15Feb2009
GSN’s “Bingo America” Apparently Renewed for Third Season; Now Casting
GSN's Bingo America has made some sort of GSN/Game Show Network history. It's the second game show in the network's history to be renewed for more than a second season. Casting has now begun for the show's third season. The only requirements are that you can't have been on any GSN show in the past 3 years (sorry those who wasted your time on Freaking Million Dollar Cat Game Show) or any game show this past year. $100,000 up for grabs if you have the basic knowledge of a high schooler. Interestingly they are letting you nominate someone you think would be a good contestant as well, so go at it by clicking here. EDIT: We should note, like always, that nothing's 100% official until a press release comes out stating it. But usually the
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“Bingo America” Makes More Winners in 2009
First run episodes of GSN's hit game show Bingo America may be over, but the winning for you home viewers is far from done. A lot more money is coming your way if you play along weekdays at 6:30PM ET on GSN. All this week, as normal, $50 is up for grabs if you get any Bingo during the show, or match your Bingo Bonus Numbers with the ones the contestant picks. However, on Wednesday, $1,000 is on the line for any Bingo during the regular Winner Wednesdays. On the week of January 12th, a special promotion giving away more money than ever. For this week only, 250 winners will be made every day. Right now only 100 winners are made each week so it's a big increase and a better chance for you all to win some money for doing nothing more th
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Best Holiday Gifts for Game Show Fans
It's amazing that Christmas is almost here, isn't it? It doesn't seem that long ago that we were welcoming in 2008, and 2009 is right around the corner. Christmas is only in 8 days and it may be time to get those last minute gifts for your family. If you have game show fans in your family, or just know people who like games, we have a list of our favorites items of the past year which will make anyone on your list happy. Recently released for the iPhone, iPod, and other mobile devices is the new version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire? which will make a fantastic gift along with the DVD version. The DVD game is a pretty fun party game, including the multiplayer mode, but it's always a bit disappointing to see they can never include Switch the Question on any game using the old format. But beyond that, it follows the original version of the show very well. Click here to get it from GSNShop. In regards to the iPhone game, the format is exactly as it is on television currently. You have ten Experts available to use for Ask the Expert. Modern graphics and actual show music are used well, as well as a video introduction from host Meredith Vieira. For $4.99, it's definitely worth the purchase. Honestly, the only negative mark is that the categories repeat in one game more than they should, but the questions are different. Check the iPhone app store to get that. (more...)
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Various GSN News Items
Sorry, I thought someone was updating the site when I went away. Guess not. But lots of GSN news in my inbox. First off watch GSN Live tomorrow. Alan Thicke who hasn't been as awful as an Expert on Who Wants to be a Millionaire? this week as I imagined, will be the guest. You can see him at around 1:15PM ET. He hosted a GSN show called Three's A Crowd a long time ago. Apparently it wasn't that popular because I don't remember him on GSN at all. Bingo America tomorrow is going to be great for all home viewers playing along as well. On Friday, the hit GSN show Bingo America will be matching any $50 winner with a $50 gift certificate for a "turkey". Although it may be worth noting that there's no way in hell you'll be getting your prize before Thanksgiving so let's just say you'll be winning $100 if you play along tomorrow. Just go to GSN's Bingo America website, download your cards, and play at 6:30PM E. And oh yeah, High Stakes Poker is taping in a few weeks. It'll take place at the Golden Nugget Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
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John Hanlin’s $100,000 “Bingo America” Win Video
After fighting with my computer to get it working, I finally have it ready to go! For all those who missed it, here's the big win of the week. It's John Hanlin winning the $100,000 grand prize from Bingo America. Congratulations to John; played great and gutsy all game long. [stream flv=x:/www.flashgameshows.com/wordpress/videos/bingo100Kwinner.flv width=630 height=343 bandwidth=med /]
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John Hanlin Wins $100,000 on “Bingo America”
On the same day as the massive massive failure on NBC's Deal or No Deal (video of that will be coming soon), GSN had a reason to celebrate. Bingo America crowned its second $100,000 winner; the first with the new and vastly improved end game. John Hanlin beat some pretty amazing odds. In the end game, you have to pick a number from each row on a Bingo board (B: 1-15, I: 16-30, N: 31-45, G: 46-60, O: 61-75). Rows I through O have wrecking balls (1 in I, 3 in N, 6 in G, 10 in O) which, if picked, wipes out your entire bank. He risked $6,500 on the 1:3 shot to pass the O level and was the first person to clear the board, securing $7,000. A Superball was then drawn from the Bingo Sphere, and if it matched any of the five numbers that Hanlin picked on the board, that $7,000 becomes $100,000. He beat the 1:15 odds and collected the top prize. Hanlin said, “I felt very eager to get on the show and play… it sounded like a fun and exciting atmosphere to compete for a cash prize.” Hanlin, a game show enthusiast who had never won anything before added, “Going all the way to the final round was icing on the cake; I had a blast! Winning on Bingo America was such a fantastic feeling, because it was one of the most unexpected and exciting thrills of my life.” With his $100,000, Hanlin plans to purchase his dream car, a classic 1969 Chevy Corvette and share his new wealth with his family. You can see John Handlin talk about his winning experience on GSN Live today during the 3PM ET-6PM ET block, hosted by Fred Roggin and Kelly Packard. A video of the win will come soon. This was such a great win compared to last season. It's all luck still, whatever, but it was incredibly exciting to watch. It was a much nicer and m
Read MoreView Comments (11)06Oct2008
“Bingo America” with Richard Karn Starts Tonight at 6:30PM ET on GSN
Today's a good day for all the Bingo America fans reading. The new season of the popular GSN original starts today at a new time of 6:30PM ET. New hosts as well. Instead of Patrick Duffy, this season we get former Family Feud host Richard Karn as well as new co-host Diane Mizota. I doubt I had much to do with the new end game, but I'm going to say, for the sake of my own ego, that my constant nagging of how much the old one sucked brought on a much better one. Watch out for the all new end game today which involves actual risk. Outstanding. There's also a lot more audience interaction this season. Both with a new audience game, and you at home. You can still print out your cards at GSN.com/bingo or go the partner site at MSNgames.com so no crashing GSN's website this year at least. Three boards are on each card, and you can print 10 per page. If you get a Bingo at home, you just instantly won $50. Be sure to play on Wednesdays, because you win $250 with each Bingo then! GSN also has an online Bingo America game you can play as well, where if you get a Bingo you win $25. Lots of money going around. You don't have to pay anything to play tonight, so why not join in and take a chance at winning some money, no strings attached? We had a lot of winners from BuzzerBlog, and I want to see even more this season as Bingo America season two debuts tonight at 6:30PM ET on GSN. Be sure to tell us what you think of the new season.
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Bingo America Preview
We're continuing our big push for more news videos on the site, and GSN helped us out by sending a preview of the new season of Bingo America as well as an interview with host Richard Karn. Check it out below. The new season of Bingo America starts October 6th at 6:30PM ET on GSN. Watch out for the DVD game then also.
Read MoreView Comments (5)29Sep2008
“Bingo America” Hosts Visit GSN Live
Well we may have missed the first day, but you'll catch is the rest of this week. Next week sees the season debut of Bingo America featuring new hosts, a new better end game, and more audience participation than ever before. To promote it a bit more and get people excited, GSN Live will be playing bingo themed games all week during the 1PM ET hour, hosted by Heidi Bohay and Alfonso Ribeiro. People that play along have the chance to be the first to win the new Bingo America DVD game coming out next Monday as well. Finally, on Friday, October 3rd, the new host of Bingo America, Richard Karn, stops by the GSN Live set at 5PM ET along with hosts Fred Roggin and Kelly Packard. New co-host of Bingo, Diane Mizota, will be on Monday, October 6th, at 5PM ET as well. If you're wanting your own copy of the Bingo America DVD game, you can look for it next week at GSN's new online store, GSNshop.com.
Read MoreView Comments (2)21Sep2008
“Bingo America” Season 2 Pictures and a DVD Game
We're going GSN crazy, aren't we? If we keep getting news, we'll keep publishing. We were given a few pictures of the new season of GSN's interactive game show Bingo America. I keep hearing that Richard Karn did exponentially better than season one host Patrick Duffy, who was just too rigid and stiff. New co-host Diane Mizota is also apparently a lot better than the last one, but that's not really hard. Former co-host Crystal was just, well, there. She could have been a cardboard cutout and it would have been the same. Not only that, somewhat amazingly to me, the show's already getting a DVD game. I'll give them credit at least. They are really selling this show on the fact that it's interactive, more than anything. If they keep promoting the show in interactive ways, more eyes will hopefully flow in. Because the show's honestly not bad. It just needed some clean-up work and a new end game, which we get this season. Speaking of GSN DVD games, Lingo should be getting one soon as well. But the Bingo America DVD game comes out at the end of October. The new season of Bingo America starts Monday, October 6th, at the perplexing and somewhat aggravating time of 6:30PM ET on GSN.
Read MoreView Comments (1)25Aug2008
“Bingo America” Changes Made Official
A press release for the second season of GSN's Bingo America came out tonight. I have to be honest, even though I do like some of the changes, portions of it leave me confused. We'll get to that in a minute. First off, reitterating what we said before, Richard Karn is the new host. I still think he'll do fine with the show and be a hell of a lot more entertaining and livelier than former host Patrick Duffy ever was. We have a new end game which is slightly better too. It's not made specifically clear, but it seems you have the same bonus board as before, as pictured to the left. Each row is hiding some "wrecking balls" behind numbers, and each row has more than the last. All totaled up, there are 20 up there. You pick a number, and if you avoid the wrecking ball you can take your money and go home or play the next level. If you hit a wrecking ball at any time you lose everything earned up to that point, but if you can make it through all the letters, you win $100,000. For home players, if the studio numbers picked match your home numbers, you are a winner as well. It's still not the best thing on earth, but it's a hell of a lot better than the dumb matching game. I have to give them some credit for improving there. The rest is staying the same it seems, so no major changes beyond an added audience game. Here's what really confuses me though. It's debuting Monday, October 6th, at 6:30PM ET. Really, 6:30PM ET? You couldn't have pushed Whammy, which airs at 7:00PM ET, back a half hour and put your headlining original at a decent time slot? Unless 6:30PM ET is some magic slot that gets great ratings that we don't know about. That time slot just spells trouble to me. Especially for this season, fo
Read MoreView Comments (10)22Aug2008
Richard Karn is New Host of “Bingo America”
I'm about to give you a lot of opinions which conflict what I've written over and over in other articles during this post. First off, let's get the facts straight. Bingo America, GSN's hit interactive game show, is coming back. People are reading way too much into its removal from the schedule. GSN still gives away money to home viewers during the reruns. No reason to continue doing this. It's why the show needs a larger episode order than 40, but I digress. We know one change for sure, and that's host Patrick Duffy is gone from the show. Replacing him is, get ready, former Family Feud host Richard Karn. And here comes the confusion. I can actually see this working. Let me get this out of the way and if Mr. Karn somehow reads this, I apologize but it's just my opinion. Richard was not a very good Feud host. He was way too repetitive, not good with being funny off the top of his head, and was so cheery it gave viewers diabetes. He's moving to a show where he has no choice but to be repetitive, he has no time for improv, and he needs to be really excited and energetic. I really think this is going to work well. I liked former host Patrick Duffy and if he wants to host a more subdued game show, I'd love to see it. But he was just too mellow and dull for the circus of the show.
Read MoreView Comments (27)05Aug2008
GSN Schedule Change: “Bingo America” Gone
Don't bored the doom and gloom train just yet, readers. GSN updated their schedules today and it's only a small change. Whammy! will be replacing Bingo America weekdays at 7:00PM, and Pyramid will take Bingo America's spot weekends at 4:30PM. Again, before everyone cries about the end and ratings which no one knows and that stuff, GSN is still giving out money to home viewers during the reruns. It's not as much because they are awarding less winners, but it's still money they are giving away for reruns. Bingo America is not a show which is made for GSN's standard practice of rerun abuse at all. It's made for a cycle of about once and that's it. It's a show that would make a lot of sense if they'd take a chance a few more than 40 episodes. Bingo America will definitely be back in the Fall. If I were GSN, I'd just think about maybe bringing it back a few weeks before the new episodes come out to remind people the show exists and it hasn't been canceled. A maneuver like this has hurt a lot of shows in the past. I'm in more shock that Whammy! is still so friggin popular. I've been assured by GSN that it's one of their higher rated shows which stuns me. All I'm saying is I'd think about reviving it if it is still that popular. Fremantle's apparently interested, as they're shopping it around the world still. It really can't be any worse than a million dollar cat game show, can it? Check out the GSN schedules on the sidebar. Schedules through August have been updated. I haven't been sent anything about September yet.
Read MoreView Comments (7)19Jun2008
GSN’s “Bingo America” Renewed for Second Season + Gas Promoion
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 sure to voice off and hopefully we can see some changes next season. Honestly, I was fine with the game play. The focus of the game is the at-home Bingo aspect so I'm not expecting any unbelievably groundbreaking game play, though something a bit more interesting would be welcomed. The presentation could really use some work, though. We get the point, host Patrick Duffy. You mark off the number when it's called. It doesn't take a reminder every two seconds to know how to play Bingo, the simplest game on the planet. The audience levels need help. It goes from sounding like a full audience to a bored crowd instantly. Either get them to act more excited or just put more applause track on it. Also, I really don't think getting a shot of them is needed constantly. Give co-host Crystal a bit more work too. Her job could have easily been done by Patrick, so give her a reason to be there. A new end game would be nice too, since the current one seems really fishy. There's some weird reason why people are getting matches so quickly. How about a few extra bonus balls in the hopper to get some variety, though. It's the same thing over and over and over. A bit of variety is always good. Don't do what Lingo did and let the show become too stale and repetitive. All in all, though, the only major issue I had was with the presentation. I was fine with the show in general, it's one of GSN's better efforts in
Read MoreView Comments (11)29May2008
Waiting for Bingo America money? It’s coming.
Nick posted two weeks ago that he got his $50 from being an at-home winner on Bingo America. I won a week and a half later, on April 11, the night when the in-house contestant won $100,000. I was expecting my $50 shortly after Nick's check arrived. I kept waiting and waiting and waiting. Lo and behold, in the mail this afternoon was my $50 check. GSN said it would take 6 to 8 weeks. It took almost 7 weeks. (Then again, GSN said it would be 4 to 6 weeks for me to get my PlayMania money last year, yet that took less than 2 weeks.) In a nutshell, if you've been waiting for your Bingo America winnings for a month or more, you'll get it within a few weeks. If you're one of the naysayers who has gone on a certain cable network's message board and have spewed comments about Bingo America being a scam, I will be more than glad to send you a scan of the $50 check as proof.
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