Out With the Old, and In with the New, Another GSN Experiment

GSN has done a whole bunch of schedule shakeups. For example, this week Harvey Feud gains 2 hours in latenights, replacing Karn, Engvall, Jeopardy!, and Password Plus. And Baggage replaces The $25,000 Pyramid and Super Password in latenights. And now, on September 21, Baggage also will replace Match Game and the Richard Dawson Family Feud.

I am going to support this change. Time is moving on. Older shows (especially game shows) are no longer appealing to people, except a select few. I mean, on GSN, there getting awful numbers, and they are putrid compared to big stuff such as American Bible Challenge which pulls almost 1 million viewers each week, or The Pyramid. Looks like GSN has had it. Seeing how Match Game pulls around 100,000 viewers each week, and Dawson has just about 75,000 each week. Looks very wimpy compared to those stuff. Hey I enjoy both Match Game and Dawson's Feud, but no one else, except the die-hard fans do (not that there's 100,000 of them). GSN figures Baggage could do better numbers. If all else fails, there's always Harvey.

I truly enjoy older shows, as well as modern. But as time progresses, those shows only get older. Match Game is turning 40 in July. Sorry, they just don't work.

More GSN Ratings, and Some More Notes

All rights, let's look at some more GSN ratings folks. The February 6-12 ratings are in. Well, I saw some interesting numbers all around. There were a few 500K's, and 400K's. That was actually a pretty darn good week if you ask me. Here are some observations I'd like to point out:

• Maybe block scheduling is good. Family Feud pulls big numbers on Monday Night.
• 5th Grader did decent in pretty much all slots. Hey, this show works.
• DWTS pulls OK numbers on Saturday nights. Let's forget about the other slots.
• Perry's Card Sharks and The $100,000 Pyramid are the greatest combination in mornings. 252K in the 10:00am hour. Match Game 74 at 11:30am did OK, but Eubanks in daytime just doesn't work. Try Pyramid or something else.
Wondering how the block scheduling stuff did? Here is the averages:

Feud Mondays - 442K
Newlywed Game - 332K
Baggage Wednesdays - 254K
Deal Thursdays - 346K
Dancing Fridays - 217K (second set 128K)
Dancing Saturdays - 241K
5th Grader Sundays - 462K     

Feud, Newlywed Game, and Deal or No Deal rock latenights. While Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader reigns majestic over Sunday nights. Baggage has lost some steam apparently, not good IMO. I like this show. There are rumors it's going into syndication.

Dancing averaged 241K on Saturday nights. Not totally bad, but not good like on Monday night. But GSN can live with those numbers. Fridays (which I will speak about later) averaged 217K for the first set, and 128K for the second set (11:00am-4:00am). Not great, but it will probably do for now.


Also, you may have noticed that I deleted the post about The $100,000 Pyramid on Friday nights. It turns out that is not happening. They're going back with what the originally planned on showing, so that post does not need to be there. That's why the post is gone.

Possible Change of Plans

The online schedule rolls over another day. And it shows changes for Saturday the 26th

11:30am - The Newlywed Game (Replaces Catch-21)
6:00pm - Family Feud (Karn) (Replaces Deal or No Deal)
6:30pm - Family Feud (Karn) (Replaces Engvall Lingo)
9:00pm - Family Feud (O'Hurley)(Replaces Karn Feud)
12:00am - The Newlywed Game (Replaces Poker)
12:30am - The Newlywed Game (Replaces Poker)
1:00am - The Newlywed Game (Replaces Poker)
1:30am - Baggage (Replaces Poker)
2:00am - Baggage (Replaces Poker)
2:30am - Baggage (Replaces Poker)
3:00am - High Stakes Poker (Replaces Catch-21/Woolery Lingo)

My opinions BRACE YOURSELVES


Well, Catch-21 could end up being gone soon. Odd seeing it ejected from weekends.
More Karn. OK, how bout some O'Hurley.
More Jerry/Sherri? Well good thing I'm asleep
Poker being cut down? Good.
Wonder what Sunday brings us?

Also looks like the Weekend Feud marathons are not happening. Of course that Feud change could be the marathon. I don't think so though. I wonder what Sunday brings us. Hopefully the Million Dollar latenight block on Sundays remain. We'll find out tomorrow.

Changes For Everynight

Sorry, I've been busy, with school starting and the sudden death of a friend of mine, it's been busy, except doing online picks of the week. But here I am with more stuff. GSN is doing some changes with its schedule. Here they are

Monday
7:00pm - Million Dollar Password
8:00pm - The Power of 10
9:00pm - 1 vs. 100
10:00pm - Who Wants To Be a Millionaire
11:00pm - Deal or No Deal

Tuesday: The Newlywed Game 7pm-12am

Wednesday: Baggage 7pm-12am

Thursday: Deal or No Deal (NBC) 7pm-12am

Friday
7:00pm - Match Game 74
8:00pm - The $25,000 Pyramid
9:00pm - Card Sharks (Eubanks)
10:00pm - Family Feud (Dawson)
11:00pm - The $100,000 Pyramid

Saturday: Family Feud (Karn/O'Hurley)7pm-12am

Sunday: Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader 7pm-12am

Other Changes

Weekdays
2:30pm - Deal or No Deal SYN
6:00pm - The Newlywed Game
12:00am - Lingo (Engvall)

Weekends
3:00pm - Whammy!
3:30pm - Chain Reaction
4:00pm - Family Feud (Karn)



Sunday

Time to report my first schedule change. Starts on Monday. Here they are

3:00pm - Lingo (Engvall) (Starts Tuesday)
3:30pm - 1 vs. 100 (Inaba)
5:30pm - Family Feud (Karn) (Monday June 6 Only) Lingo (Engvall) (Starts Tuesday)
6:00pm - Baggage
8:00pm - Lingo (Engvall)
8:30pm - Improv-A-Ganza
11:00pm - Lingo (Engvall)
11:30pm - Improv-A-Ganza
1:30am - Baggage
2:00am - Lingo (Engvall)
2:30am - Improv-A-Ganza

Not bad changes. Older Woolery Lingo beats it in afternoons. The Shandi and Chuck episodes stay at noon. $25,000 Pyramid is no longer in Latenights. Oh well. It's still on the schedule. Oh well. Engvall gets 5 times a day.

As for weekends. Engvall Lingo gets Saturdays at 7:00pm and Sundays at 10:00pm. Improv gets 2 hours on Saturday night at 8:00pm-10:00pm. That last part sounds bad. Good luck GSN. You'll need it.