In the category of news that basically everyone knows by now but I was really busy yesterday, Al Roker has been announced as the host of NBC’s primetime celebrity run of the hit syndicated game show Family Feud.  The announcement was made on Monday’s Today show to make for some nice cross promotion there.  John [...]

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NBC announced their Fall 2008 primetime schedule far in advance, as well as their Winter 2009 and Summer 2009. They are getting rid of a vast majority of their game shows and sticking with scripted which I suppose is good. I’m a gigantic 30 Rock fan so I’m glad to see it’s sticking [...]

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Is this the year of Family Feud or what?  Let’s look at all the things in its favor.
*It’s the only syndicated show to actually gain viewers from year to year.
*GSN picked up the rerun rights to the current John O’Hurley edition of the show.
*ION picked up the rerun rights as well.
And now, NBC has picked [...]

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I have to tell you, for the most part, this season’s Deal or No Deal gimmicks have been fantastic.  They really change the game into something new and exciting, like Winner Takes All.  Of course not all are hits, like the Million Dollar Mission.  However, I think this one’s going to be a hit: Deal’s [...]

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A lot of game shows were on the major networks Friday.  I was out at a party so I didn’t get to check all of them out, but a few notes.
1: Wow, Drew Carey has to be the luckiest person in the universe.  First Power of 10 and now Price is Right.

2: Amne$ia wasn’t as [...]

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Was it a huge shock to anyone that My Dad is Better Than Your Dad bombed?  I honestly think (and it’s probably true) that some major Hollywood players, like Mark Burnett, can pitch a show with the flimsiest and, to be honest, dumbest of concepts and get it picked up because that’s the person that’s [...]

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This might be just me (many stuff is), but I’ve found myself caring less and less about 1 VS 100 this season and basically because of all the changes they have made. The thing is that they aren’t necessarily horribly bad changes. It’s just a good deal of slightly crappy changes which have [...]

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Scanning through Craigslist and various other places, I’ve found some new game shows coming out, some of which might be decent.  Of course with that some of them are going to be really bad and potentially end in law suits!  Isn’t that fun?  Let’s go over some.
First off, by the way, Million Dollar Password is [...]

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Whenever one show becomes popular, you are bound to get some clones. When Deal or No Deal came out, we had Show Me the Money and Set For Life. 1 VS 100 gave us Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader. With American Gladiators we were bound to get some stunt shows, [...]

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Coming up in a few hours we’ll have a photo gallery of what looks to be Double Dare taken way too seriously: My Dad is Better Than Your Dad.  But for now we have Dennis Miller’s new hosting vehicle, Amne$ia.  What’s shocking is that the show is debuting in two weeks and not a thing [...]

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