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A fan's notes 27 Aug 2013 | 06:50 am
It's fun to read fan reports from game show sets. Lots of enthusiasm, lots of trivial details, lots of humor when the fan is somewhat self-aware. This report from the Wheel of Fortune set meets all th...
Newtonian physics 26 Aug 2013 | 03:38 am
Hollywood Junket has posted an interview with Todd Newton, versatile game show host noted for everything from The Price is Right's live show to GSN original Whammy to the Hub's kid gamer Family Game N...
Stop that bus 25 Aug 2013 | 04:35 am
A while back I noted that Bounce, a digital subchannel targeted at African-Americans, had picked up reruns of some GSN shows. Newlywed Game, American Bible Challenge, Catch 21. Now the channel is runn...
Time's arrow 24 Aug 2013 | 11:31 am
A fan site posts a bunch of then-and-now photos of game show hosts. Most have aged pretty well. Better than me, anyway, though that's not saying much. The biggest surprise: Chuck Barris looks rather ...
Set up 23 Aug 2013 | 05:42 am
From a fan's photo on Instagram via BuzzerBlog comes a glimpse of Jeopardy's new set. It's heavy on purple and pillars. Doesn't look bad, but as I said a while back, I'd watch the show if they played ...
Ratings: Jeopardy hits season low 22 Aug 2013 | 05:08 am
Maybe it was the reruns or summer or the CBS spat with that cable company. But for whatever reason Jeopardy hit a season low in the week of August 5-11. Otherwise movement among syndicated game shows ...
More game nights 22 Aug 2013 | 04:45 am
NBC has renewed Hollywood Game Night for a second season. The Peacock Net's (Variety-speak) Paul Telegdy is refreshingly modest about the show's ratings performance. "It has done pretty respectably," ...
Likable ratings 20 Aug 2013 | 05:59 am
At Game Show Network News Scott Rahner notes that Richard Karn's Family Feud is getting good numbers in the noon hour. Karn has always done well for GSN later in the afternoon. Now his noon ratings ar...
The other Marilyn 19 Aug 2013 | 04:46 am
I've written a few not so kind things about The Name's the Same, a largely forgotten Goodson and Todman panel show from the 1950s. But with a lazy weekend upon me, I rummaged around YouTube for some b...
Pawned 18 Aug 2013 | 03:37 am
Discovery Channel is sitting on a kind of game show called Pawn in the Game. It's a combo of Pawn Stars and Cash Cab. Customers of a Branson, MO pawn shop play a trivia game to try to get a better pri...
