Sunday Night is Casino Night on GSN
So my car completely broke down yesterday. I spent basically all day yesterday either swearing on the side of the street or trying to get my car fixed. It’s why there was no news yesterday. But I did get a press release from GSN in my inbox last night that would have gone up. It’s a reminder that the channel’s poker programming, High Stakes Poker and World Poker tour are moving to Sunday nights starting this weekend, September 28th.
“We think poker on Sunday night is a great way for viewers to end their weekend and begin their week,” said Kevin Belinkoff, Vice President of Original Programming and Development at GSN. “With HIGH STAKES POKER and WORLD POKER TOUR, we’re proud to have the best poker in the world and we’re looking forward to establishing Sunday night on GSN as the home of poker on television.” And this is said as a love letter to the poker fans who they pissed off by initially canceling High Stakes Poker. But it has been confirmed the show’s coming back for a new season. I’m not that big of a fan of GSN’s poker programming, but I at least realize it’s one of their biggest shows and they could use something with some popularity.
The best part of this is the fact that they can now strip their normal prime time programming Monday-Friday. Bravo to GSN to put a good spin on the fact that they could really care less about poker anymore.
I only watch Poker Night every blue moon. Poker is not for me. I am more into the knowledge based game shows. I like Jeopardy, Trivial Pursuit, Wheel of Fortune. I also like Deal, too. I definitely do not like the Moment of Truth. There are too many hurt feelings.
Alex Davis, could let me know when there are game show tryouts for the Chicago area, if you get a free chance?
Poker is overrated.
I understand it’s popular, but then again, so is crap like 90210 (chick bait), Lost (convoluted as hell), DOND (the plodding NBC version, not the swift and spiffy syndicated series), and High School Musical (dragging an okay franchise to lower depths with every no-brainer sequel).
If poker’s the most popular show on GSN, then why haven’t they pushed past an 0.2 in the ratings since before the name change/degradation? For all the good he’s done, it’s time for CEO David Goldhill to return the show to its’ pre-’04 roots and give the people (namely the game show fans, the network’s true target) what they want: game shows (and lots of them, including lesser-knowns like The Joker’s Wild, Split Second, $ale Of The Century, Scrabble and pre-84/post-85 Press Your Luck).
This is an attack play on Fox Sports Net’s WPT time slot on Sunday Nights.
since GSN wants to have gambling on Sunday Nights I would love to see Card Sharks and them pick up High Rollers and add that to the mix. I personally would love to see all gameshows though including some GSN Ghave ( Split Second, Sale Of The Century with Jim Perry, Scrabble, $1,000,000 chance of a lifetime, Wipeout, Joker’s Wild, Chain Reaction Cullen Version and Edwards Version, Jackpot, Bumper Stumpers, Go ( even if Go were only ran on weekends) as far as originals I love Lingo, Russian Roulette, Whammy is decent are the only three originals I don’t mind seeing. If GSN wants to try originals why not revive some great classics and get my input on how to revive them ( Hot Potato, Go, Wipeout, Trivia Trap, Joker’s Wild)