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BrandonFG:
Was over at rec.arts.tv, and came across the ratings for what I believe is the week of 9/29, and found the following:

GAME/RELATIONSHIP
Wheel of Fortune: 8.6 (+ 6), Jeopardy: 6.6 (+ 2), Who Wants to Be a
Millionaire: 3.2 (+39), Family Feud: 2.6 (+30), Hollywood Squares: 2.2
(no change), Pyramid: 2.2 (+16), Blind Date and ElimiDate: 1.5 (-12
each), 5th Wheel: 1.1 (-27), Extreme Dating: 1.0

This looks really good for Millionaire, Feud, and Pyramid. H2 I'm not so sure on, but I wouldn't be surprised to see Feud pull a 3.0 by mid-season.

Matt Ottinger:
The Millionaire improvement makes sense in year two, as people start to discover the program on their local stations.  But the 30% improvement (that's been pretty consistant week to week) for Family Feud is remarkable this late in the show's run.  Karn might be looking at a Year Three after all.

urbanpreppie05:
I think it's cause people are looking at Feud now and saying "Wow...Family Feud looks different now...let's see what they did, or Hey, there's that guy from Home Improvement hosting Family feud! Let me see what's going on here..."

Something like that, I suppose...:-)

uncamark:
[quote name=\'fostergray82\' date=\'Oct 20 2003, 10:31 AM\']Was over at rec.arts.tv, and came across the ratings for what I believe is the week of 9/29, and found the following:

GAME/RELATIONSHIP
Wheel of Fortune: 8.6 (+ 6), Jeopardy: 6.6 (+ 2), Who Wants to Be a
Millionaire: 3.2 (+39), Family Feud: 2.6 (+30), Hollywood Squares: 2.2
(no change), Pyramid: 2.2 (+16), Blind Date and ElimiDate: 1.5 (-12
each), 5th Wheel: 1.1 (-27), Extreme Dating: 1.0

This looks really good for Millionaire, Feud, and Pyramid. H2 I'm not so sure on, but I wouldn't be surprised to see Feud pull a 3.0 by mid-season.[/quote]
This was "Pyramid"'s first uptick week of the season--but what an uptick.

"H2" has gone up, it's gone down, it's static (although I believe its one up week was John Ritter's week).  It's way too early to pronounce any kind of sentence for it (particularly since it just had a time change in Chicago).  They should hope for a good November sweeps, since that at least will get KW to push the show hard during NATPE.

The interesting part is the immense dropoff of relationship shows as an entire genre--and the general upturn in traditional game shows (last season, "ElimiDate" was the only gainer in the game/relationship genre).  That's very good news.

chris319:
With the exception of Millionaire, the traditional game formats are all 30 years old or close to it; much older in the cases of Jeopardy! and Squares. If you accept the notion that Milionaire is actually a derivative of $64,000 Question, it's much older.

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