GSN just seems to have forgotten how to make a good game show. Camoflauge and That’s The Question are not bad by any means, but just think—do any of them even come close to the tension when we saw that spin for $100 grand on Russian Roulette? Or even the final decision on Friend or Foe? (I cannot believe I am praising that show) GSN needs to get Gunnar Wettenberg back in the studio with Mark Walberg and the rest of the crew and start producing new Russian Roulette episodes now. I mean it. Quiet word games with $5000 grand prizes may be enjoyable but they won’t cut it forever.

But maybe Grand Slam is a good sign. It shows GSN isn’t afraid to put up a big-money (relatively, in this day and age) hard quiz that doesn’t need shock value like Without Prejudice does. Russian Roulette couldn’t have been that expensive to produce, you’d see typical winnings of about $2200 a show with a few $10,000 winners and maybe one or two $100,000 winners a season.