20Dec2011
“Russian Roulette” Shows How a Drop-Based Show Should be Done
We're in our third straight year of game shows that involve dropping people for losing. We had Downfall, and then 101 Ways to Leave a Game Show, and now Who's Still Standing?. However, these shows, especially the recent NBC one mentioned last, makes us remember just how incredibly good Russian Roulette was and how far ahead GSN/Game Show Network was ahead of anyone else. It also does show us that GSN can create a show that rivals anything else out there if they put out effort. We've posted some of the show on Facebook, and we wanted to go into it more here. Click here to see some of the show and why both television producers and GSN should look back to it.
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Review: No Amount of Charity Can Save “You Deserve It”
ABC's been on a roll with game shows recently. We've had 101 Ways to Leave a Game Show, Take The Money and Run, and Million Dollar Mind Game which have all ranged from not bad to incredibly good (in that order). They can't all be winners. ABC is debuting their new charity based game show You Deserve It tonight at 9:00PM. The thought behind the show is OK. The actual game should be good. Even the host Chris Harrison is good. However, it just comes off as another lazy quiz show straight from the recent Deal or No Deal playbook. Click here to read more.
Read MoreView Comments (33)19Sep2011
“Wheel of Fortune” Kicks Off 29th Season Tonight
Long running syndicated game show Wheel of Fortune opens its 29th season tonight. Check your local listings. Both Pat Sajak and Vanna White return trying to give away a million dollars to lucky puzzle solvers. Nearly everything you saw last season returns. One new feature is the "1/2 Car Tag". If you can collect both of them by landing on them and calling a correct letter, regardless if you win the entire game, you get a car. The tags will appear during the first three rounds. A special partnership and sweepstakes with Sears, called the "Secret Santa Sweepstakes", will appear later this year and gives viewers a chance to win up to a million dollars nightly. The show will also introduce new categories "Television Quote" and "Movie Quote" as well as visit Portland, Oregon, in March (it will air in May). If you watch the show tonight be sure to let us know what you think. Click here to give us your opinion.
Read MoreView Comments (16)19Sep2011
“The Price is Right” and “Let’s Make A Deal” Debut New Seasons Today on CBS
Two of daytime's favorite game shows return for a brand new season of big money and prizes. First for many people, but check your local listings, is the third season debut of Let's Make A Deal. However, I'm guessing many of you are excited for the season debut of The Price is Right, though. Drew Carey and George Gray return along with an updated set featuring a large new monitor, new lighting, and a few other things you'll see today. Be sure to write in the comments what you thought of the season debuts. I'm curious to see what you think of the new looks and updated features for both shows. Click here to read more and let us know what you think.
Read MoreView Comments (23)12Sep2011
“Family Feud” Debuts New Season Today
Get set: Family Feud is back for another season. Steve Harvey returns as host after increasing ratings by over 30% from his previous season and jumping the show to third place, only behind Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!. What should you expect this season? More of the same comedy that literally brought hundreds of thousands more viewers to the show for starters. Look for the audience to have a slightly different vibe as well. The change from the Los Angeles to Orlando audience last season was noticeable. Let's see how it goes with Atlanta audiences. Beyond that, the show's working better than it ever has in this current version of Feud, so why mess with it? The show's posted two previews of the upcoming season. Check them out. What did you think of the season debut? Click here and let us know.
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ABC’s “Take the Money and Run” Debuts Tonight at 9:00PM ET
ABC is debuting its new competition game show Take the Money and Run tonight at 9:00PM ET. The show sees two contestants hiding a briefcase of $100,000 anywhere they can. Police officials will track it down through intense interrogation and hunting. It's one of the more inventive and best themed shows we've seen in a while so I hope you give it a shot. Let us know what you think. Hopefully you like it. Click here to give us your review.
Read MoreView Comments (15)01Aug2011
Did You Know That “Let’s Make A Deal” is Satanic?
There's no way that title can be misconstrued. Did you know that CBS's popular daytime game show Let's Make A Deal is satanic? It is, according to this guy. How is it? It all starts because of the arches over the logo in positions to the letters. Watching this is hysterical and terrifying. However, I do come up with a challenge to you. Can you think of any other game shows that could be satanic according to this nut's vision? Let us know in as much detail as you can think of. And no, the guy is not making a joke. But I am. What other game shows are satanic? Click here to tell us, and to see the video.
Read MoreView Comments (40)20Jul2011
“It’s Worth What?” Has Decent Sampling in Debut
Last night saw the debut of NBC's newest game show endeavor It's Worth What?. The show asks contestants to try to assess the value of antiques or rare collectacbles to win up to $1,000,000. We'll have more of a review of the full episode soon, but first let's get to the ratings. Depending on if people liked the show and will stick around next week, the debut of the Cedric the Entertainer-hosted game show wasn't bad. The show opened with 6.71 million viewers. Click here for the full ratings information and a review.
Read MoreView Comments (13)19Jul2011
NBC’s “It’s Worth What?” Debuts Tonight at 8:00PM ET
Another new game show is entering the Summer primetime schedule tonight. NBC will debut its newest effort, It's Worth What?, tonight at 8:00PM ET. The show has had a long history dating back to GSN when it was under a more flea market-like format. The current show is more like The Price is Right with antiques. A couple attempts to build a bank by gauging which antiques or collectables are worth more than others. The couple can win up to $1,000,000 throughout the show. Let us know what you think of the show when it airs tonight. Click here to write your review and let your voice be heard.
Read MoreView Comments (16)15Jul2011
Review: “Take the Money and Run” is Good Combination of “Law and Order” and “The Amazing Race”
I love when networks take risks with shows. They don't do it very often. With reality or game shows, nine times out of ten we see either a Millionaire clone or an Amazing Race clone. The risk takers are remembered. No one outside of the genre-focused people remembers a show like Set For Life. People remember shows that didn't last that long, like The Mole, for being different and unique. ABC's taking a chance on a new spy thriller-styled game/reality show Take The Money and Run (Tuesday, August 2nd at 9:00PM ET), and I'm glad they did. The Wild Rover-created competition is very intense, very different than anything on American television, very fun, and hopefully very successful. Click here to read the full review.
Read MoreView Comments (12)14Jun2011
Review: ABC’s “101 Ways to Leave a Game Show” is Good Brainless Summer Fun
Next Tuesday is the debut of ABC's new summer game show 101 Ways to Leave a Game Show. The British version aired last year on BBC to little fanfare. Practically nothing of the BBC version survives here, and for the most part that's a very, very good thing. For the past few years ABC has been pairing shows with their hit stunt show Wipeout trying to find a good companion. I think they've got as good a candidate as any here. ABC's version makes the British version look like Candyland. It's by far the most extreme game show on television. Click here to learn more about ABC's new game show.
Read MoreView Comments (21)16May2011
GSN’s Updated “Lingo” is ROUGH, R-O-U-G-H
It's incredibly hard to screw up GSN's upcoming version of Lingo, debuting June 6th at 8:00PM ET. It's just people guessing five lettered words and playing Bingo. You'd figure it would be next to impossible to find ways to botch the job. The network sent out screeners of an upcoming episode. The Bill Engvall hosted updated version is far from bad. They just made a lot of decisions which make no sense, and the show pales in comparison to the former version. Click here for the full review.
Read MoreView Comments (18)10May2011
GSN Releases Previews of the New “Lingo”
I'm starting to get nervous about the updated version of Lingo coming to GSN this June. When the rules were first leaked some of the changes announced were confusing and without any merit for change, but it was far from the end of the world. When it was announced Chuck Woolery wasn't returning, it was equally confusing but we were told that GSN is very adamant on having A list hosts now, and we can see Bill Engvall doing well. GSN released two previews of the new show. After seeing it, I'm starting to get a very bad feeling. It's blending in with the network's current M.O. of solely host driven light-on-content shows too much. Click here to see the previews.
Read MoreView Comments (32)10May2011
Morning Buzz for May 10, 2011
Are you a disappointed Nashville Predators fan after their loss to the Vancouver Canucks last night? Try to erase it from your memory and change the topic but getting some genre updates. Here's your Morning Buzz for May 10, 2011. We've got a video from yesterday's The Price is Right, a casting notice for Baggage, another casting notice plus a small rant about potential laziness for NBC's Still Standing, and audience information for MTV2 and The Newlywed Game. We've also got some information on Meredith Vieira and her status with Millionaire. Click here to get the full story on each item.
Read MoreView Comments (9)28Mar2011
“Drew Carey’s Improv-A-Ganza” the Perfect Successor to “Whose Line is it Anyway?”
In just two weeks, on April 11th, GSN will debut their new improv comedy show Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza, weeknights at 8:00PM ET. They are billing it as essentially the next phase of the popular two-decade-long-running improvisational comedy show Whose Line is it Anyway?. Expectations of Improv-A-Ganza are high after hearing who is involved and what the show is. The good news is that, after seeing one of the first episodes, the show is a welcome edition into the improv comedy world and the perfect successor to Whose Line. Click here to read all the information about Improv-A-Ganza.
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