NBC announced their Fall 2008 primetime schedule far in advance, as well as their Winter 2009 and Summer 2009. They are getting rid of a vast majority of their game shows and sticking with scripted which I suppose is good. I’m a gigantic 30 Rock fan so I’m glad to see it’s sticking around for a third season. However, we do have a casualty which was definitely a fan favorite. 1 VS 100 appears no where on any schedule which makes it either a last minute addition out of desperation or it’s canceled. It’s looking like the latter for now.
Deal or No Deal, NBC’s only shining spot at this point, is going to air Wednesdays at Fridays at 9:00PM ET. You know, Deal has always done strongly on Mondays at 8:00PM ET. I understand they are trying to do more scripted, but why you don’t put, admittedly, your biggest show in the slot in which it does the best confuses me. We’ll have the syndicated version which I have high hopes for at least. No other game show appears anywhere, so there we go. It’s truly a shame about 1 VS 100. It went from being an OK show to a great show to “eh” very quickly. Four different scoring formats and dumbing down the show drastically really hurt. I’d love to see it in syndication, but I won’t hold my breath. However, I wouldn’t put it past GSN picking up the reruns for the show which would not be a bad acquisition at all.
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