05Mar2008
“Russian Roulette” Officially Rejoins GSN
Were those Russian Roulette clips I posted a few days ago enough of a hint? GSN has officially acquired the reruns to Russian Roulette from Sony after a few months of trying (at least since December). They are giving the show a gigantic chance to shine as well. Russian Roulette will air Tuesdays through Saturdays at 10PM ET starting April 1st.
For those that don’t remember, it’s a general big money quiz show but with a twist. If you lose, you fall through a hole in the floor. It’s seriously one of the best game shows in a while and you owe it to yourself to watch if you haven’t yet. Who knows, if enough people watch, maybe it’ll show up again in new episodes….
Sweet! I should get my DVR ready when I can… :D
Wait… GSN had to haggle with Sony for the rights to RR? I thought Sony still owned GSN, or at least part of it. And in any event, wouldn’t the shows be in GSN’s library anyway? Someone needs to explain this to me.
Still, it’s good news. I was beginning to wonder why they continually re-air the same episodes of Chain Reaction, TTQ and Camoflage over and over again when they had other originals with far better production values available to them…
if all watch and pester gsn enough to make new eps. it could happen. only thing is I doubt (at least at this time) that Mark walberg would be available, he’s already doing moment of truth, antiques roadshow and will soon have trivial pursuit.
As was mentioned on one of the other boards, they could easily knock off 65 episodes (tapings) over a week or two if they were interested in reviving it.
Well, I’m really happy to see this show back on the GSN schedule. One of the best shows from the Bob Boden era. What I would like to know is why they had to haggle over rights? Wouldn’t all the shows that they air be in their library? Doesn’t Sony own about 50% of GSN? This doesn’t make sense to me, but I’m happy to have the show back on the air. Maybe the best and most inovative show to come around in a long while.
Haggling or not, I’m happy about it. I really hope this show gets a second chance on a big network (or in syndication).
A Russian Roulette revival shouldn’t be too much to tackle. Trivial Pursuit is anything but guaranteed at this point, The Moment of Truth is a weekly show, and Antiques Roadshow tapes on weekends in the summer. The Antiques Roadshow page shows two stops in June, two in July, and two more in August for episodes to air in 2009. I would love to see Mark in what was definitely his best show.
Sweet. This was my favorite of all of GSN’s originals so I’m glad to see it’ll be back – at least in reruns. I’d LOVE to see them redo this show and definitely with Mark.
YES! YES!! OMG YES!
Best GSN original, and possibly one of top shows of the 2000s!
Com’on, people falling down holes? It will never get old!!!
If the show does come back for another new run, I will definitely apply, seeing is that when the show was first on, I was under 18. Now in my 20s, bring on the drop zones!
Awesome! This is great news for GSN… How about putting some Friend Or Foe after R/R in the evenings ?
This is great news – of course, I’d love to see new episodes. My one concern is the redebut date of April 1st… April Fool’s day ? I’m afraid this is someone’s idea of a joke! :) I’ll believe it when I see it.
YEAAAAAAHHH! :D
That’s freakin’ sweet! I was hoping to see the show again sometime. When it aired originally, I lived in an area where GSN wasn’t offered (ya, can you imagine that!) Now, I live somewhere else and can’t wait to watch the show. I’ve only seen a couple of episodes.
I agree with the other WXman on this board… Ohio WX Man. I want to see re-runs of Friend of Foe too. Bring ‘em on!
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Finally, something worth watching in GSN primetime. It’s about time they brought this excellent show back!
And once again, GSN has proved fully to me that Goldhill makes an excellent president. This is just beyond brilliant. THANK YOU GSN! *celebrates* ^_^
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Russian Roulette is by far one of the best gameshows in the 2000′s. A revival in network television though would be really great because more people could see this great show than if it were revived on GSN because not everyone has GSN. How about a revival maybe on FOX or ABC should really look into this show. Up the top prize to $250,000 and have returning champs. If the network wanted to do an hour then you would have eight players instead of 4 although 30 minutes would be better. Start all players off with $500 and questions are worth $500 in round one, $1,000 in round two and $2,000 in round three. Then in the bonus round you could have 7 killer questions instead of 5 or 10 but the 7 killer questions 4 of them are multiple choice and three of them are brainteasers like from season 1. In the bonus round if you get all seven you win $25,000 and the right to turn that into $250,000 but if you don’t get all 7 you get $1,000 per correct answer and still get to come back next time and play Russian Roulette. I also like the ending to this show too with the phrase remember until next time watch your step.
Great idea; but unless the network doesnt change it much from what u said, the show will be as bad as all the others out there. I think we should just stick with the reruns.
@ Scott Meckley: How can you have eight players with only six drop zones? Hourlong formats in other countries use five players, FYI. Plus, if they used those dollar values, you’d lose some odd bucks if someone HAD to drop at the end of the round. Doubling what GSN used should work just fine, I think.
GSN is on a roll! (Lingo cancellation notwithstanding) Russian Roulette is a GREAT show, it needs to be revived! The reruns are great, but boy, if GSN or some other network could revive it, we would have yet another great active game show on board! Keep it up GSN, don’t stop now!
if you wanna go with a champion format, make the 250k a jackpot. The bonus round would add to the jackpot and each successive win reduces a drop zone. After each bonus round, give the option of guarunteed cash and the right to return or take the all or nothing one game of rr for the jackpot. That’ll make it more primetime appropriate.
RR’s coming back?!?! That does it! I’m getting DirectTV, I’ve been without GSN for far too long.
To dropzone5: In a one-hour version, you could have two heats of four players each, and have the two survivors showdown like the UK version did, with the winner playing the endgame for the star prize. It could work!