GSN Plans Christmas and New Year’s Marathons
GSN has two upcoming marathons for those of you two are classic fans and people who like the newer shows. We’ll start with Christmas. On December 24th GSN will be showing a marathon of the Ray Combs edition of Family Feud 9:00AM ET to 6:00PM ET. Episodes will consist of a Winner Takes All tournament as well as several Christmas themed special editions. On Christmas Day you can see a Richard Dawson marathon of Feud. It’ll go on from the same times; 9:00AM ET to 6:00PM ET. The first two episodes are definitely Christmas themed. The rest don’t have any special labels so I’m not sure. Some of you are great at reading the PDF schedules so I’m sure you can decipher it.
The New Year 2010 marathons are a bit bizarre. The entire week of December 28th will feature a marathon of different shows each weekday. Classic fans will be happy on Monday. The first marathon on the 28th will be the Gene Rayburn edition of Match Game from 9:00AM ET until 3:00PM ET. After that you all get to pissed off as classics completely disappear from the network until around 2:00AM ET. Tuesday the 29th has a Deal or No Deal marathon from 9:00AM ET to 3:00PM ET. Wednesday the 30th is the Richard Karn edition of Family Feud. Thursday the 31st is a 1 VS 100 marathon so there’s some good news. Then on Friday, January 1st, is a marathon of the John O’Hurley edition of Family Feud. So just to point this out: in the course of the Christmas week and New Year week period, there will be 64 hours of Family Feud out of a potential 266 hours. That’s 24% of the schedule for two weeks containing Family Feud. Nearly a quarter of it. Just sayin’.
Not to mention Deal or No Deal is getting something like a two day marathon over Thanksgiving, so we’re getting a ton of the shows run over and over and over. And while on one hand I agree with people who still watch the network that it sucks, from a business standpoint you can’t fully blame them. Run the shows that get the highest ratings over the Holidays. No reason to commit suicide during those periods. We’ll see if anything happens with it.
Y2Play! Was that the one hosted by Charles Nelson Reilly? We got to see the last episode of Jeopardy 2.0 . I thought the best was the Halloween failed pilots sepcials.
I doubt Password will be gone for good. Look at Pyramid. "The $25,000 Pyramid" was gone for YEARS…and, it came back. Same with Card Sharks. I'm sure it'll rotate.
As for the marathons, I agree with the previous posts…they HAVE to bring back classics. The Feast of Favorites was something I looked forward to every year. So, seeing marathons of recent stuff is extremely disappointing.
I doubt Password will be gone for good. Look at Pyramid. "The $25,000 Pyramid" was gone for YEARS…and, it came back. Same with Card Sharks. I'm sure it'll rotate.
As for the marathons, I agree with the previous posts…they HAVE to bring back classics. The Feast of Favorites was something I looked forward to every year. So, seeing marathons of recent stuff is extremely disappointing.
Yet Hollywood Squares is scheduled Weekends at 9am starting this Saturday, throwing that logic away. ;)
I'm not quite sure I can stand YEARS more of the current schedule, sans-classics. :(
I'm not quite sure I can stand YEARS more of the current schedule, sans-classics. :(
no Dick Clark on NYE on GSN??? no way !!! its a tradition, has GSN finally not only Jumped the shark, but swallowed the whale
you know if they will be airing the Art James announced episodes?