Comments on: Weekday Afternoon GSN Schedules Changes on November 9th

By: Michael Glickman

Michael Glickman — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 00:23:53 +0000

“Maybe because Lin Bolen wiped a whole lot of those thousands of episodes! RT !@shellygrrl Because the Marshall-era didn’t do well the first go-round. (Never mind that GSN picked up only 150 of the thousands of episodes of it.)”

I hate to tell you this, OriginalDonald, but wiping episodes had been NBC policy long before Lin Bolen arrived on the scene.

By: Roley S.

Roley S. — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 03:09:57 +0000

Why don't GSN raise funds for them to purchase the acquiring rights from Fremantlemedia and return a few shows back to GSN (Card Sharks, Press Your Luck, and yes, Let's Make A Deal)? Yes GSN should keep on airing Love Connection until it reaches the '88-'92 episodes.

By: Roley S.

Roley S. — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 03:00:47 +0000

Whoo hoooo!!!! Let's bring out the beer and champagne and celebrate!!! After a 16-month hiatus, I knew Love Connection would return. I would be great if they showed the 1988-1992 season again. I kind of like the set in the 1988-89 episodes. But, the sad part is that if they plan to air the 1984-1986 season, I guess it will be a long time that we will see the '88-'92 episodes again, or the 1998-1999 episodes for that matter. But, what the hell; if they plan to air the '84-'86 season, I have no problem with that. Any episode could be fair game. What y'all think??

By: Roley S.

Roley S. — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:09:57 +0000

By: Rich

Rich — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:16:51 +0000

I may be in minority of being glad that they are bringing Love COnnection back for now. :)
[with all the shows that were given back in March.. it's good to see that they still have the rights to something else]

Why: First, I want to see the old episodes. Second, LC is a show that has been on GSN for quite some time, in and out, so for nostalgic reasons, it should be on. Of course, I think it should be paired with Eubanks' "The Newlewed Game"

Third: At least it's not a celebrity-filled show like much of the schedule prior to this change [3 hrs in the first 6 were celeb-filled]

By: VmKid

VmKid — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:06:00 +0000

TRANSLATION: In my opinion, GSN should get rid of the poker shows.
MY COMMENT: Agreed. There's nothing else to watch on Sundays, and I don't know a single person who would watch poker on TV.

By: Robert Q. Spideyman

Robert Q. Spideyman — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:31:30 +0000

@Digifan, there's one huge problem with that. Those crappy poker shows as you call them, are good shows, only on for 1 night out of the week, and are getting respectable ratings for GSN. Although come this time next year when HSP gets the host change, then we might see a shrinking of the shows. But anyways. the Poker Shows are fine on Sundays and aren't doing any damage. Sure, they can get rid of WPT and replace that with some more poker specials or maybe make Sunday Night Casino Night and air some Celebrity Blackjack or World Series of Blackjack or talk to ESPN and get some WSOP replays or talk to Bravo and get some Celebrity Poker Show replays. Either way, Sunday night will always be home to Poker on GSN, at least for the foreseeable future.

By: @Digifan23

@Digifan23 — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:16:56 +0000

here's what GSN needs to do IMO scrabble style it's five letter word the clue is: GSN needs to ditch these crapy shows POKER

By: Wayne

Wayne — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:13:15 +0000

I understand sometimes economic forces are at play, and sometimes even copyrights and other contractual factors can be at play here; but it seems hard to believe of the thousands of game shows in history that are still in existance and owned by somebody, that the owners of these games are more content to let them get dusty than make a few bucks off of them.

By: DeVares

DeVares — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:57:48 +0000

To @ palmercomm: That’s true, but, GSN is own by Sony, so, if anything, they should air any game show in the Sony Pictures Television Library.

By: Xavier

Xavier — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:17:43 +0000

No. They're still on at the same times.

By: @palmercomm

@palmercomm — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:57:08 +0000

You'd have to pay out to Fremantle, Sony, CBS Television Distribution (they own the H-Q library and Wipeout), and Warner Bros. I like the schedule and support you, but it's unrealistic.

By: juliaz12345

juliaz12345 — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:28:24 +0000

Those shows would be great to have on the network, but you have to think about money. While GSN did make a few bad decisions mid-decade, they're OK now. You have to think about the economics of getting all those shows. It's not worth it for the network. They tried Tic Tac Dough out and it was probably expensive for them. Plus, it was their lowest rated classic. This day and age, networks would rather play one show for an hour instead of two shows, when that one show is more likely to keep viewers there for an hour. That's why TV Land Sacrificed their whole late night schedule for Roseanne for a month or two. I mean, you think GSN is bad at over abusing Family Feud, TV Land at one point was playing Roseanne a total of 8 hours a day! Then slowly, they added different programming. They used to play loads of different programming overnight but scrapped all of it for Roseanne.

While that's just one example, it shows you what a classic TV network that mixes some new programming in to the schedule has to do sometimes to make money. Just wait for the economics of TV to change a little bit when the economy as a whole recovers. You'll hopefully see a few more classics on the schedule. Just be happy that we're seeing GSN in the first place. Some bigger companies are shutting down their low rated networks. FLN, formerly Fine Living Network, is going by the wayside for "The Cooking Channel" and Fox Reality is shutting down and replacing it is "National Geographic Wild". So, be happy that we still have GSN.

By: @DOriginalDonald

@DOriginalDonald — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:11:50 +0000

Maybe because Lin Bolen wiped a whole lot of those thousands of episodes! RT !@shellygrrl Because the Marshall-era didn't do well the first go-round. (Never mind that GSN picked up only 150 of the thousands of episodes of it.)

By: Scott Meckley

Scott Meckley — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:13:12 +0000

I too think the network has gone down hill. Sale Of The Century and Scrabble to me should have been picked up at least a season of these shows. People enjoyed SOTC And Scrabble. Other gameshows they should also try to pick up too are High Rollers because its a fun dice game and GSN doesn’t have a dice game, Wipeout the 1989 gameshow hosted by Peter Tomarken, and $1,000,000 chance of a lifetime hosted by Jim Lange. It would bring some more variety to the network besides Feuds, Match Game, Passwords, Millionaires. How about this for a daytime lineup schedule see below from 8:00 A.M.- 3:00 P.M.
Weekdays
8:00- match game 73-78
8:30- Super Password
9:00- Card Sharks- Perry
9:30- $1,000,000 chance of a lifetime
10:00- Wheel Of Fortune
10:30- Jeopardy
11:00- $25,000 Pyramid
11:30- Family Feud Dawson
Noon- High Rollers- wink martindale
12:30- Card Sharks- Eubanks
1:00- Sale Of The Century
1:30- Scrabble
2:00- Wipeout
2:30- $100,000 Pyramid
3:00- Lingo

Weekends

8:00- Password Plus- Kennedy
8:30- Super Password
9:00- Card Sharks- Raffety
9:30- $1,000,000 Chance Of A Lifetime
10:00- All New Family Feud with Ray Combs
11:00- $100,000 Pryamid
11:30- Family Feud- Dawson
Noon- High Rollers- Wink Martindale
12:30- $25,000 Pryamid
1:00- Sale Of The Century
1:30- Scrabble
2:00- Wipeout
2:30- Lingo
3:00- 1 VS 100

I think that both of those schedules would bring some variety to the network and while I like Feuds, Matchs, Passwords, I think it time to see some other shows too on the network. Im not saying going back to 97 when you didn’t have hardly any Goodson Todman gameshows on the network. Maybe a bunch of people ought to get together put there money together and start up there own gameshow network with nearly all the classics people knew and love and some classics that maybe many didn’t get to see the first time around.