Saturday, June 28, 2008

GSN Family Feud-A-Thon Tomorrow!

If you have nothing to do tomorrow, then watch GSN tomorrow for the Family Feud-A-Thon. For 6 hours, spend the day with Richard Dawson, Ray Combs, Richard Karn, and John O'Hurley. They will give you the best episodes of Family Feud ever. From big wins to funny moments, this marathon will have it all. So make sure to catch the Feud-A-Thon tomorrow on GSN.

Family Feud-A-Thon

11:00am-1:00pm: Richard Dawson Episodes

1:00pm-3:00pm: Ray Comb Episodes

3:00pm-4:00pm: Richard Karn Episodes

4:00pm-5:00pm: John O'Hurley Episodes

Friday, June 27, 2008

Game Show Clip of The Week!

This week's Game Show Clip comes from Match Game. This moment is from the Syndicated years. Watch as Panelist Charles Nelson Reilly gets put in front of the Skinny Mic and hosts Match Game while Gene Rayburn takes a turn as a Panelist. Very funny moment.



Once again, thanks to Mrmatchgame for this clip.

Match Game - Weekdays at 1:30pm during GSN Live
Weekends at 11:00am on GSN

Drew gives Price crew Free Pizza!

This shows that Drew is one of the nicest people in the world. Tomorrow will be the last taping of Season 36 on The Price Is Right. So to celebrate, Drew is having 45 pizza's from his favorite Pizza Parlor in Ohio, deliver the Pizza for the whole staff of The Price Is Right. The total for the Pizza's is going to be $450, but that does not even include Shipping.

I say this is a great way to finish out the season that for a time last season, was looking very grim. Drew has came on board though, and has taken the show to a new level. Lets hope for an even better season 37!

The Price Is Right - Weekdays at 11am E on CBS

The Price is Right Season Finale - July 17th at 11am E on CBS

GSN's Newlywed and Dating Game hosts announced

As I posted a few weeks ago on this, GSN is making new versions of the classic Game Shows The Newlywed Game and The Dating Game. Right now they have two hosts announced. The two hosts will be Kim Coles for The Dating Game and Judy Gold for The Newlywed Game. GSN's departing Senior Vice President, Jamie Roberts said "We want unusual canidates for these two shows" and that's what they have.

I don't really know much about Judy Gold, but I do know Kim Coles. Both could add some different flavor to both shows. Out of the two, I think Gold is going to have to work the hardest.

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Programming Note!

Just want to post this up to remind everybody that NBC's Celebrity Family Feud is debuting tonight. The show which will be hosted by Al Roker, will pit two celebrities and their Families against eachother. There will be two games each show, and the winners will compete for $50,000 in Fast Money! It looks like a lot of fun, and I hope many will be watching.

Here is a 20 second promo from NBC.


Celebrity Family Feud - Premieres tonight at 8pm/7c on NBC

Saturday, June 21, 2008

Game Show Clip of The Week!

I am going to try to do this every week. Every Saturday I will post up a new video from a Game Show that either features a Big Win or a Funny Moment. Sometimes I may even post up a rare Game Show from way back when. So this week's first Game Show Clip of the week is from Card Sharks. This is from the Pilot of the Hi-Lo game. Here is the Money Cards. Thanks to Mrmatchgame for the clip.

GSN's Bingo America renewed for second Season, plus how you can win free gas

GSN's Bingo America has been renewed for a second season. New episodes of the Interactive Game Show will begin in the fall. Hosts Patrick Duffy and Cyrstal Wallash will return to host and co-host the show.

Game Show Network wants to give you a chance to win free gas. Starting on Monday, June 23rd viewers who want to win the free gas have to tune into Bingo America at 7:00pm each weeknight to get the Bonus Bingo numbers. Beginning Tuesday, June 24, the first player to call in to GSN LIVE (1-877-7-GSN BINGO) at 1PM ET/Noon C and recite the winning pair of all the Bingo Bonus Numbers from the previous night's BINGO AMERICA episode (Friday numbers for Monday call-ins) will win a gas card worth $500. And, any player who downloads at least one free BINGO AMERICA game-card a day for any five days throughout the two-week promotion* will be automatically entered for a chance to win "free gas for a year!"

The winner for the "Free Gas for a year" will be announced on July 8th during GSN Live!

Bingo America - Monday-Friday @ 7pm e/6pm c Weekends @ 4:30pm e/3:30pm c

GSN Live - Monday-Friday during your favorite Classic Game Shows 12pm E/9am P

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

TBS' new version of Match Game

We finally have some more info on this new version of Match Game that Cable channel TBS is looking to do. Nothing about the rules have been revealed but 2 panelists and the host has finally been revealed.

Two of the six panelists on the show will be Comedians Sarah Silverman and Norm Mcdonald. Silverman can be annoying, but Norm is very funny and looking at his Celebrity Millionaire appearance in 2000, he is very smart. He went on to win $500,000 for his favorite charity, but could have won a million if host Regis Philban would have allowed him to go on.

Now the host. The host is a fomer Mad TV cast member named Andy Daly. He was on Mad TV from 2000-2002. To tell the truth, I have never heard of this man. And that is mostly because I have never once watched Mad TV. People on the game show site "The Game Show Forum" say that he is pretty funny. This could be good and it may not be good.

Source for host: http://aspecialthing.com/smf/index.php?PHPSESSID=o5n1nvi6d20jfdre9ag475rg60&topic=8993.msg182409#new

Source for Panel members: http://www.ocatv.com/shows/show/210

Match Game - Tapings for either the pilot or the regular show begin on Thursday.

Monday, June 16, 2008

Daytime Emmy "Game Show" Winners!

Looks like Game Shows are not good enough anymore to make the regular broadcast of the Daytime Emmy Awards. The winners were announced Yesterday at the Daytime Emmy "Craft" Awards. Here are your winners....

Makeup: "The Price is Right" (CBS)
Game Show Host: Alex Trebek, "Jeopardy!" (Syndicated)
Game/Audience Participation Show: "Cash Cab" (Discovery Channel)

Hopefully next year the game shows can come back to the big spotlight again.

Thanks to Randy West who posts at The Game Show Forum for these results.

Saturday, June 14, 2008

Celebrity Family Feud Premiere Next Week!

The long running game show, Family Feud is returning to primetime television with Celebrities joining it. The primetime version will be hosted by Today Show Weatherman and host Al Roker. Current host of the Syndicated version of Feud, John O'Hurley was too busy to host this version. The show will be set on the same set and mostly everything from the daytime version will be brought to nighttime. More on the small changes in a bit. But first, lets get to the celebs.

-Bill Engvall’s family VS Larry the Cable Guy’s family
-Vivica A. Fox’s family VS Mo’Nique’s family
-American Chopper family VS Christopher Knight’s family
-Corbin Bernsen’s family VS Margaret Cho’s family
-Ice T’s family VS the Rivers family
-Raven-Symone’s family VS Wayne Newton’s family
-The Kardashians VS Deion Sanders’s family
-Tiki Barber’s family VS Ed McMahon’s family
-The Hickeys VS The Camden County All-Stars, both from My Name is Earl
-The Office VS American Gladiators
-Vincent Pastore’s family VS The Girls Next Door
-Kathie Lee Gifford’s family VS Dog the Bounty Hunter’s family

To tell the truth, this is really not a big celebrity list. It is just the same D-list celebs that these new game shows can get. Why couldn't they get some of the Million Dollar Password Celebs play. I will mostly watch this to see how Roker does as Feud host.

Each Family will be competing in the Feud for $50,000 for their favorite Charity.

Now the changes. As I said before, the set will remain the same. Their are a few changes to make it look more primetimey (if that's even a word). The podiums where the familys stand is now black and the logo is much more shiny. The theme has also changed. NBC will revert back to the classic theme "The Feud" instead of the current theme "The Party Theme". Those are the only changes known right now. If more are revealed before premiere day, I will be sure to post them up.

Celebrity Family Feud - Premieres Tuesday, June 24th at 8:00pm.

New "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" Season Auditions!

The Syndicated version of Millionaire is heading into its 6th season. If you want to be apart of this shows 6th season, then you may want to try out at the following places....

June 23rd: Sacramento, CA; Jackson Rancheria Casino and Hotel
June 25th: Las Vegas, NV; Cannery Casino and Hotel
June 27th: Atlanta, GA; More info to come
August 11th: Minneapolis, MN
August 13th: Detroit, MI
August 15th: Washington, DC

For more info, go here: http://millionairetv.com/info-road.html

Also for the new season, the show will be adding new theme weeks to spruce up the show. Included in these theme weeks will be the regular "Netflix Million Dollar Movie Week" and "Pay for a Wedding Week", but they will also do a week where they will have contestants with Celebrity names. If you or someone you know has a real good celebrity name, then you should try out for this week. The next theme week is Halloween week, where people will of course be dressed up and many of the questions will have to do with Halloween. Most likely, the best costumes will be who plays for that week. The final one will be 3 generations week. For the first time ever, three people will play Millionaire at the same time. They are looking for from 3 different generations. For example you could have a Grandfather, Father, and Son. Kids 12 and over can play during this week. Here is more info for the theme weeks: http://millionairetv.com/info-specialty.html

Millionaire New Season- Begins September 8th (Check Local Listings)

Thank you to Buzzerblog for the links.

Thursday, June 12, 2008

Programming Reminder!

I just want to post this up in case you are all in a box. Tonight will be the return of the "Dame of Game Shows", Betty White on Million Dollar Password. This will make her the first celebrity to appear on all 6 versions of Password since 1961. Be sure to catch her in action on Password, tonight!

Million Dollar Password- airs tonight at 8pm E/7pm C

Monday, June 9, 2008

GSN still in talks with World Poker Tour

This has nothing to do with game shows, but it does have something to do with GSN's future. The network is still in talks right now with the WPTE discussing the future of World Poker Tour. The network aquired the show under former president, Rich Cronin who was a huge poker fan. But he stepped down from his post last August. In that month, David Goldhill who was a former president of Universal Television Group. Ever since he came into office, everything and everyone from Cronin's era has departed. GSN's fourth highest rated show, Lingo was put on hiatus, Highstakes Poker was cancelled, and now WPT may be on the way out. Goldhill did comment on this saying "The World Poker Tour has been a great partner and the show continues to perform strongly on our network. We are continuing discussions with WPTE regarding how we may be able to work together – including perhaps broadcasting parts of Season VII.”

As a Poker hater, I am really happy about this. Now it is time for GSN to put focus back on the Game Shows. I just hope the WPTE looks for a new home instead of trying to negotiate with GSN.

Friday, June 6, 2008

GSN Schedule Overhaul

GSN is ready to change the schedule starting July 21st. This is when they will premiere a new Game Show called Catch-21. Right now this is a working title, which means the name could change before it airs. It is a revival of the classic Wink Martindale game show Gambit. This will be one of the shows to take a slot on the GSN Summertime Schedule.

Daytime
Many changes will come to the morning schedule. The first change will begin with Love Connection. It will be taken off of the schedule and be replaced with Tic Tac Dough. 9:30am continues to be Bill Cullen's Blockbusters. At 10:00am, GSN will insert Super Password which will leave the 12:00pm slot. At 10:30am, GSN will bring back Ray Comb's version of Family Feud. At 11:00am and 11:30am, GSN will continue to air Let's Make A Deal and Press Your Luck at their same times.

GSN Live
During GSN's GSN Live, there will be some changes made. At 12:00pm, Jeopardy will appear leaving its 2:00pm slot. At 12:30pm, Wheel of Fortune takes the slot. The 1-2:00pm slots continue to be Card Sharks and Match Game '76. 2:00pm sees the insertation of Family feud with Richard Dawson. Password Plus continues to air at 2:30pm.

Afternoons
At 3:30pm, GSN will replace Friend or Foe with Lingo. Friend or Foe has not performed well in the 3:30 slot. At 4:00pm, George Gray's version of Weakest Link takes a slot while Karn's Feud moves in at 4:30pm. Chain Reaction will then take a slot at 5:00pm.

Evenings
GSN will now air Catch-21 at 7:30pm. It will replace Lingo. It will also take the place of Chain Reaction at 11:00pm.

Everything else on the schedule remains the same. Take a look at it to see when your favorite show will air if it has been moved.

Thursday, June 5, 2008

Don't Forget The Lyrics Marathon

If you are a fan of this Fox Karaoke Game Show, then you may want to tune into Fox Reality on Saturday. The reality network will air 13 episodes of DFTL on Saturday, June 7th from 9:00am-7:00pm. This will be Fox Reality's first time ever airing a Game Show.

Don't Forget The Lyrics, Hosted by Wayne Brady, is a Singing Game Show where one contestant has to fill in the blanks to popular hit songs. If they can successfully fill in the blanks to 10 songs, they win $1,000,000. No one to this date has been able to win the Million, but a few people have gone for The Million Dollar Song and lost. The show right now is on hiatus from Fox, but is set to return in the Fall with its second season. It will air on Fridays at 9:00pm after Fox's other big hit game show, Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?

GSN Reviving two classic Barris Shows!

GSN stated yesterday that they are remaking the two classic Chuck Barris Shows, The Newlywed Game and The Dating Game. This week they are looking for two hosts of the shows to host pilots. Departing Senior Vice President of GSN, Jamie Roberts stated "that trying to find unusual candidates to take these shows and reinvent them". He also stated "They're much-loved shows, and we thought the time was right for a revival, and We're pretty confident we'll get there and possibly put them to series for 2009."

For the Newlywed Game, GSN plans to add a showdown round where the winning young couple plays against an older couple who won a yesteryear "Newlywed" episode.

For The Dating Game, GSN plans to partner with an online dating site like eharmony.com to use a compatibility test that helps find worthwhile dates for the show's bachelors and bachelorettes. GSN also wants to have contestants be able to consult with best friends during the show about which date to select. Having occasional gay or lesbian contestants also has not been ruled out. The executive Producer for these two revivals will be EP for Millionaire, Michael Davies.

I plan on giving these a chance. I just hope Davies does not mess these two shows up like he messed Chain Reaction up. Once hosts have been named for the pilots, I will post them up. Should be interesting to see who they pick.

Hello There

I would like to welcome you all to the new Game Show Blog. I have always wanted to do this type of thing, and I am really excited to do it. This blog will consist of news and information about Game Shows. I may talk about a reality show here and there, but that stuff will be minimal. I hope that you all enjoy my opinions on stuff and I really want you all to tell me what you think. If you disagree with me, then go right ahead. This is everyones blog and I hope it becomes a big one.

So with that, I give you the All New Game Show Blog. The web adress is thegameshowblog.blogspot.com. Have fun with it.