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PeterMarshallFan:

--- Quote ---GSN execs have the same worry: their core audience won't even give dating or reality games a chance since that audience has already pretty much decided the shows are "Grade-A CRAP."
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The day my opinion is the same as every member of GSN's core audience is the day we have TPiR, TJW, TTD, and Bullseye all on the schedule. And now we'll have a 14 page war over the flammable properties of those shows.

I don't think I'm making a blind judgement on Fake-A-Date. I've seen a few of the other "docudatergameries" in the past---they all sucked, and Fake-A-Date looks no different than any of the others.

As for Mole and Spy-TV, I already said, I tried both and didn't care for either. So I'm hardly making a blind judgement there either.

In conclusion: I gave 'em a chance. And they were Grade-A CRAP, IMO. I'm another one who'll watch something I like and not watch what I don't. And I believe I have enough information to make the judgement that I won't like these new shows.



--- Quote ---Oh, the March 15 schedule has more than a few oldies but goodies.
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It's still missing variety. Anyone who's watched the channel for a few years has probably already seen most of the episodes of these shows. It was much better when there was a completely different schedule on weekends like when I got GSN in 2000. There was Click, Body Language, TTD, Perry CS among others in good times on the weekend schedule. Now a lot of the stuff is heavily rerun-abused, such as WoF, J!, $100k Pyramid, and most recently Hollywood Squares. At least they aquired better episodes of Love Connection.

Dbacksfan12:
[quote name=\'aaron sica\' date=\'Feb 17 2004, 09:14 AM\'] [quote name=\'CaseyAbell\' date=\'Feb 17 2004, 08:26 AM\'] Oh come on, you can't seriously believe that any significant number of  traditionalist game show fans will even give half a chance to stuff like Fake-a-Date [/quote]
I don't know about you, but I don't knock shows, no matter how bad they may sound, until I give them a try and watch them. I'm a "traditionalist game show fan", but that doesn't mean I can't like stuff like Fake-A-Date. Does that comment mean I like the show? No. Like I said, don't knock anything until you give it a fair shot. [/quote]
 While I usually give shows a modicum of a chance; this is the exception--Evan Marriott is less entertaining than reading a New YorK City phone book.

aaron sica:
[quote name=\'Dsmith\' date=\'Feb 17 2004, 01:44 PM\'] While I usually give shows a modicum of a chance; this is the exception--Evan Marriott is less entertaining than reading a New YorK City phone book. [/quote]
 I don't know - I think I'll give this one a fair shot first. Then I'll blast it. :)

CaseyAbell:
The most rerun-abused classic right now is probably Greed, because of its short run. GSN still gives it two showings a week on the March 15 schedule, but I have to think a rest is coming sooner or later. Can't really say that Jeopardy or WoF look abused to me, because I watch them very sporadically on GSN. Whenever I catch an episode, it seems brand-new. I never watch H2 at all - Bergeron, Marshall, whoever. 100K Pyramid might be a little abused from my viewpoint, though I often catch shows that look new to me.

Which, of course, is the real point. Unless you lock in on a certain show and watch almost every ep religiously, it's hard to complain about rerun abuse. I might miss my guess, but if I sat down and watched GSN straight through from the end of the infomercials to the start of the left coast prime time repeat, at least 75% of the classics would be new eps for me...or certainly episodes that I couldn't remember seeing.

The Boden originals are a different matter, because I've seen virtually all of Lingo and most of Cram and RR...all fairly recently. So they do look a little rerun-frayed around the edges, though I can still enjoy them. If I ever dropped in on Friend or Foe, though, it would look pretty shiny. But I don't plan on doing that any time soon. I've seen enough of the backstabbing-fest.

BrandonFG:
[quote name=\'Dsmith\' date=\'Feb 17 2004, 01:44 PM\'] [quote name=\'aaron sica\' date=\'Feb 17 2004, 09:14 AM\'] [quote name=\'CaseyAbell\' date=\'Feb 17 2004, 08:26 AM\'] Oh come on, you can't seriously believe that any significant number of  traditionalist game show fans will even give half a chance to stuff like Fake-a-Date [/quote]
I don't know about you, but I don't knock shows, no matter how bad they may sound, until I give them a try and watch them. I'm a "traditionalist game show fan", but that doesn't mean I can't like stuff like Fake-A-Date. Does that comment mean I like the show? No. Like I said, don't knock anything until you give it a fair shot. [/quote]
While I usually give shows a modicum of a chance; this is the exception--Evan Marriott is less entertaining than reading a New YorK City phone book. [/quote]
 Funny you mention that...on Jimmy Kimmel Live last nite, Jimmy mentioned how Evan hosted a dating show marathon on GSN (and yes, Jimmy called it "GSN" without explanation), and showed a clip of Evan talking about who better to ask to host [a dating marathon]...

To which Jimmy replied, "Um...anyone?!"

OK, you'd have to hear it for it to be humorous. :-P

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