With a new season of NBC’s Deal or No Deal comes a few set changes, as with most shows on television.  Interestingly, this season isn’t that much.  We mainly have a few lighting changes, including some white light on the model’s stairs, new colors for their stairs, and new neon lighting below the Banker’s booth.  [...]

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TheFutonCritic.com reports that NBC will preview Merv Griffin’s Crosswords at 8:30 PM Eastern/7:30 PM Central on Saturday, September 8, following the network’s fall preview special. This makes the second primetime game show preview of that week, following Temptation’s back-to-back episode preview on MyNetworkTV on Wednesday, September 5.
I’ve heard at least one market has no [...]

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We have many new numbers on the ratings page today.  cracked the top 10, tying with the weekend edition of  while the other syndicated game shows also saw an increase.  tied the ratings it got last week, showing a strong, consistent fan base on what is a relatively crappy night (CBS Wednesdays).  [...]

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Thankfully GSN has some sense and moved the Grand Slam schedule around a tiny bit.  According to GSN and contestant Ed Toutant, GSN will be placing all episodes now on Saturdays at 7PM ET.  There will not be a new episode on Sunday nights.  There will be encores of the Saturday episodes the same day [...]

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Power of 10 has been a fantastic reminder that game shows don’t need to give away hundreds of thousands of dollars every night to be exciting, engaging, and entertaining.  That being said, be expecting a millionaire soon on NBC’s next season of Deal or No Deal.  The new season will kick off on Monday, September [...]

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<>It’s about time we found some information about the sixth season of the syndicated edition of Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, isn’t it? Not much has changed, but we do have a new themed week: TV week. According to a source who tried out, the test quizzed you on subjects all across the board; [...]

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Is it even a shock when FOX buys some absolutely stupid premise for a game show?
We haven’t had one of these in a while: it’s time for a BuzzerBlog flashback.  If you were one of our two readers back in our Blogger days, you might remember when NBC was shooting a pilot for a lie [...]

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Big Edit: Someone from an early taping recently commented, and there are a few differences in the rules for them.  Did they switch rules after a few weeks?  You be the judge; click here.
A source who wished to remain anonymous supplied us with the rules for Merv Griffin’s Crosswords, which debuts Monday, September 10th, across [...]

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GSN will be paying tribute to the game show legend, Merv Griffin (who recently passed away), with a special tribute on the weekend of August 18th in two five-hour blocks from 10AM to 3PM ET.  On Saturday, August 18th, GSN will be featuring Wheel of Fortune with episodes such as an early appearance with Chuck [...]

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We’ll have a full report later this week from British correspondent David Howell, but the original version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, nearing its tenth year, will be getting some new rules.  Shockingly, the format is being cut to twelve questions with the new money chain going 500, 1000 * 2000, 5000, 10000, [...]

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