GSN Updates Schedule: Half Hour “1 VS 100″ Banished to Weekends
The return of the popular quiz show 1 VS 100 appears to be short lived. GSN is making some schedule changes and 1 VS 100 is seemingly on its way out. GSN’s original version of the canceled NBC show, now starring Carrie Ann Inaba, is facing severe cutbacks. Starting Monday, February 21st, half-hour 1 VS 100 will lose all weekday slots and only air weekends at 5:00PM ET. The Bob Saget edition, originally airing on NBC, will still air weekends at 12:00PM ET.
To make up for this loss, there are a few changes. The best news comes for Catch 21 which has suddenly been promoted closer to the rest of the original programming. It’s moving out of the 4:30PM ET slot and coming to 5:00PM ET. The Richard Karn edition of Family Feud will air at 4:30PM ET instead. The NBC hour-long edition of Deal or No Deal will air at 7:00PM ET, taking the place of the block of the half-hour editions of 1 VS 100 and Deal or No Deal. Richard Karn’s Family Feud will take the 10:00PM ET time slot.
Catch 21 logo, courtesy of GSN
So what happened? 1 VS 100 just wasn’t doing that well. It started off OK but it hemorrhaged viewers towards the end, all of which apparently just did not accept the admittedly cheaper version. Most of the complaints we heard were from people who just could not distinguish between the NBC and GSN version and wondered why it became so cheap. Recent viewership figures have 1 VS 100 hovering around the mid-to-low 300,000 viewer level, with Friday, February 4th, only seeing 214,000 viewers. GSN has removed shows that repeat poorly and brought them back, though. Bingo America from a few years back is a good example of this. However, it’s hard to keep momentum. We’ll see what happens.
However, Catch 21‘s promotion may be because of its recent great ratings in its 4:30PM time slot. The show seemed dead when it moved to there, but ratings are showing people followed it. It’s been scoring in the low-to-mid 400,000 viewer area, beating out The Newlywed Game at 6:00PM ET occasionally. A high figure recently comes from Thursday, February 3rd, with 456,000 viewers. This current season of Catch 21 is made up of 130 episodes and I don’t believe they’ve gone through them all so I’d expect to see some promotion. I like the show. It’s not the best thing in the world but it’s not bad and it does the trick for a half hour. Wouldn’t be bad to see it stick around.
Check out the PDF schedules at the very bottom of the page for all the information.
Shame to see 1 vs 100 get screwed like that: it was as good of an adaptation of the original as GSN was gonna do. Nice to see Catch21 get some better mojo, maybe move it to 7:00 or 7:30, teamed with the new Bill Engvall “Lingo” coming up this spring…
I am not surprised about 1 vs. 100 but Alfonso Ribero is supposed to be in a sitcom called Things We Do for Love this fall. So will he be able to do both that and Catch 21 at the same time?
BTW, It’s OT but he will be reunited with his TV dad James Avery on Things we Do for Love.
I never watched a full episode of the GSN 1 Vs 100, but from the clips, the contestants weren’t the greatest at times, and that (plus the cheapness compared to the NBC version) doomed it. What really gets me here, though, is that DOND & Karn’s Feud get even more play! Because those shows just had no chance with them being on so few times. :-D
Seriously, there’s nothing else that could go in those slots? Oh well, it IS GSN, the network for overdoing certain shows (and hosts).
I love the gameplay of 1 vs. 100. However, it needs to start being a quiz show and not a game show, which in 2011 means contestants more like those on Millionaire: fun to watch but not annoying, and not prompted what to say. It needs to be more geniune.
With the lower dollar amounts, I do not need contestants overly excited that they won $800…it comes off as fake and unrelatable. Contestants should not need to explain their thought process on every.single.question. Fake example: Which one of these pizza companies does not deliver? “Well, I use the microwave alllll the time, and I know I love me some pepperoni (starts mimicking eating slices of pizza, host starts to dance, while audience hoots and hollers and claps), so I’m goona go with DiGorno”. These people aren’t relatable. Their annoying and coached. And they don’t have to be super excited they won a small amount, no one would be. They can be happy, but why waste 3 minutes on if they’re gonna go for $900 or go for the mob? Of course they’re gonna go for the Mob: they only have $800! It’s a cheaper production, that doesn’t mean the contestants have to act like $400 is a big deal and that there’s an actual chance they’ll want to take the money and run. They should get excited when they win the larger amounts.This is a quiz show, not Deal or No Deal.
With the over excitement, the audience DOES NOT NEED TO CLAP WHEN THE ANSWER IS LOCKED IN. Why are they excited that the contestant locked it in? Imagine if on Jeopardy the audience clapped in between every time they gave their answer and Trebek told them if they are correct. Maybe clapping for the final question answer being locked in, but not every.single.question. They can clap when the contestant gets it correct, but the gameplay goes so slowly with all the clapping. And once they’ve locked in, we don’t need drawn-out silence before the answer is revealed. Do what Meredith does…either wait a second and say they got it right, or when you do want to build suspense, have the host talk and tease, not silence.
Last change needed: The mob looks odd on the video wall. If their images are made more of a square than a rectangle on its side, it would look better.
That’s my rant. Make these changes GSN and I will watch your show daily. Anyone else agree?
Agreed 100%
Completely agree.
Well, that, and if you listen carefully to the music you can hear when a contestant’s got an answer wrong. It’s rather annoying to know through all the “suspense” that it’s all for naught and that they should just get on for it.
Yes! I’ve noticed that when they get it right, there’s a gradually increasing sound that comes before the trumpet call, and when they get it wrong, there are lots of deep drum beats just before the wrong answer cue is played. A little annoying for people who understand that!
I notice that all the time. Occasionally, GSN will get the music cues mixed up, or they’ll speed up the showing of the correct answer to try and down-play the music effects, but it’s often very noticeable.
But I believe even NBC had this problem as well. Endemol should really use the same music theme, regardless of whether the contestant’s answer is right or wrong. Don’t ask me why they decided on 2 separate themes. Because people like us will pick up on those things, and if we hear those 3 deep drum beats before the answer is revealed, we’ll know 9 times out of 10 that the contestant got the wrong answer.
Agreed to all the previous comments – especially the drum sounds.
Well, too bad – this show’s got potential. They should have a second chance.
I think that they should have thrown “Poll the Mob” out and put “Ask the Mob” in – or just put both of them!
And for Poll the Mob, if – say – 32 out of 50 chose A, and got it correct, why OH WHY do they showed the 18 wrong mob members one by one? That just makes the show more boring. They should show the wrong mobsters all at once. It speeds up time, you know.
To add on: I can deal with low dollar amounts. Lingo’s a perfect example: low money yet fun and genuine contestants, they high-five, they don’t go nuts. I can’t deal with fake excitement over it and asking them if they wanna take the money and run. It comes off as cheap.
Well that’s a shame. It’s such a good show with such a good premise, it’s sad to see it squandered with such a small budget. There’s not really much to cheer about with 50-some-odd people are splitting $1,500
I couldn’t agree more! I would like to see a major network (maybe CBS since they are lacking any primetime game shows) to pick up the show and revert it back to its hour long Million dollar format. try to bring Bob Saget back too! I hate when million dollar shows get dumbed down to $50,000. This is not Wheel of Fortune or Jeopardy!!! I would like to see it back in national primetime.
Just like I have a feeling that someday a network will try to revive the hour long Deal or No Deal,. It may not be soon, but down the road I think it’s possible since shows get revived all the time (ie, Family Fued, Let’s Make a Deal, Pyramid)
I didn’t like the new 1 vs 100. But it doesn’t really matter now anyway since Cablevision pulled GSN from its family package and put it in its Sports Pack. Because guessing if the next card is higher or lower than a ten is a sport, apparently.
Maybe the cable company thought poker qualified as a sport since it’s on ESPN, so they put GSN on the sports tier
As for 1 vs. 100, it was a shame to see the show get screwed over by a small budget and forced excitement.
I think they should’ve made the top prize $100,000 from the start, and used a money tree which would’ve been almost identical to the one NBC used from episode 6 onwards.
It’s always disappointing to sit and watch a good format get wrecked. Indeed, the show has potential.
The show suffers from the dame dang problem all shows except Jeopardy has…contestants who are prettier and more bubbly than smart. Too over-enthusiastic…too phony.
Borderline lousy hosting. I can’t watch even a great game with a lousy host…I quit watching this a few weeks into the run.
It really doesn’t matter to me if somebody wins 5,000 or 50,000…as long as it’s an exciting and thought provoking game. GSN almost had it with this one…a few tweeks and it could be great.