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The Game Show Forum => Game Show Channels & Networks => Topic started by: AmazingErikZ on February 01, 2004, 04:07:00 PM
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What I mean by this is, sinceGSN is the way it is today, with mostly newer shows and recent reruns, shouldn't they create a sister network for GSN devoted to classic game shows?
I mean, since Cartoon Network has Boomerang and Nickelodeon has TV Land, why can't GSN do the same?
Considering starting in March, there won't be anymore Family Feud reruns in the daily 5-5:30 slot. Plus, who knows what'll happen with the daily 6:30 Match Game in the near future.
I would certainly want a GSN Classic channel. It would be fantastic to see more of the classics again. What do you all think?
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Good LORD, great minds think alike. I posted the same idea what couldn't be more than thirty seconds after you!
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[quote name=\'AmazingErikZ\' date=\'Feb 1 2004, 02:07 PM\'] What I mean by this is, sinceGSN is the way it is today, with mostly newer shows and recent reruns, shouldn't they create a sister network for GSN devoted to classic game shows?
I mean, since Cartoon Network has Boomerang and Nickelodeon has TV Land, why can't GSN do the same?
Considering starting in March, there won't be anymore Family Feud reruns in the daily 5-5:30 slot. Plus, who knows what'll happen with the daily 6:30 Match Game in the near future.
I would certainly want a GSN Classic channel. It would be fantastic to see more of the classics again. What do you all think? [/quote]
And you clearly haven't been reading this board, because we've rehashed this topic about 400 times with the same conclusion: Love to see it, not gonna happen.
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I guess I'll rephrase my comment. Great minds think alike...and so do ours!
Incidentally, has it been confirmed that it won't happen?
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[quote name=\'AmazingErikZ\' date=\'Feb 1 2004, 03:07 PM\'] Considering starting in March, there won't be anymore Family Feud reruns in the daily 5-5:30 slot. [/quote]
Horse hockey (which is a really amusing sport, if you've never seen it). Quick look at the schedule on Adlink shows that the Feud/Feud/Pyramid/MG block is held completely intact once again (That block, despite all the other sched changes, has been held in THAT formation in THOSe slots since May 2001, IIRC. That's 3 years with those 4 shows in those slots.)
Anyway, as much as I'd love a GSN Classics channel, it won't happen. Why? Because TV Networks hate us, and program their entire existences around making us upset. (And, since a growing number of people can't tell the difference, YES, that was sarcasm. I just love it when I have to explain sarcasm to folks)
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Erm...it didn't work for the last 9 years which is why they're changing it now...
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[quote name=\'tommycharles\' date=\'Feb 1 2004, 06:14 PM\'] Erm...it didn't work for the last 9 years which is why they're changing it now... [/quote]
Didn't work?
GSN has now been in the black for, depending on whose info you go by, for either the last 2, or the last 3, financial years. Ratings now, are back even with their peaks (which were incurred when GSN tried to go heavy-handed on Originals, and their subsequent reruns). The network, as a whole, is the strongest it's been since Late 2002/Early 2003, right before they started messing with what works.
Why they're changing it now, I don't know.
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[quote name=\'Seth Thrasher\' date=\'Feb 1 2004, 04:37 PM\'] Anyway, as much as I'd love a GSN Classics channel, it won't happen. Why? Because TV Networks hate us, and program their entire existences around making us upset. (And, since a growing number of people can't tell the difference, YES, that was sarcasm. I just love it when I have to explain sarcasm to folks) [/quote]
I can't see a GSN Classics channel either, but I disagree with the reasoning. In reality, contrary to popular belief, programmers do not really want to watch the programs--they want us to watch the commercials so we can buy the products so advertisers can give them the money it takes to survive.
Horse hockey? I see a future edition to Games Across America in the making.
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[quote name=\'GS Warehouse\' date=\'Feb 1 2004, 09:03 PM\'] [quote name=\'Seth Thrasher\' date=\'Feb 1 2004, 04:37 PM\'] Anyway, as much as I'd love a GSN Classics channel, it won't happen. Why? Because TV Networks hate us, and program their entire existences around making us upset. (And, since a growing number of people can't tell the difference, YES, that was sarcasm. I just love it when I have to explain sarcasm to folks) [/quote]
I can't see a GSN Classics channel either, but I disagree with the reasoning. In reality, contrary to popular belief, programmers do not really want to watch the programs--they want us to watch the commercials so we can buy the products so advertisers can give them the money it takes to survive.
Horse hockey? I see a future edition to Games Across America in the making. [/quote]
Of course, therein lies a logic of reasoning that networks REALLY should listen to their viewers DIRECTLY, when possible, rather than advertisers, focus groups, etc. Cause, at the end of the day, we're the one buyign the products. SO, if we're not watching, who is? These make believe people that the advertisers and Mr. Nielsen convince networks exist?
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Feb 1 2004, 04:10 PM\'] And you clearly haven't been reading this board, because we've rehashed this topic about 400 times with the same conclusion: Love to see it, not gonna happen. [/quote]
Although, we'd all love to be proven wrong. :)
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I wonder why no one has come up with a game show that quizzes folks on the recall of commercials? Something like "You just saw eight commercials. In the fourth commercial, what famous landmark did the lady in the Rascal visit?" The commercials would be part of the program.
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[quote name=\'whoserman\' date=\'Feb 1 2004, 02:11 PM\'] I guess I'll rephrase my comment. Great minds think alike...and so do ours!
Incidentally, has it been confirmed that it won't happen? [/quote]
No. It also hasn't been confirmed that Bob Hope has risen from the dead. Give it UP.
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I wonder why no one has come up with a game show that quizzes folks on the recall of commercials? Something like "You just saw eight commercials. In the fourth commercial, what famous landmark did the lady in the Rascal visit?" The commercials would be part of the program.
Personally, I'd like to see a cable channel devoted to 24 hours of commercials - and have all the commercials move to that channel because the number on regular TV now is getting to be annoyingly WAY too much.
OK, I'll wake up from my dream now...
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We already have such a network. It's called GSN.
Taken a peek at the schedule lately? It's almost all old game shows, often REAL old game shows. The GSN Originals board doesn't have a thing to talk about right now except Stacey.
Things get slightly less decrepit on March 15, but old game shows still dominate the schedule.
Funny thing, the old shows still have some ratings life in them, if the January numbers are to be believed. Will GSN bail out of the non-traditional stuff if the household numbers go south?
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[quote name=\'CaseyAbell\' date=\'Feb 2 2004, 09:28 AM\'] We already have such a network. It's called GSN.
Taken a peek at the schedule lately? It's almost all old game shows, often REAL old game shows. The GSN Originals board doesn't have a thing to talk about right now except Stacey.
Things get slightly less decrepit on March 15, but old game shows still dominate the schedule.
Funny thing, the old shows still have some ratings life in them, if the January numbers are to be believed. Will GSN bail out of the non-traditional stuff if the household numbers go south? [/quote]
GSN will probably never totally abandon the old shows.
I would suspect if this experiment fails, that you would see more old shows taking their place.
GSN thinks they are giving us what we want to see.
Interesting to see how this turns out.
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[quote name=\'cmjb13\' date=\'Feb 2 2004, 10:15 AM\']
GSN will probably never totally abandon the old shows.
I would suspect if this experiment fails, that you would see more old shows taking their place.
GSN thinks they are giving us what we want to see.
Interesting to see how this turns out. [/quote]
ANother thought: When does the license to air G-T shows expire? I have to wonder if they'll just renew the rights for Feud and Match Game when it does expire. My guess is the license to air WLOD has expired, and since it just was never a huge success, they didn't bother to renew it or get the rest of the run.
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If the WLoD license has expired, GSN better have a good lawyer. It's on the schedule for the next month and a half.
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[quote name=\'CaseyAbell\' date=\'Feb 2 2004, 10:48 AM\'] If the WLoD license has expired, GSN better have a good lawyer. It's on the schedule for the next month and a half. [/quote]
Maybe it expires in April, as that will be two years since it premiered. Maybe they're just taking it off a month early to enhance their schedule...
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If a lot of licenses for old shows expire in April, I don't see how GSN can avoid renewing them, with the obvious exception of WLoD. Their March 15 schedule is dominated by old game shows. No way they can fill all those hours if they let a bunch of licenses expire.
I've seen some promos for the upcoming Valentine's Day LC marthon. GSN has clearly licensed some eps besides the 1991-92 episodes they've ground into dust. (Funny to see Chuck with longer hair. Looks like the old WoF days.) I don't know if this is a one-time license or if GSN will put those different episodes into their regular rotation.
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[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Feb 2 2004, 10:29 AM\'] [quote name=\'cmjb13\' date=\'Feb 2 2004, 10:15 AM\']
GSN will probably never totally abandon the old shows.
I would suspect if this experiment fails, that you would see more old shows taking their place.
GSN thinks they are giving us what we want to see.
Interesting to see how this turns out. [/quote]
ANother thought: When does the license to air G-T shows expire? I have to wonder if they'll just renew the rights for Feud and Match Game when it does expire. My guess is the license to air WLOD has expired, and since it just was never a huge success, they didn't bother to renew it or get the rest of the run. [/quote]
IIRC, per the professor the G-T renewal was May 2003.
How long it was for is unknown.
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[quote name=\'CaseyAbell\' date=\'Feb 2 2004, 11:04 AM\'] If a lot of licenses for old shows expire in April, I don't see how GSN can avoid renewing them, with the obvious exception of WLoD. Their March 15 schedule is dominated by old game shows. No way they can fill all those hours if they let a bunch of licenses expire.
I've seen some promos for the upcoming Valentine's Day LC marthon. GSN has clearly licensed some eps besides the 1991-92 episodes they've ground into dust. (Funny to see Chuck with longer hair. Looks like the old WoF days.) I don't know if this is a one-time license or if GSN will put those different episodes into their regular rotation. [/quote]
I'm just speculating WLOD's license may lapse and they aren't renewing it. It wouldn't be the first time GSN let a show's license lapse if true, they did not renew TPIR in April 2000 when its license ran out. ANd back in 1997 in their early, freewheeling days before they were in many homes, they let the license for the other Goodson-Todman shows lapse, not renewing it for six months(which is where the term Dark Period came about)
As far as LC, all 11 years of the show are available to show as reruns. Since those episodes in the promo look to be from the 80s, there will be end of show fee plugs either cut out or become a victim to split screen credits. The 80s LC featured Rod Roddy and Gene Wood early on, and later Johnny Gilbert as the announcer. John Cervanka AKA Burt Luddin became the announcer in 1989, and was there through the show's end in 1994. John returned for the first half of the 1998-99 season's remake of LC, and his brother (I think his name is Jay) did the second half of that run.
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[quote name=\'cmjb13\' date=\'Feb 2 2004, 08:15 AM\'] GSN thinks they are giving us what we want to see.
Interesting to see how this turns out. [/quote]
Not quite. The more appropriate statement would be "GSN is giving us what they think people will watch." They know DAMN well what WE want to see. :)
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GSN now holds the license to ALL the Love Connection eps? I thought they just picked up a batch of the 1991-92 shows.
It's a guilty pleasure of mine, so I wouldn't mind seeing some of the 1980s episodes.
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[quote name=\'CaseyAbell\' date=\'Feb 2 2004, 10:58 AM\'] GSN now holds the license to ALL the Love Connection eps? I thought they just picked up a batch of the 1991-92 shows.
It's a guilty pleasure of mine, so I wouldn't mind seeing some of the 1980s episodes. [/quote]
GSN may or may not have the license to show all 11 years (it could be just five years, for all we know--unless someone's made a phone call to Culver City for confirmation). But what we do know is that there will be a marathon of "previously unseen on GSN" eps of LC on Valentine's Day. Whether that translates to showing these episodes during the regular schedule remains to be seen.
Doug
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Feb 2 2004, 12:16 PM\'] [quote name=\'cmjb13\' date=\'Feb 2 2004, 08:15 AM\'] GSN thinks they are giving us what we want to see.
Interesting to see how this turns out. [/quote]
Not quite. The more appropriate statement would be "GSN is giving us what they think people will watch." They know DAMN well what WE want to see. :) [/quote]
Did you miss the last-minute special last night, Chris? If you did, I'll send you a DVD of it. It was "The Best of Hollywood Connection." :-)
On a more serious note, it seems that Games Across America is already in reruns.
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FWIW the Adlink schedule for March 15 doesn't seem to leave room for the Games Across America interstitials. Don't know if they're going away, or if the schedule is wrong, or if GSN will somehow shoehorn them in.
Gotta admit, I liked the cow chip bingo silliness. Anticipation of defecation.
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I thought Games Across America was boring....I mean, who really cares about a Rock-Paper-Scissors championship? A wife carrying contest? Cow chip bingo? If I wanted to see ridiculous games, I'll watch the FCC probe into the Super Bowl incident. Also, the "generic" backdrop used for the in-studio segments was hideously ugly.
I'd like to enjoy my Match Game PM in its normal timeslot, thank you.
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Boredom is in the yawn of the beholder. I like the off-beat goofiness of Games Across America. Helps to spice up the same old, same old of the current GSN schedule.
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[quote name=\'SRIV94\' date=\'Feb 2 2004, 12:17 PM\']But what we do know is that there will be a marathon of "previously unseen on GSN" eps of LC on Valentine's Day. Whether that translates to showing these episodes during the regular schedule remains to be seen.[/quote]
I can think of one thing that does translate to, though: With Valentine's Day on a Saturday this year, and with the marathon running from 9am-4am ET.....we're gonna have to miss one of Liz & Pat's appearances on Blockbusters due to this marathon! Come on, GSN, RECONSIDER! We PLANNED to see ALL of Liz & Pat's reign on Blockbusters and get ALL of it into our tape collections, you MUST LET US! Let us have our Blockbusters that weekend and make this Love Connection marathon WAIT 'TIL AFTER we've seen the last of Liz & Pat on Blockbusters! I don't care what your advertisers will say and I DON'T WANT TO CARE! When are you gonna get it through those thick skulls of yours that you are required by our principles to listen to US NOT BENJAMINS!?!?
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Wow.
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[quote name=\'Thad Dixon\' date=\'Feb 2 2004, 09:17 PM\']
I can think of one thing that does translate to, though: With Valentine's Day on a Saturday this year, and with the marathon running from 9am-4am ET.....we're gonna have to miss one of Liz & Pat's appearances on Blockbusters due to this marathon! Come on, GSN, RECONSIDER! We PLANNED to see ALL of Liz & Pat's reign on Blockbusters and get ALL of it into our tape collections, you MUST LET US! Let us have our Blockbusters that weekend and make this Love Connection marathon WAIT 'TIL AFTER we've seen the last of Liz & Pat on Blockbusters! I don't care what your advertisers will say and I DON'T WANT TO CARE! When are you gonna get it through those thick skulls of yours that you are required by our principles to listen to US NOT BENJAMINS!?!? [/quote]
THey might not skip an episode, we don't know that for sure. I don't see what feelers you have into GSN, Thad.
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[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Feb 2 2004, 09:34 PM\'] THey might not skip an episode, we don't know that for sure. I don't see what feelers you have into GSN, Thad. [/quote]
He has "feelers into GSN" to the same extent that he has any concept of how the television business actually works. Which is to say, not at all.
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[quote name=\'Thad Dixon\' date=\'Feb 2 2004, 09:17 PM\'] [quote name=\'SRIV94\' date=\'Feb 2 2004, 12:17 PM\']But what we do know is that there will be a marathon of "previously unseen on GSN" eps of LC on Valentine's Day. Whether that translates to showing these episodes during the regular schedule remains to be seen.[/quote]
I can think of one thing that does translate to, though: With Valentine's Day on a Saturday this year, and with the marathon running from 9am-4am ET.....we're gonna have to miss one of Liz & Pat's appearances on Blockbusters due to this marathon! Come on, GSN, RECONSIDER! We PLANNED to see ALL of Liz & Pat's reign on Blockbusters and get ALL of it into our tape collections, you MUST LET US! Let us have our Blockbusters that weekend and make this Love Connection marathon WAIT 'TIL AFTER we've seen the last of Liz & Pat on Blockbusters! I don't care what your advertisers will say and I DON'T WANT TO CARE! When are you gonna get it through those thick skulls of yours that you are required by our principles to listen to US NOT BENJAMINS!?!? [/quote]
Dude, is he always like this? Anyways, I don't really care too much for Games Across America, but it is probably the only reason I'll watch a Lingo repeat.
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[quote name=\'Thad Dixon\' date=\'Feb 2 2004, 09:17 PM\'] [quote name=\'SRIV94\' date=\'Feb 2 2004, 12:17 PM\']But what we do know is that there will be a marathon of "previously unseen on GSN" eps of LC on Valentine's Day. Whether that translates to showing these episodes during the regular schedule remains to be seen.[/quote]
I can think of one thing that does translate to, though: With Valentine's Day on a Saturday this year, and with the marathon running from 9am-4am ET.....we're gonna have to miss one of Liz & Pat's appearances on Blockbusters due to this marathon! Come on, GSN, RECONSIDER! We PLANNED to see ALL of Liz & Pat's reign on Blockbusters and get ALL of it into our tape collections, you MUST LET US! Let us have our Blockbusters that weekend and make this Love Connection marathon WAIT 'TIL AFTER we've seen the last of Liz & Pat on Blockbusters! I don't care what your advertisers will say and I DON'T WANT TO CARE! When are you gonna get it through those thick skulls of yours that you are required by our principles to listen to US NOT BENJAMINS!?!? [/quote]
A small nit to pick--shouldn't Blockbusters be in gold?
I wouldn't mind GSN going to Love Connection (sorry it's not in red) 24/7, just to see Thad's jugular explode. If that happens, maybe, just maybe Thad won't post these moronic rants again.
Thad, I have all of Liz and Pat's run on tape. Here's a spoiler for the episode you might miss.
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They win...again. Get a life.
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Thad's post (as well as several quoted responses) has been edited for content. And yeah, Thad's future posts will be...let's say "more closely monitored" from now on.
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[quote name=\'dzinkin\' date=\'Feb 2 2004, 06:38 PM\'] [quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Feb 2 2004, 09:34 PM\'] THey might not skip an episode, we don't know that for sure. I don't see what feelers you have into GSN, Thad. [/quote]
He has "feelers into GSN" to the same extent that he has any concept of how the television business actually works. Which is to say, not at all. [/quote]
David, you sure you don't want to bring back Moronionaire? :) Thad's recent postings are a classic example of a Moronionaire contestant's stupidity.
I do realize, though, that Moronionaire's purpose is obsolete now that we are off ATGS.
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[quote name=\'Casey Buck\' date=\'Feb 2 2004, 10:55 PM\']
David, you sure you don't want to bring back Moronionaire? :) Thad's recent postings are a classic example of a Moronionaire contestant's stupidity.
I do realize, though, that Moronionaire's purpose is obsolete now that we are off ATGS. [/quote]
It'd have to be SUper Moronionaire now, as in Super Millionaire.
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[quote name=\'Casey Buck\' date=\'Feb 2 2004, 10:55 PM\'] David, you sure you don't want to bring back Moronionaire? :) Thad's recent postings are a classic example of a Moronionaire contestant's stupidity.
I do realize, though, that Moronionaire's purpose is obsolete now that we are off ATGS. [/quote]
I won't pretend that I haven't considered elements of a new Moronionaire. J.W. Justice and Chuck Gibson were already slated for host and announcer roles on the never-released Episode 11... and we'd have to have Chris Lemon host at least one game if we plan to take moron abuse to new heights. And who could forget the inimitable talents of contestant coordinator Charles "Chuckie Baby" Donegan, or the Double-Blind Contestant Selection Committee, made up of Eddie Timanus and Stevland Morris?
But as you noted, Moronionaire isn't really needed now that we have actual moderators. Moreover, it would violate the Eligibility Guidelines in numerous ways, all of which I'm sure Matt and Chris C. are pondering as they read this. :-)
(Edited: how could I have forgotten the Double-Blind Selection Committee? :-)
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[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Feb 2 2004, 11:04 PM\'] It'd have to be SUper Moronionaire now, as in Super Millionaire. [/quote]
That would be STUPOR Moronionaire, thank you very much. :-)
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[quote name=\'STYDfan\' date=\'Feb 2 2004, 09:40 PM\'] [quote name=\'Thad Dixon\' date=\'Feb 2 2004, 09:17 PM\'] [quote name=\'SRIV94\' date=\'Feb 2 2004, 12:17 PM\']But what we do know is that there will be a marathon of "previously unseen on GSN" eps of LC on Valentine's Day. Whether that translates to showing these episodes during the regular schedule remains to be seen.[/quote]
I can think of one thing that does translate to, though: With Valentine's Day on a Saturday this year, and with the marathon running from 9am-4am ET.....we're gonna have to miss one of Liz & Pat's appearances on Blockbusters due to this marathon! Come on, GSN, RECONSIDER! We PLANNED to see ALL of Liz & Pat's reign on Blockbusters and get ALL of it into our tape collections, you MUST LET US! Let us have our Blockbusters that weekend and make this Love Connection marathon WAIT 'TIL AFTER we've seen the last of Liz & Pat on Blockbusters! I don't care what your advertisers will say and I DON'T WANT TO CARE! When are you gonna get it through those thick skulls of yours that you are required by our principles to listen to US NOT BENJAMINS!?!? [/quote]
Dude, is he always like this? [/quote]
You don't know the 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, or 1/8 of it. :-P
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[quote name=\'dzinkin\' date=\'Feb 2 2004, 10:48 PM\'] I won't pretend that I haven't considered elements of a new Moronionaire. J.W. Justice and Chuck Gibson were already slated for host and announcer roles on the never-released Episode 11... and we'd have to have Chris Lemon host at least one game if we plan to take moron abuse to new heights. And who could forget the inimitable talents of contestant coordinator Charles "Chuckie Baby" Donegan, or the Double-Blind Contestant Selection Committee, made up of Eddie Timanus and Stevland Morris?
But as you noted, Moronionaire isn't really needed now that we have actual moderators. Moreover, it would violate the Eligibility Guidelines in numerous ways, all of which I'm sure Matt and Chris C. are pondering as they read this. :-) [/quote]
Even so, it could still be written and placed on your website, if you don't want to offend the powers that be here or use up the bandwidth (I think you said to me once before that a good chunk of the time MORONIONAIRE writes itself anyway).
Just my two Lincolns. :) Oh, and that Steveland Morris plays a mean piano and harmonica.
Doug
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They might not skip an episode, we don't know that for sure. I don't see what feelers you have into GSN, Thad.
Wait just a split second, Zach! Last week, GSN DID skip the 8/19/62 What's My Line episode that had Shirley Jones as the 'Mystery Guest' and went right to the 8/26/62 one with Carol Channing, which I've already seen.
Cordially,
Tammy Warner--the 'Kit Dougherty of the Big Board!'
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[quote name=\'Winkfan\' date=\'Feb 3 2004, 06:55 PM\'] [quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Feb 2 2004, 06:34 PM\'] They might not skip an episode, we don't know that for sure. I don't see what feelers you have into GSN, Thad. [/quote]
Wait just a split second, Zach! Last week, GSN DID skip the 8/19/62 What's My Line episode that had Shirley Jones as the 'Mystery Guest' and went right to the 8/26/62 one with Carol Channing, which I've already seen.
Cordially,
Tammy Warner--the 'Kit Dougherty of the Big Board!' [/quote]
They do skip episodes on some shows on occasion, but they sometimes do and sometimes do not skip episodes due to special programming preempting a regularly scheduled program(B&W overnight has yet to be preempted in its two year existence IIRC)
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[quote name=\'dzinkin\' date=\'Feb 2 2004, 10:48 PM\'] [quote name=\'Casey Buck\' date=\'Feb 2 2004, 10:55 PM\'] David, you sure you don't want to bring back Moronionaire? :) Thad's recent postings are a classic example of a Moronionaire contestant's stupidity.
I do realize, though, that Moronionaire's purpose is obsolete now that we are off ATGS. [/quote]
I won't pretend that I haven't considered elements of a new Moronionaire. J.W. Justice and Chuck Gibson were already slated for host and announcer roles on the never-released Episode 11... and we'd have to have Chris Lemon host at least one game if we plan to take moron abuse to new heights. And who could forget the inimitable talents of contestant coordinator Charles "Chuckie Baby" Donegan, or the Double-Blind Contestant Selection Committee, made up of Eddie Timanus and Stevland Morris?
But as you noted, Moronionaire isn't really needed now that we have actual moderators. Moreover, it would violate the Eligibility Guidelines in numerous ways, all of which I'm sure Matt and Chris C. are pondering as they read this. :-)
(Edited: how could I have forgotten the Double-Blind Selection Committee? :-) [/quote]
Moronionaire returning?
I'll get the Krispy Kremes. And the taser.
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[quote name=\'SRIV94\' date=\'Feb 2 2004, 12:17 PM\'][quote name=\'CaseyAbell\' date=\'Feb 2 2004, 10:58 AM\'] GSN now holds the license to ALL the Love Connection eps? I thought they just picked up a batch of the 1991-92 shows.
It's a guilty pleasure of mine, so I wouldn't mind seeing some of the 1980s episodes. [/quote]
GSN may or may not have the license to show all 11 years (it could be just five years, for all we know--unless someone's made a phone call to Culver City for confirmation). But what we do know is that there will be a marathon of "previously unseen on GSN" eps of LC on Valentine's Day. Whether that translates to showing these episodes during the regular schedule remains to be seen.[/quote]
My guess, especially considering the extra daytime slot "LC" will be getting starting in March, is that they exercised the option and got additional episodes. Something tells that they probably did not picked all 1,500 + episodes, though--probably maybe another 500, if that much.