NBC hopes to give TV watchers Amne$ia

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Well, somebody’s ripping off another one of my ideas for a reality/game show. First it was Temptation Island. They changed it just enough so I couldn’t sue, lopping off an "S" and cutting out the Motown group entirely. Now, Mark Burnett’s sold NBC a program called Amne$ia. The dollar-sign-as-“S” is, like, so me, OK? Ditto the basic concept of a game show based on memory. In Burnett’s version, contestants win by correctly recalling details from their pasts.

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