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Now that GSN is setting in the West...
uncamark:
[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' date=\'Dec 17 2003, 08:07 PM\'][quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Dec 17 2003, 07:48 PM\']
I certainly think so. There was an attempt at a Games Channel c. 1992 or 1993 which would have included interactive stuff like seen on FAM in the mid 90s, plus LMAD, Name that Tune(Lange), Split Second(Hall), Crosswits(Sparks), and Face the Music which were seen on FAM in the same time frame, but it never got off the ground.
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In a sense, it did get off the ground. I figured the FAM block was an on-air lab to test the viability of such a channel. One thing that was up for grabs was the Goodson library, it seemed the FAM effort was abandoned when Goodson went with GSN.[/quote]
That's exactly what happened--the industry opinion was that whoever got G-T would make it to air. Sony got the G-T license (and had MGP involved briefly as a co-owner before the launch) and GSN went up, while Pat Robertson's channel died stillborn.
Starkman:
I think it wouldnt be tried for a while and if it was It probs would contain alot more originals in the beginning.
Or someone may bring back the classic game show blocks, a la lucky day USA (which indeed had a good mix of stuff aside from free 4 all and the 90 knock disasters)
But indeed without the sony owneds you can have a decent lineup if you wished, you do have (assuming this is 5 years later and GSN has ditched all contracts) you can have a schedule that looks like this
Cullen Pyramid
GT shows to fill in the gaps
PYL
LMAD
The Big money quizzers of the late 90s
Wolpert (start drooling whew! fans shopping spree wouldnt be too bad either)
Sweep
NTT Lange and FTM
Stone Stanley (runs and hides, nahh, styd was a commercial hit and I would Not mind seeing fun house again for the kiddies)
Marshall Squares
The USA Network game shows minus 80s CR
Grundy
Add some originals and id say thats a pretty decent schedule probs more to the housewife crowd but not bad, definatly some shows that can definatly be called classics and not too many holes. But id first expect a reversion to the game show rerun blocks of USA and FAM or something like GAS at Night before seeing another GSN any time soon :(
Dbacksfan12:
[quote name=\'Starkman\' date=\'Dec 19 2003, 09:47 AM\'] I think it wouldnt be tried for a while and if it was It probs would contain alot more originals in the beginning.
Or someone may bring back the classic game show blocks, a la lucky day USA (which indeed had a good mix of stuff aside from free 4 all and the 90 knock disasters)
But indeed without the sony owneds you can have a decent lineup if you wished, you do have (assuming this is 5 years later and GSN has ditched all contracts) you can have a schedule that looks like this
Cullen Pyramid
GT shows to fill in the gaps
PYL
LMAD
The Big money quizzers of the late 90s
Wolpert (start drooling whew! fans shopping spree wouldnt be too bad either)
Sweep
NTT Lange and FTM
Stone Stanley (runs and hides, nahh, styd was a commercial hit and I would Not mind seeing fun house again for the kiddies)
Marshall Squares
The USA Network game shows minus 80s CR
Grundy
Add some originals and id say thats a pretty decent schedule probs more to the housewife crowd but not bad, definatly some shows that can definatly be called classics and not too many holes. But id first expect a reversion to the game show rerun blocks of USA and FAM or something like GAS at Night before seeing another GSN any time soon :( [/quote]
Is it at all possible for you to condense your posts? In addition, the poor grammar is the worst I've seen on the board. Anyhow, I really don't think this would work--especially since that a major corp. can't pick these shows up NOW due to money reasons. You really think a start up network could afford them?
I think not...
HYHYBT:
This may be yet another silly question, but here goes anyway: can Viacom, or whoever they might sell or lease to, really run Bill Cullen's "The $25,000 Pyramid" without Sony's cooperation? If Sony owns the name, I mean.
Matt Ottinger:
[quote name=\'HYHYBT\' date=\'Dec 20 2003, 08:16 AM\'] This may be yet another silly question, but here goes anyway: can Viacom, or whoever they might sell or lease to, really run Bill Cullen's "The $25,000 Pyramid" without Sony's cooperation? If Sony owns the name, I mean. [/quote]
People a lot smarter than me can probably be more specific, but the simplistic answer to your question is that Viacom probably CAN run the old Bill Cullen shows. Sony has the rights to the name and the format, so Viacom couldn't go and make their own NEW version of The $25,000 Pyramid (especially right now) but they ought to be able to do whatever they want with the episodes they own.
Of course, it could be a lot mroe complicated than that, depending on how the original contracts were written.
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