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The Big Board / Re: Improve One Pricing Game...
« Last post by jjman920 on May 22, 2025, 11:39:48 PM »
Two things always bugged me about Give or Keep: you weren’t actually “giving away” anything, and the “keep more than you give away” mechanic rewarded greed.
I mean, I guess. I just assumed that you were "giving away" the prize you didn't keep back to the house. I suppose it can be viewed as rewarding greed, but I never watch the game thinking "which one of these prizes would I want the most?" I'm just answering Bob's question of "which one of these is more expensive?" It's a quiz to me, not an exercise in personal value.

I love the concept of the game, I'm sad that it didn't play out well enough on TV for them to continue playing it. I'd love to see it come back with honestly no changes except bringing out and displaying the small prizes on stage instead of having to do the Shaky Turntable Shuffle.

Though I do love the idea of the prizes not kept being given to someone at home.
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The Big Board / Re: Watson ruined J! for me
« Last post by Strikerz04 on May 22, 2025, 08:57:39 PM »
Is that Watson or Arthur Chu, tho? Feels like he brought back the “Forrest Bounce” fishing for Daily Doubles.
I'd presume Arthur did that (and honestly, it's not a bad thing to do). Everyone else followed suit after that.If anything, the Master's series broke my brain and further proof that I (and my partner, for that matter, also a Jeopardy nerd) are mere mortals.
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Game Show Channels & Networks / Re: Buzzr Q2 2025
« Last post by tpirfan28 on May 22, 2025, 07:13:46 PM »
Also saw and ad for Lost and Found, starting 6/1 at 10:30AM.

Do they not have a lot of 1986 PYL airable?  The 5PM mini-marathon got into maybe February/March 1986 (after Across-The-Board debut), then looped back to late 1984 or early 85.
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The Big Board / Re: Watson ruined J! for me
« Last post by Fedya on May 22, 2025, 06:33:28 PM »
Since we've got a new thread about people's J! bugaboos, let me add that the producers should ban the word "colorful" from clues.
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Game Show Channels & Networks / Re: Buzzr Q2 2025
« Last post by Chelsea Thrasher on May 22, 2025, 06:14:06 PM »
The majority of the weekday schedule prior to Midnight ET will be new to GSN.  .
Dawson Feud is all new from Fall 1983 (ABC run) in both airings similar to P+ for the first couple weeks, with the late-prime airings roughly a month ahead of mornings. Three shows in the morning 5 days/week, two shows in late prime 7 days/week.

Password Plus (Sept 1981) - the late-primetime airings are starting roughly a month ahead of the early morning ones so both will be new for at least two weeks. 7 days per week.

Eventually mornings will catch where late-Prime started for both of these shows so curious what happens there in the second half of the month.

Super Password (June 1987) - picks up exactly where left off. Seven days per week.

Eubanks CS (very last taped shows of 1987 into 1988). 5 days per week. On weekends they appear to be showing random episodes from later in 1988-89, some of which they've run before and some of which haven't been run in quite some time. Only one '88 show on Sundays due to paid programming availability.

Match Game (Rayburn-era syndicated) - running the third season. Six days per week due to paid program placement on Saturdays.

Match Game PM (yes really - they've aired the show wildly out of order and there's a chunk of eps from the end of S1 and start of S2 they've never run). 7 days/week.

The more-interesting-to-me Match Game 90 (roughly mid-run) is also new, also 7 days/week.

Classic Concentration is labeled '90' in Buzzr's metadata but picks up from where they left off in May 1991. 7 days/week.

These Supermarket Sweep episodes have actually aired at least one time before (they've run 40 of the first 42 shows of that season, and the s7 airings start in that range). Season 7 runs M-F.  However, weekends show a continuation of the new to Buzzr season 8 (PAX final year) eps they've been slowly dripping in the past couple of months.

The overnight series (To Tell the Truth (both hours), Body Language, Blockbusters, Concentration 70s, and syndie What's My Line) and Price is Right have all been seen before (or at least Price has definitely been seen on the Barker Era channel).  The last day that schedule data's up for (overnight 6/8 into 6/9) they're running the last two Blockbusters eps they ran before resetting (311 & 312), so if they wanted to cycle in new eps there, there's a definite opportunity without skipping.  (not getting my hopes up)
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The Big Board / Re: Watson ruined J! for me
« Last post by Joe Mello on May 22, 2025, 04:05:14 PM »
"niche" categories
I'm legitimately curious. What's an example of a "'niche' category" to you?
For fun I checked the most recent episodes on J-archive because I think I know what the complaint is and I can see how a definition of "niche categories" could be an aesthetic bugbear for some.

I'm generally neutral-to-positive about the categories they write but then I see "GEOLOGIC TIME DIVISIONS AS FRIENDS EPISODE TITLES"
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Game Show Channels & Networks / Buzzr Q2 2025
« Last post by MSTieScott on May 22, 2025, 03:10:37 PM »
Buzzr continues to push "National Game Show Day" by making an event out of June. The network also will break with recent tradition by NOT using the weekend to repeat weekday programming.

Of note is that more "new" episodes of Classic Concentration will return starting June 1. An ad also promotes Eubanks Card Sharks, Dawson Family Feud, and Password Plus; additionally, I see one episode of Shafer Match Game per day and some later-Pax-era Supermarket Sweeps. I don't know whether any of those are also new to Buzzr. (It's easy to check Classic Concentration -- the fan wiki doesn't have episode information, so the episodes must not have aired since 1991.)
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The Big Board / Re: Watson ruined J! for me
« Last post by chad1m on May 22, 2025, 03:04:44 PM »
"niche" categories
I'm legitimately curious. What's an example of a "'niche' category" to you?
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The Big Board / Re: Watson ruined J! for me
« Last post by wdm1219inpenna on May 22, 2025, 02:18:54 PM »
For me, Jeopardy is no fun anymore, not only due to players hopping around and starting with the harder clues, but also the far too "niche" categories used anymore.

I would not mind if a board had 1 or maybe 2 niche categories per round but most times 3 to 4 categories or more are just weird categories to me anymore.
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The Big Board / Re: Watson ruined J! for me
« Last post by BrandonFG on May 22, 2025, 01:14:45 PM »
Is that Watson or Arthur Chu, tho? Feels like he brought back the “Forrest Bounce” fishing for Daily Doubles.
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