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GSN re-teams with National Lampoon for new show

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daveromanjr:
[quote name=\'PeterMarshallFan\' date=\'Nov 30 2003, 04:42 PM\'] Personally, what kinda worries me is the "Olive Oil Wrestling." [/quote]
I for one hope they use virgin

olive oil



Wow that really is bad... nevermind.

inturnaround:
[quote name=\'ilb4ever2000\' date=\'Nov 30 2003, 03:04 PM\'] Seems GSN really HAS given up on new traditional game shows... [/quote]
 I don't think that's fair at all. GSN has shown that they are interested in first run game shows. It's just so hard, I think, to catch lightning in a bottle. Lingo is a far cry from Super Decades or Inquizition or Throut and Neck or Burt Luddin's Love Buffet (or DJ Games or Extreme Gong...).

GSN is still a young network looking to expand carriage. The best way they feel they can do that is to not look like a rerun channel and to make a commitment to original programming of all sorts however unusual it may be.

I don't think GSN's rejection of Scrabble Challenge has anything to do with anything other than the game itself. I'm sure GSN doesn't want to be stuck with another Funny Money- making all these episodes that no one really wants to watch and then having to burn them off quickly.

A new show is a big commitment for the channel and I'm sure there are a few in development that haven't been announced. Maybe one will be the next Lingo for GSN. (Me, I'm hoping GSN goes for a quizzer that is what WinTuition should have been)

whampyl03:
This sounds downright classless and nauseating.  At least the entire series isn't airing on GSN.  Thankfully, It only sounds like we'll have to put up with this once every year. (Not counting re-broadcasts.)

clemon79:
[quote name=\'whampyl03\' date=\'Nov 30 2003, 04:09 PM\'] This sounds downright classless and nauseating. [/quote]
 Because, you know, people dressing up as cucumbers to win a living room set is the epitome of cerebral television.

Or people being coated in grass shavings because their little light wound up on the wrong spot.

Get the hell OFF the high horse, people, these are game shows.

DrBear:
[quote name=\'PeterMarshallFan\' date=\'Nov 30 2003, 04:42 PM\'] Personally, what kinda worries me is the "Olive Oil Wrestling." [/quote]
 They'll probably wrestle an inflatable Olive Oyl.

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