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BillCullen1

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America Says starts June 18 on GSN
« on: May 21, 2018, 04:36:33 PM »
GSN is now airing promos with this start date. Will be seen at 5 pm ET. Be there, aloha.

BrandonFG

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Re: America Says starts June 18 on GSN
« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2018, 05:17:54 PM »
Hadn't heard of this one. Here's a little more on the show.

Including this one, how many GSN originals do we have in first-run? Assuming Idiotest, Divided, Winsanity, and Snap Decision still air, that's close to a half-dozen once America Says premieres.
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Re: America Says starts June 18 on GSN
« Reply #2 on: May 22, 2018, 10:50:40 PM »
I believe Divided and Winsanity are the only other GSN originals in first run at this time. Snap Decision is off the GSN schedule as well as Idiotest. The latter is surprising.

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Re: America Says starts June 18 on GSN
« Reply #3 on: May 22, 2018, 10:58:56 PM »
So when GSN takes a break airing Family Feud, you can try this Family Feud knockoff!

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Re: America Says starts June 18 on GSN
« Reply #4 on: May 22, 2018, 11:11:40 PM »
So when GSN takes a break airing Family Feud
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Re: America Says starts June 18 on GSN
« Reply #5 on: May 25, 2018, 10:20:22 PM »
Including this one, how many GSN originals do we have in first-run? Assuming Idiotest, Divided, Winsanity, and Snap Decision still air, that's close to a half-dozen once America Says premieres.
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Idiotest was turfed in a slash-and-burn a year or so ago.
Divided and Winsanity air at three in the morning Pacific Time.
I do not see Snap Decision on the schedule.

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Re: America Says starts June 18 on GSN
« Reply #6 on: June 18, 2018, 11:33:17 AM »
The day has come. Actually GSN had a sneak preview of this show on Sunday night. Similar to Family Feud but with a twist. Four members on each team.

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Re: America Says starts June 18 on GSN
« Reply #7 on: June 18, 2018, 12:16:25 PM »
John Michael Higgins is the character actor that you hire when your situation comedy does a game show episode.  He's your go-to guy when you want someone to play an insincere empty suit.  He's probably a decent guy to get all the work he has, and he might be just fine at this, but the clips just have an unreal quality to me because I expect him to be in character.
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Re: America Says starts June 18 on GSN
« Reply #8 on: June 19, 2018, 11:23:16 AM »
So did anyone tune in to see this? What do you think? I think it's okay.

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Re: America Says starts June 18 on GSN
« Reply #9 on: June 19, 2018, 01:04:29 PM »
John Michael Higgins is the character actor that you hire when your situation comedy does a game show episode.  He's your go-to guy when you want someone to play an insincere empty suit.

Although I thought he did a more than passable David Letterman in The Late Shift.
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Re: America Says starts June 18 on GSN
« Reply #10 on: June 19, 2018, 07:30:23 PM »
Looked like a sitcom parody of FF.
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Re: America Says starts June 18 on GSN
« Reply #11 on: June 19, 2018, 09:41:54 PM »
If you can stay awake to the last act the bonus game feels very familiar as it Tag-Team Pass the Buck. The main game has lots of playability but it feels closer to Hot Potato than Family Feud. The host is there, and the prize money is $15,000 split four ways. Better than some of their recent fare but utterly forgettable. C minus.

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Re: America Says starts June 18 on GSN
« Reply #12 on: June 19, 2018, 09:57:23 PM »
I was very disappointed to watch the sneak preview and see that it was was same round three times with no deviation. If you're going to rip off Family Feud and Hot Potato at least do something different. Just comes off as so boring. Ugh.

I guess I should just be happy that GSN is still in the business of making originals, but man, I didn't think they'd go for "clone of the show we're already rerunning into the ground."
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Re: America Says starts June 18 on GSN
« Reply #13 on: June 19, 2018, 10:10:29 PM »
I guess I should just be happy that GSN is still in the business of making originals
Given that they let The Chase USA lapse, basically paved over Idiotest, Emogenius and Chain Reaction and banished Winsanity and Divided to the middle of the night, I guess this is one tiptoe in the right direction.

The Bob Stewart pilot Caught in the Act starring Jack Clark would be an easy game to replicate and one that five-nines worth of their viewing audience would not have heard of. Plus prizes like 50 Chinese Dinners would be miles better than "I'm going to give you a bonus thousand points!"
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Re: America Says starts June 18 on GSN
« Reply #14 on: June 20, 2018, 11:07:00 AM »
Plus prizes like 50 Chinese Dinners

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