“The Money List” and “20Q” Flip on GSN’s Big Saturday Night Schedule
I haven’t heard anything ratings-wise from GSN’s Big Saturday Night since the debut, but given the updates to the BSN format, the fact that it’s revamping in a few weeks, and now this schedule change, I assume it’s not doing all that well. Starting this week, July 18th, 20Q and The Money List will be flipping spots on the schedule. This means The Money List will be featured at 8:00PM ET and 20Q at 9:30PM ET. All the weekday repeats are gone now as well.. Every weekday at midnight will resume to be the Regis Philbin edition of Who Wants to be a Millionaire and weekdays from 8:00PM ET to 10:00PM ET will yet again be Richard Karn’s Family Feud, Meredith Vieira’s Millionaire, John O’Hurley’s Feud, and another Vieira Millionaire.
So needless to say the weekday replays did not do well at all. At least the schedule is looking semi-normal again. I think it’s also a safe guess that The Money List is doing better than 20Q unless they decided to swap for shiggles. I like 20Q. It definitely was far better than what I figured. However, The Money List is by far the better show. Glad to see them at least trying to make this work instead of giving up. Just a few more weeks of this until Deal or No Deal takes the 10:00PM ET slot on Saturdays and the rest of the shows go to their normal hour length.
Just a suggestion that I repeat over and over if anyone at the network listens. One of the best things from the rebranding from Game Show Network to GSN was having essentially the normal schedule until 10:00PM ET. From 10PM to midnight, each weekday had a different set of shows. It would really do some good to look at this scheduling format and mix things up a tiny bit. You never hear much good coming from that 10PM two-hour block as it is. It would give them a lot of mileage for their hour-long originals and their other high rated shows, like 1 VS 100, which don’t have a ton of episodes. Think about it. You don’t have to bribe people to watch by throwing tens of thousands of dollars in their face on a dead TV day. It’s been proven over and over that a good scheduling technique involving a majority of good originals in the marquis will bring people in more effectively.
This isn't DIRECTLY specific to this post, but I've always felt GSN should create a weekly 30-minute game show news program, coupled with a 30-minute interview show. Like a weekly version of those documentary specials they've done before OR like one of the GSN Live personalities ust interviewing game show people. I've always felt having that like every Saturday at 7 or something was a great idea. Just venting…
I personally like the idea of showing a different 1-hour show during the 10p-12a timeblock weekdays.
If it were me, you'd have "Greed" on Mondays; "20Q" on Tuesdays; "Twenty-One" on Wednesdays; "The Money List" on Thursdays; "1 vs. 100" on Fridays.
After all, their vertivision blocks worked well several summers ago. Why not try that line-up to spice up those evening timeslots?
That's a great idea, my namesake friend. Only here's how I'd do it:
Mon. Deal or No Deal
Tues. The Money List
Wed/ 20Q
Thur. Twenty-One
Fri. 1 vs 100
The only reason why I left Deal off of my schedule is because it already gets a lot of airtime during the week.
The other shows I mentioned only get played no more than 4x during the week, whereas Deal has 8 playings.
It is a good idea. have a model like the traditional networks, except, GSN would air reruns. TNT and USA are going with the traditional network model, why not GSN?
I have nothing to add to the discussion. I just think the woman in the photo looks like she's wearing a GSN hat.
LOL. I didn't think about that before, but I can definitely see it.
On a more somber note: I can see how the first airings on Saturday won't do well. I don't understand why the weekday replay are doing poorly, because it's not the same as when they would repeat an episode of TNG or C21 you saw earlier that day.
So the latest "new" BSN format is to have the bulk of the content air in two segments – one between Money List and 20Q, and the other after 20Q — or at about 9:10 and 10:40 PM ET.
Basically, instead of spreading the badness throughout the three hours, there are now two concentrated 20-minute blocks of badness. OK, so I've only seen one block, but after the GSI sketch, I think I'm pretty much throwing in the towel on this. It's only a month until BSN is retired and Deal reruns fill the third hour on Saturdays, right?