GSN needs a hit.  Badly.  How Much is Enough?, which I still feel bad about giving a remotely positive review about after just one episode, bombed.  Bingo America is fine enough but obviously cares much more about the bingo players at home than the actual game, and that hurts the final product.  Catch 21 has a long history with GSN.  Pitched years [...]

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Coming on July 21st is GSN’s new series Catch 21, based off their hit online game and the classic casino card game 21.  I was fortunate enough to interview the host of the new series Alfonso Ribeiro.  In the interview, he discusses how he prepared for the show and his hosting style as well as his love for golf, his daughter, and [...]

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This looks like a clip from the upcoming preview special, but hey, I’ll take it.
Also, at the end is one of the new GSN ad campaigns.

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Ever get one of those emails where you say “Are you kidding me?  I’m hoping this is a dream.”  I did once GSN sent out the advanced schedules for the next few weeks.  Russian Roulette is sadly gone except for weekends at 4:00PM ET.  Replacing it starting July 21st at 6:00PM ET daily is Pyramid.  Not the good Dick Clark kind.  It’s the [...]

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GSN’s started its summer season off with a bang with the new campaign to “Catch a Game”.  During the summer the network will be showing off its cool beach like image while getting the word out about their new show: Catch 21.  We’ve covered the show quite a bit so far, and if you’ve followed us you know the basic information.  Catch 21, hosted [...]

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It’s seriously three weeks until GSN’s new original, Catch 21, comes out and they have not done a single bit of press about it.  GSN hasn’t even said a single word yet.  It seems like us, our good friends at HollywoodJunket, and our even better friends at Game Show NewsNet are the only people even acknowledging it.  As [...]

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I will still go to the grave saying GSN’s best original, all around, they ever did was Russian Roulette.  And thank god that drop never got old.  Part of it was because of the exciting, scary, tense game play a few years ahead of its time.  It’s also partly due to the funny and fun contestants they had.  Anyone who screamed before they dropped made the show.  For this [...]

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If you haven’t noticed, the current game show host trend is to get stars from the 80s or 90s who have faded, had some fame back then, and make them the new big thing.  For the most part it’s worked out well.  Really, the only people who haven’t been hired by this process are Mark Walberg and Regis Philbin, but they are both awesome so they deserve the primetime [...]

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GSN’s hit original series, Bingo America has been renewed for a second season.  The interactive quiz show will have its new season in the Fall, so be on the lookout for more information as time comes.  And I’d like to especially note that producers of the show have been reading here for viewer’s input, so be [...]

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I got an email today from the fantastic people (basically partners at this point) at Hollywood Junket who have recently visited the final days of taping at GSN’s new original Catch-21.  GSN could really use a hit game show badly.  They haven’t had anything in a while.  This show seems like it could be a [...]

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