According to Zap2It for July 15th and 16th:
*Super Password will air at 9am; remains at 11am
*Press Your Luck moves to 9:30am
*Sale of the Century moves to 10:00am
*The $100,000 Pyramid will air at 11:30am
*Richard Karn\'s Family Feud will air at 12pm and 12:30pm
*The Pyramid (GSN) will air at 2:30pm
*8:00am and 8:30am remains Match Game
*The $25,000 Pyramid remains at 10:30am
Looks like both versions of Lingo bounce off the schedule again. Plus, nothing from Zap2It hinting there will be any new version/episode pick-ups.
I\'m all for an extra Super Password a day.
My thoughts exactly.
*Love Triangle replaces Chain Reaction weekend mornings at 10:30am
The hell? Of all the random failed originals to dig out of mothballs, *this* is what turns up?
If it were a game show we would be wondering here if GSN were planning new episodes.
*Love Triangle replaces Chain Reaction weekend mornings at 10:30am
The hell? Of all the random failed originals to dig out of mothballs, *this* is what turns up?
GSN never lets its \"babies\" die and will keep pushing them one way or another, if they can.
Why more Karn Feud? Couldn\'t they, you know, lease a season of Dawson and/or Combs to fill that hour, if they MUST have more Feud? Or do they too now believe that no one will watch unless there\'s double, nay, single entendre questions?
Hard to believe it is at most 11 years old already!
Another thought...if they have so much faith in Chain Reaction to give it an evening block, why not lease the Cullen version too (it\'s one season, so.....)?
Another thought...if they have so much faith in Chain Reaction to give it an evening block, why not lease the Cullen version too (it\'s one season, so.....)?
Because that costs money.
Why would you lease episodes of a show that is 30 years old and hardly has the name recognition of say, Pyramid?Another thought...if they have so much faith in Chain Reaction to give it an evening block, why not lease the Cullen version too (it\'s one season, so.....)?
Another thought...if they have so much faith in Chain Reaction to give it an evening block, why not lease the Cullen version too (it\'s one season, so.....)?
Why would you lease episodes of a show that is 30 years old and hardly has the name recognition of say, Pyramid?
Just because you want to see more classics doesn\'t make it a good business decision.
It\'s sorta like running the Woolery Lingo instead of the Engvall Lingo. The older episodes are much better thatn the newer ones.
It\'s sorta like running the Woolery Lingo instead of the Engvall Lingo. The older episodes are much better thatn the newer ones.
Except it\'s not, because you already own both series and don\'t have to lease one versus getting the other for free.
He wasn\'t claiming it was a good business decision.Just because you want to see more classics doesn\'t make it a good business decision.
He wasn\'t claiming it was a good business decision.
Actually, isn\'t that a base assumption that we should be able to work from when people are having \"thoughts\" about how GSN should conduct themselves, that the \"thinker\" feels it\'s a solid business decision? Is it not reasonable for people to run their ideas through that very basic sanity check before they post them? (For serious suggestions, of course. There\'s nothing wrong with \"I know it doesn\'t make one iota of financial sense, but wouldn\'t it be awesome if they ran a Time Machine marathon?\" so long as you make it clear that you understand why it isn\'t gonna happen.) \'Cuz otherwise we\'re a stone\'s throw away from Thad Dixon again, and that\'s good for nobody.
\'Cuz if not, I\'m just gonna whip up a keyboard macro for \"Because that would be a piss-poor business decision\" and save myself a lot of time.
Sure, but at the same time discussion is going to dry up every time somebody says \"wouldn\'t it be great if GSN did a thing?\" and the answer is \"they won\'t because it costs money to do that.\"
Right. My point is that not nearly as many discussions would dry up if the OP would demonstrate that very basic understanding in the first place.
(And, actually, \"wouldn\'t it be great if?\" is a totally valid construction for that. But you will agree that we get far more \"Hey, here\'s an idea\"s and \"You know, they should\"s, and those are the posts I am referring to.
but Sale of the Century slid under the limbo bar.
That\'s true. But GSN also has no analog to $otC that is a free alternative.
That said, Bill Cullen > Dylan Lane in the same sense that Dick Clark > everyone else, so there *might* be an argument there. But I\'m not convinced that GSN knows that or that it would grab the audience the same way $otC (surprisingly, delightedly so) seems to have.
But part of their model should also be picking up new stuff, whether that\'s Greed, Win Lose or Draw or Pyramid: 2002.
Why do you hate Pyramid so much? :)
Here\'s the deal: a network that deals mostly in slightly-used programming (whether it\'s GSN or TBS) is going to obtain new and different shows to shake up their lineup when they see that viewership of what\'s there is stagnating. They are not leasing a season of Pyramid; they are leasing X00,000 pairs of eyeballs for $Y00,000. If that X/Y ratio isn\'t a number they can live with, they shouldn\'t do it, bottom line. It\'s awfully hard to come up with a competitive ratio when you have one that returns a divide-by-zero error.
Hey, Chain Reaction didn\'t last in primetime, at least on Monday. Effective tonight, they\'re already switching back to O\'Hurley Feud from 8-10pm.
Chain wasn\'t going to be every weeknight, just on Fridays. It\'s still there on the page you linked.
If anything I would strongly suspect it\'s significantly more expensive.