We’re talking about syndication here, not primetime. DoND is still only on once, (or on some weeks twice) a week. Don’t worry about that, for now anyway.

In syndication it’s perfectly alright to have a hit show on five days a week.

Sounds mildly interesting, though I don’t know if it’ll do so hot here in the states. We’ll have to wait and see.

When I first saw Merv’s “scramble” game show, the first thing that popped in my mind, for some odd reason (yeah right) was Scrabble (my ideal world). Now, that would be a stretch, calling it a scramble show, but if this is, otherwise, another original idea out of Merv’s vault, I’ll be very interested to see what’s made of it. Heck, it’s not like his past track record with word games has been all that bad… ;)

Joker and Combination have a good chance of selling, coming from the “dream team” of Harry Friedman’s, and DoND, almost no matter who hosts, will also probably pass through pretty easily. However, I could be wrong, wouldn’t be the first time…

As for Catch Phrase and Connections, those caught me by surprise. I think they have the potential, and the current GS boom should help them out. I’d be interested to see, however, where they’d be slotted on the stations. They probably won’t be as good as Deal’s or Joker’s though, unfortunately, but with all that free time with the multiple talks going off, and the CW now in the daytime syndie lineups, there will be a lot of empty room, come next season…

As for Match Game… wow, I never saw that one coming. If any of the GSM shows, Press Your Luck would’ve been tops on my list, to return. I’d like to see MG return, but whether or not it will click will be a different story. IMHO, the reason the 70’s clicked was b/c of all the double entedre and risque humor, that was risqué THEN. Watching it now, a lot of it is not nearly as risque or double entedre-esque as it was 30 years ago, even though it still gives a good laugh or two.

To make MG work, I think a strong host, like Tom Bergeron, Jimmy Kimmel, or possibly another established comedian, would be needed, along with BETTER THAN D-List guests, like some established comedians. People won’t watch MG for the game, but for the comedy. How about, just giving it some preliminary thought, guests along the lines of Howie, Saget, Wanda Sykes, Dave Chappelle, Kelsey Grammar, and Martin Mull? Betty White, Vicki Lawrence, and C.N. Reilly could also make appearances, they’re still in good enough shape, as far as I know. Plus, there’s no reason Peter Marshall, Bob Eubanks, Jim Lange, and Chuck Woolery couldn’t unite with Barker and have classic GS’s week!

Just my thoughts. Either way, this is OUTSTANDING news, I can hardly control myself!!!

I hope it works out, don’t get me wrong, and if it does I [i]will[/i] watch it regardless… but I sure don’t have a good feeling about this. All we can hope for is that it strives to erase some of the bad memories of the ‘98-99 version.