Head for the Hillz!!!!!!1

Here's a board conversation in response to GSN's recent acquisition of Dancing With the Stars

A poster:
It is very sad to have to see this in pure black and white now. I never would post inaccurate/false information. I'm sorry everyone didn't see this coming or believe me a month back. All I can say is, Friday Night Classics better do well!!!


I never believed, and I still don't believe your theory.

Dancing With the Stars doesn't mean the demise of older shows. Maybe on Friday nights, but not totally.


GSN Word of Wisdom No. 12
12) A game show, by its dictionary defintion, is “a television program on which contestants compete for prizes in a game or a quiz.”*By fulfilling this definition, ALL competitive reality shows are game shows, whether you like them or not. On the other hand, Love Connection*is not (its citation in The Encyclopedia of TV Game Shows*notwithstanding).

Another poster, commented on Buzzerblog's post:
DWTS has competition (important element of most game shows) to win a prize (another important element of most game shows). It even takes place in a conventional studio setting. DWTS is much more of a game show

It does fall under the Game Show Category. Like it or not.

Yet another poster
When these schedule shake-ups happen, I think we'll be more accurately be able to tell whether gloom and doom is on its way or not
Agreed

Million Dollar Monday Ending and Other Worries

I was looking on the Directv guide, and it rolled over to November 21st and spotted The Newlywed Game for 5 hours on Monday night. Then later I looked over to Tuesday the 22nd and saw Baggage. The Wednesday nights are also Baggage. It appears Million Dollar Mondays are over. I'd like to be wrong. Who Wants To Be a Millionaire bombed back in September, and lasted two weeks. Looks like Regis' Monday night slot also lasted 2 weeks. Oh well, it obviously bombed, along with the other shows in that block.

Makes me wonder about Flashback Fridays. I think the Monday and Friday things were a 2 week deal. I might be jumping the gun, but who knows. I think we should wait and see, but doesn't surprise me. Amy Introcaso-Davis is now at GSN, and at Oxygen she increased original programming by 83%. Maybe she's doing that now.

UPDATE: Flashback Fridays Appear to survive according to Directv. Tomorrow we find out if Million Dollar Mondays survive.

GSN Schedule Worries

Well, with the new schedule changes happening today, I've been beginning to worry about some things. Here is what I wrote:

As I said earlier, I'm very excited for this schedule, and will enjoy it.

But, I don't see it lasting long. Why?!? Here's why:

Recently ratings have been sucking. Those bombs that made it suck are almost gone. However, shows like Engvall Lingo and Sherri's Newlywed Game have done rather well, even by recent standards. Engvall's Lingo has produced some good ratings. What does that mean? R-E-N-E-W. It's probably gonna get a second season, whether you like it or not, it's probably gonna happen. They'll tape Engvall's second season. Where to put it? In Primetime, probably to replace Regis. Regis will probably replace the Pyramid hour. They'd probably give it an afternoon showing or rerun his first season, so Whammy! would be cut back to weekends, or moved to daytime, meaning, an older show would be the sacrificial lamb. Hey, I expect Sherri to get another season. That has to go somewhere too. This change is probably a temporary thing until they're ready to debut new seasons of high-rated originals.

Another thing. I'm worried Regis might not do very well. Face it, the show is 10 years old. Most viewers think older=bad. It got 435K on that marathon. But, because it's on everynight, it could bomb. And as I said, Engvall will probably be back.

Also, the older shows are losing some appeal, (new episodes probably wouldn't help). I remeber watching Match Game last September and thinking "Dayum, this show is REALLY old. They're just losing appeal. I'd expect them gone pretty soon. Hey, maybe Whammy! And Who Wants To Be a Millionaire will turn up in the morning when new episodes of the originals arrive.

Well, you have to expect with a post like this, you'll receive criticism. Here is what a few posters said:

Whatever.

They have figured out that those high-cost originals haven't been delivering, for the most part...think Drew, Wendy, and Poker, in particular. I would expect to see classics airing from 8-2, and a shakeup in late night. I would be willing to bet that Password will return in some form in the next 6-12 months. We might even see MGPM at some point, since we know they more than likely have the rights to air it. That leaves plenty of time for the newer shows in the evenings, where they belong. Given that they've had three shows debut and BOMB in the last year or so, they may want to cut their losses and pick up some newer acquisitions, like Harvey Feud.

This is what I have been saying to you for months. Why do you think MG is "losing appeal" ? You see the same ep's over and over. Twice a day. Yes, it becomes "oh , yeah...funny. Saw that"....or " I just saw this a few weeks ago ( when it was actually months)." But as far as losing appeal, the ratings for MG a few months ago...not September....were pretty darn good . 300 plus 11 AM for a bit. That isn't losing appeal. BTW, old show 25K Pyramid certainly hasn't lost viewers. Just the opposite, in fact.

One thing I don't get with you. Over and over, you keep posting "be glad you get MG, stop complaining about the same ep's..."But now, you are saying you think MG has lost its appeal since "LAST SEPT..". That is sort of contradictory.....please explain.

To try and back my theory up, I posted some hourly averages. The daytime ratings have not been doing too well. Maybe that was a bad week, who knows.