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Video game programs coming to GSN
Timsterino:
I said it in the other thread and I will say it here. I think the news today stinks. I like to play video games but do I want to watch shows about them? No.
I can honestly see GSN becoming \"The Game Station Network\". The reality of it is, the only thing we can do is complain and not watch. I will do both when this \"Video Game\" garbage is on.
Tim
jalman:
--- Quote ---I have to say it's getting a little redundant to see the same dozen or so voices raised in protest any time GSN tries something different.
They're not going to \"alienate loyal viewers\" any more than ESPN alienates football fans when they air women's bowling, or NBC alienates fans of E/R when they air \"Friends\". GSN cannot survive by running a program schedule that constantly caters to the same small audience of devotees any more than MTV could have survived by remaining a 24-hour music video service. But you guys think GSN has some grand responsibility to preserve and rerun the same programming over and over and over.
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ESPN focuses on sports (football and bowling are sports) and NBC airs programming w/o confining itself to one genre (ER isn't the flagship of some medical drama channel).
No, I don't want GSN to become the \"collectable old shows worth hoarding\" network, and I don't rip my hair after knowing of every announcement they make regarding programming changes. I appreciate their having non-classics and documentaries (even Naturally Stoned) about game shows in their efforts to expand farther than the \"we air old, old shows\"-type channel.
I worry that they are throwing crap on the wall just to be the \"it\" station. If their new shows end up doing great ratings, fine. No big deal.
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You do realize that they're not going to make any new episode of Combs Feud, don't you?
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You don't say? I thought that color episode of Andy Griffith on TV Land was brand new, too. I have no hatred of the GSN originals.
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If you don't want to watch the new shows, don't. If enough people don't, they'll drop those shows and try something else. My impression (based on a pretty consistant past history) is that the same people who complain about this awful programming move will somehow be able to tell us every detail about the shows, including the precise moment when reruns start. But of course you won't be watching.
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Good for me, then. I don't have GSN at the moment. I'm also not the type who'll moan, groan, and pronounce doomsday every time there's plans that a GSN original airs the dreaded all-celebrity episode.
Or complain that MTV no longer airs videos.
whampyl03:
Here's a snippet of a moderators reply on the GSN boards in a reply to the overwhelmingly negative posts about the subject...
--- Quote ---You think news on TV you think CNN.
You think music on TV you think MTV.
You think games on TV you think ?. Now wouldn't it be nice to say Game Show Network?
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Huh? I don't know about you, but when I think of games on TV, I think of G4, when I think of GAME SHOWS I think of GAME SHOW NETWORK!
Personally, I'm crushed. I've never been so dissapointed and upset at GSN in my entire life.
I'll just say the same thing I said on the GSN boards...
I can stand the speed ups, I can stand the split screens, I can stand the blue bar, I can stand the current bad originals, I can stand the lack of TTD and TJW, and I could probably stand Games accross America, BUT I CAN'T STAND THIS!
Shredder:
[quote name=\'catnap1972\' date=\'Jun 30 2003, 08:38 PM\']
--- Quote ---These people aren't doing you any kind of "service". They're not interested in "preservation of the genre" or any happy warm crap like that. They want eyes to watch their commercials. You are fooling yourself if you think any different.
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If they (or any other network) could hook you into watching 21 hours of commercials a day, you're damn skippy they would.
They just haven't figured out how (yet) [/quote]
Too Late. RNN already beat you too it :). Used to be a 24/7 informercial channel
Thad Dixon:
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--- Quote ---If they (or any other network) could hook you into watching 21 hours of commercials a day, you're damn skippy they would.
They just haven't figured out how (yet)
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Too Late. RNN already beat you too it :). Used to be a 24/7 informercial channel
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Just curious, but what does RNN stand for? I don't get that channel.
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