Buzzr Q2 2025

[Darnits]

I fear we may have to cancel "Words Have Meanings" after that post, as the conceit of the show has been disproven.

We had a good run.  No regrets.

At least there now is a timeslot open for an expanded hour-long Numberwang!

[Blanquepage]

6/16 - Stuff gets moved around all over the place, but not seeing much fresh stuff that week.

8:30-10: WML? (Bruner)
10-Noon: TTTT '73
Noon: Family Feud '70s (different years each day, some might be fresh?)
12:30: Concentration '77 (starting at 128-1)
1-3: MG '75
3-5: TPiR
5-6: PYL '84
6:00: Child's Play (#84, I believe the earliest BUZZR's aired)
6:30-7:30: Classic Concentration '87
7:30: $oTC '85
8-10: Supermarket Sweep
10-Midnight: Temptation

Hasn't it been a while for series' to get solo airings, without another episode following it? Anyhow, kind of a "meh" lineup for me.

[Casey Buck]

Adam Nedeff has posted on a thread on his Facebook page, which might explain why Lost & Found hasn't shown many pilots lately:

If Buzzr ever wanted to show an episode that never aired, Fremantle’s lawyers required them to #1, see if the contestants got paid, and #2, if the contestants weren’t paid, Buzzr had show that they had made a good-faith effort to track down the contestants and pay them whatever they were credited, or demonstrate that they were unable to track down the contestants.

That actually makes things like unaired pilots incredibly complicated for Buzzr. The contestants for unaired pilots come in with the understanding that “We’re not REALLY going to pay you the grand prize, we’re just going to pay you a couple hundred bucks and this is never going to air,” but if Fremantle doesn’t still have the decades-old paperwork demonstrating that the contestants agreed to that, they might actually still be obligated to pay off.

I understand that Buzzr fans might be disappointed by the underwhelming lineup for Lost and Fun this year, but there’s the complication—it might actually cost them $25,000 or so to air a certain pilot.

[Blanquepage]

An uninformed question about that legal stuff: does it include only posting it on YouTube and never broadcasting it on the actual channel?

[Mr. Matté]

When GSN aired the pilots they did, would they have had to do a similar thing or because they're cable (vs. Buzzr which is over air broadcast network), they wouldn't need to? IIRC, GSN just had a disclaimer saying "This pilot show could be rigged."

[JasonA1]

You're right that GSN did such a disclaimer -- on the Game Show Turkeys marathon anyway, not the Elvira one. But Adam's point is specific to Fremantle. It's like how some networks/entities don't care if you use movie quotes in questions without clearance, and other places stay away, rather than take a chance. Apparently Fremantle's view -- likely bolstered by the fact it's their network airing their properties, rather than licensing from other sources -- is more risk-averse.

-Jason

[rwalker]

I think they are trying to avoid the legal mess that ABC has with that 500 grand win of  Show me the Money. Gsn almost aired that, and the show was pulled after airing  2 days in reruns. Word was Gsn would have had to cough up that half million

[MikeK]

He eventually got paid.

[Ian Wallis]

For regular series episodes, how exactly did they keep track of what aired and what may not have?

Case in point:  when Match Game 79 was cancelled, CBS aired the last two or three weeks haphazardly, skipping episodes of various weeks.  On one of the last episodes that we saw on GSN, they mentioned the air-date was supposed to be May 10th.  Of course, we never got there.  Would CBS have marked each individual tape indicating whether they actually aired it or not?

[Sodboy13]

6/16 - Stuff gets moved around all over the place, but not seeing much fresh stuff that week.

8:30-10: WML? (Bruner)
10-Noon: TTTT '73
Noon: Family Feud '70s (different years each day, some might be fresh?)
12:30: Concentration '77 (starting at 128-1)
1-3: MG '75
3-5: TPiR
5-6: PYL '84
6:00: Child's Play (#84, I believe the earliest BUZZR's aired)
6:30-7:30: Classic Concentration '87
7:30: $oTC '85
8-10: Supermarket Sweep
10-Midnight: Temptation

Hasn't it been a while for series' to get solo airings, without another episode following it? Anyhow, kind of a "meh" lineup for me.

Who in God's name wants two hours of US Temptation every single night?

[ivoryman1986]

As for Child's Play, #083 was the earliest Buzzr aired. Supermarket Sweep is pretty much the only show that gets fresh episodes that week. Buzzr had aired #100 of Child's Play at first but Buzzr nuked it out of its rerun rotation later on and Amazon Prime skipped #100.

[TimK2003]

6/16 - Stuff gets moved around all over the place, but not seeing much fresh stuff that week.

8:30-10: WML? (Bruner)
10-Noon: TTTT '73
Noon: Family Feud '70s (different years each day, some might be fresh?)
12:30: Concentration '77 (starting at 128-1)
1-3: MG '75
3-5: TPiR
5-6: PYL '84
6:00: Child's Play (#84, I believe the earliest BUZZR's aired)
6:30-7:30: Classic Concentration '87
7:30: $oTC '85
8-10: Supermarket Sweep
10-Midnight: Temptation

Hasn't it been a while for series' to get solo airings, without another episode following it? Anyhow, kind of a "meh" lineup for me.

Who in God's name wants two hours of US Temptation every single night?

Insomniacs.