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.