Casino Programming Moved to Sundays on GSN
Edit: I fixed the Sunday casino block schedule; sorry about the confusion, I overlooked that part in the original schedule excel file I was sent. World Poker Tour airs at 9:00PM ET and 1:00AM ET on Sundays. The other time slots that evening are High Stakes Poker.
GSN’s been doing a lot of rearranging recently. First off, just a minor note that the Sunday decades specials called Laugh Out Loud have been newly titled Play It Back. Those schedules remain the same. However, starting on September 22nd, all casino programming will be gone from weekday time slots. Casino programming will only been seen on Sundays from 7:00PM to 3:00AM ET and that’s just a mishmash of High Stakes Poker and World Poker Tour. WPT is on Sundays at 1AM ET and stretches to 3AM ET, so no Body Language/Beat the Clock.
With that, there are a few tweaks to the weekday schedule. Again, starting September 22nd, every Monday through Friday you will see Millionaire at 8:00PM ET. GSN really needs to be begging for syndicated Millionaire reruns because I don’t know who can stand to watch the same ABC era reruns for this long. At 9:00pm ET is Richard Karn’s Family Feud, with John O’Hurley’s edition at 9:30PM ET. Catch 21 is at 10:00PM ET, Pyramid (the screwed up Osmond version) at 10:30PM ET, Lingo at 11:00PM ET, and Whammy! at 11:30PM ET. Millionaire is again at 12:00AM ET. At 1AM ET, we see the return of the very fun That’s The Question, and Camouflage will be seen at 1:30AM ET. Trivia Trap will be seen at 2:00AM ET, and now you see Now You See It at 2:30AM ET.
Saturdays are changing as well. Millionaire, again, is at 8:00PM ET. Anne Robinson’s NBC primetime Weakest Link is at 9:00PM ET. Chain Reaction replaces Catch 21 at 10:00PM ET. Here’s a gigantic trade up: Russian Roulette will replace Pyramid at 10:30PM ET. Lingo sticks at 11:00PM ET and will again be seen at 11:30PM ET. Catch 21 will be played for an hour at midnight. Twenty-One sticks at 1:00AM ET, and (and I’m gearing up for the complaints) High Stakes Poker replaces Body Language and Beat the clock at 2:00AM ET.
One more thing to look forward to as well. Wheel of Fortune will have its own marathon on Saturday, September 27th, from 9AM ET to 3PM ET.
I won’t make a huge complaint about the BL and BTC removal from Saturdays. But I would have gotten rid of Twenty-One at 1:00am and moved HSP there.
Other than that, these changes are nothing to get excited about. I really don’t understand how Camouflage is going to be on 7 days a week with only 40 episodes. Couldn’t they have found something better to put on at 1:30am. Oh but here is a silly idea, why didn’t they just leave NYSI right there?
For a while, I thought we had a President that “Got” It. Now I am starting to question that with some of these changes.
First off, I’m glad to see TTQ back on the (admittedly) overnight schedule and Camoflauge was a fine game I’d like to see come back in some form. In fact, new seasons of both of those shows would be great…but I’m not holding my breath. Unless they do gangbuster ratings overnight…
While it’s too much Regis, I’m also glad to see a consistent M-F primetime schedule. Agree that the early Viera eps of WWTBAM would be better for GSN now.
Trivia Trap has already cycled overnight at least once and should probably be retired for a while. And the same could probably be said for Alex Trebek’s Double Dare.
Why not bring back a watchable, workable Playmania to overnights? While I also enjoy the classics, I miss Jess, Shandi, and Angelle. And it would create buzz outside the hardcore audience.
On a related note, isn’t this when GSN Live is supposed to expand? Any idea who will host the 3 – 6 p.m. Eastern additional edition?
Anyone know how, if at all, these changes will effect NOW YOU SEE IT ? (I, for one, have always been a big-time fan of that show-the original version, that is)…
BOOOO on GSN! Dropping Osmond’s “Pyramid” is a good move, but Monty Hall on “Beat The Clock” is a good show. Even “Body Language”, not one of Goodson-Todman’s better efforts, is watchable.
Casino Night on Sunday Doesn’t fit.
Also, please, GSN, no more “Millionaire”. Just have a second channel, “GSN 2: The Millionaire Channel” – all “Millionaire”, all the time. I’m tired of it; it’s overprogrammed.
GSN needs to spend more time going after other classics or, perhaps, returning some of their other library to the schedule – like “The Joker’s Wild”.
Mr.Quiz, Alex said it will be moved to 2:30am and air Monday-Friday.
Chas: They’re not really dropping Pyramid. Instead of Tuesday through Saturday, it’ll now be Monday through Friday, the same change that’s happening to many shows in that time frame. I agree, though, that it would have been better to replace Trivia Trap.
It’s still average. Nice to see Camouflage and That’s the Question in late nights BUT it’s still impossible to get myself to stay up in the after hours as long as millionaire STILL airs at midnight. If it was 2 other classics, even if The Joker’s Wild and something else aired that late, they’d have my viewership but Regis Millionaire at midnight just kills the night on the spot.
TT at one in the morning? I mean, I went to bed with TT and NYSI before I shut my TV off. Now I’ll have to deal with both shows an hour later.
Thanks for f___ing up my Sunday nights GSN! “Body Language” is one of the only shows that I watch on the network right now – just LOVE the fact that poker is taking over for it! Reminds me of ‘their biggest mistake’, “The Amazing Race” roosting in the early morning slots before its ultimate demise. Why doesn’t GSN use all of this extra money used for poker shows and “TAR” on game shows like “Scrabble”, and “$ale Of The Century”, which are sitting in FremantleMedia’s vaults in Australia doing nothing!
Yep it must be a real party in that vault than knowing some of our favorite game shows are having the time of their lives becoming a spider’s habitat or better yet a home for dust bunnies! The excitement must be unbareable.