Comments on: Preview of GSN’s “Catch 21″

By: GhostOfGSN'sPast

GhostOfGSN'sPast — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:09:34 +0000

In case everyone’s been under a rock the past day, GSN is indeed now promoting it with their new “Catch A Game” retro-60’s surfer dood campaign.

If I hear that song once more I think I’m going to hurl…

By: Pierre Kelly

Pierre Kelly — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:14:22 +0000

How come you didn’t mention Spike’s cousin “Top Card?” It was a classic.

By: MrQuiz

MrQuiz — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:23:34 +0000

I saw the video “snippet” of CATCH-21. It’s not quite like GAMBIT, but who cares (really)? I mean, GAMBIT is a classic, and if one is building a game show around Blackjack, I can understand the temptation to draw comparasins.

Anyway, I hope CATCH-21 “catches” on…it could do reasonably well.

By: Doug Morris

Doug Morris — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:11:40 +0000

I’m sure I brought this up in an e-mail to Alex — but it’s worth repeating.

“Catch 21″ is slated to debut on July 21st. Express the date numerically and you get — 7/21. The numbers 7 and 21 are synonymous with casino gaming (7 is generally considered a lucky number; a “7″ symbol is often found on many slot machines; 21…self-explanatory).

Whether or not that debut date is intentional due to the above reasoning we, for now, won’t know. But GSN should aggressively promote this series yesterday.

If after the 4th of July weekend we don’t see GSN’s corner bug with some blackjack artwork included therein, someone should wake up the PR department.

By: Marc Power

Marc Power — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:07:22 +0000

I’m glad Ron Pearson isn’t hosting catch 21, he wasn’t terrible on Casino but he jsut doesn’t seem to be the right personality to me anyway.