Well, it looks like Mr. Steve Beverly has updated the list for the upcoming game show Saturday night offerings in March. Now, if everything is correct this time, with no preempts or shows taking the place of another show, this is the lineup.

March 10, Chain Reaction (8-10)
March 17, Card Sharks (Bob Eubanks, 8-10)
March 24, Double Dare with Alex Trebek (8-10) (Its Back) Yay
March 31, Press Your Luck (8-10)

And last, but not least the upcoming Game Of The Week Offerings

March 11, To Tell the Truth (color)
March 18, Two for the Money
March 25, Get the Message
April 1, To Tell the Truth (Collyer)

So for me more exciting Saturday nights for GSN our on the way! The Saturday night blocks in January and February MUST have worked as far as ratings are concerned. I am happy. Thanks to GSN! Also, can't wait to see the ("Two for the money" ep., can't recall the last time this was shown)

I take it the Chain Reaction marathon is the most recent version?

Only one could Hope and pray for the Cullen episodes!

Thank goodness that Double Dare marathon was put back at a different date, and nice to see Eubanks Card Sharks get a marathon.

I'd love for them to throw us a bone and show us some Blake Emmons or Geoff Edwards eps only because they have been rarely, if at all, seen.

GSN should have the rights to Edwards version, no?

There's a dry line in there somewhere and I must avoid it.
Great to see the Double Dare four-pack see air after all.
As for Two For The Money, I believe late autumn 2005 was the last time the program played over that channel.

For what it's worth, I thought of it too. :)

Well, they have aired a little bit of it before, so it is in Sony's holdings.

I'd love to see that again. But if it's the current version, that's fine, too (Yes, I do like the current version. The fact that they're in a different type of set from previous versions and that they give the last letter are just small things to me).

I don't think the set and last letter are the main issues people have, and especially the main issues I don't have. My issues with the are the semi-incompetant host, needless speedchain, dumb betting round, dumbass contestants messing up what should be an interesting main game and bonus round, and then I can add on the last-letter given, crappy set which is really obviously stealing old Millionaire set pieces (it tapes in the same studio as ABC Millionaire I've heard) and lousy music to just put the whole mess together. I know in regular viewer terms it is interesting I suppose, but since I'm given this stuff to report and criticize for better or worse, this one leans on the worse side

A bit off topic, but if you didn't read Buzzer, here's the bonus round changes for season 2.

A team has 60 seconds to get 5 answers for $5,000. If they don't get all 5, they get $100 per right answer. After a team buzzes in to answer a question, the time stops for about 3 seconds and then resumes after that time or an answer is given. The only decent thing about this as far as I've heard is that they have the players looking into monitors now and the answerer is seated infront of them, so it seems like GSN tossed them a few extra bucks for something that should have been there in the first place.

Back on topic, I've heard about the Edmonds version of Chain Reaction, but I've never seen it. I've read the rules, but what was the deal with Edmonds himself. Again, I've never seen him or his version so I'm just asking for plain curiosity sake.

Check it out here. First row, third clip. If you still feel curious, or if I'm in a particularly evil mood for that matter, I'll post a full episode.

--Jamie

Five? In 60? With a stop-clock?

Amazing. They have to get beautiful people instead of people who can play the game, so they dumb down the game even FURTHER to meet it.

If they're still giving out cash in the maingame, then it may be (minutely) less about stupid people and more about GSN saying that they have money now and that they aren't afraid to spread it around. Now it's not the best way to spend your newly-earned revenues, but it's better than hiding it under your mattress, I guess.

As usual, you are not making a damned bit of sense.

Based on the contestants I've seen, I'll be surprised if they have an above-50% win rate in the bonus round.

This is what happens when you get people who just can't win the bonus round, then whine aftrerward. 5 in 60 seconds with a stop clock? How many friggin game shows, besides Scrabble, have a stop clock in the bonus round? This is ridiculous. 10 IN 90 SECONDS CAN BE DONE. Obviously, people who don't know a damn thing about game shows are running a game show network.

The only good thing coming out of this is that your bonus round jackpot does not depend on your main game score.

So, I take it you would blame CBS for "Pick a Number" and "Coming or Going" too, huh?

GSN has the rights to it, yes, but that doesn't mean they have the tapes. A reliable source (Oh, God, there's THAT term...) tells me they got rid of their dubs when they decided they had no intention of putting it on the schedule. So, probably won't be the Edwards version.

And before anyone gets excited, the original tapes are probably still sitting somewhere in Quebec in storage. It's just the DigiBeta dubs that got wiped,

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And now on GSN's shows listing they have "The $100,000 Pyramid" listed for April 14th at 8pm. I really hope it is another season than the reran 86-87 season.

Interesting. I thought Pyramid would come back to the schedule, but didn't think it would be this soon. Good to see it back.

Just to make certain we understand it right, it's not really back on the regular schedule. This is just a one-shot (or a four-shot) on Saturday, April 14th, yes? As was the case with the eight Treasure Hunt episodes run exactly six years ago that night.
Perhaps it'll be a 4-pack of Heather Davis episodes.

Remind me to lay in a supply of extra Kleenex as that date approaches. :)

Heheheheh. Lay.

It'll probably be 100K wins like they do with just about every Pyramid marathon

I predict: M.G. McCormick's win for the gazillionth time.

Would that that were true.

Looks like we got a The Newlywed Game Marathon on the 21st of April, only one can hope its a different season then the one they're currently showing.

Well, from what we've found out, April 14th- 100K Pyramid, April 21- Newlywed Game, the month of April seems to be "Sony" Game Show Saturday Night, if you know what i mean. We do not know what will be airing on the 7th of April or the 28th, yet. Could GSN have done a one time lease and possibly leased TTD or TJW (both sony shows)? They could put jeopardy in for the 7th, but, i think we might get some surprises

Now, I could be wrong here, but why would GSN need to "lease out" TTD or Joker? I thought they owned it.

And two shows "owned" by Sony (here's a hint: They weren't owned by Sony from the beginning) is mere coincidence. It'd be quite silly to have a marathon of J!, and even if they did, it'd be the MDM that's been seen a million times.

The reason they would need to lease it out is because the shows are owned by Sony as apart of The B&E library. If they ever wanted to add them to the schedule they would only be able to lease 1 season, just like Newlywed Game, Jeopardy, and Pyramid.

Correct -- GSN used to have full access to Sony's libraries because back then, Sony was the sole owner of GSN. Now it's jointly owned by Sony and Liberty, so as far as GSN is concerned, Sony is no different from Fremantle or any other company from whom it might want to lease shows.


Actually, there's no rule that says that Sony can't lease more than one season at a time to GSN, and I can't imagine that Sony would refuse to take the money if GSN wanted to lease multiple seasons of any show. GSN pays for only one season at a time because it costs less to do so and because most people don't notice the difference.

According to Zap2it, the April 7th marathon is Now You See It.


Greg

Damn...the last time I remember this airing on GSN was sometime back around 2000, when it aired for two weekends before being replaced by Click.

I'll try to catch this one.

Very welcome news. We very much enjoy NYSI. Seems to me that NYSI might be a logical weekend 9am morning replacement for Child's Play, whenever GSN wants to pull that off the sked...but not too quickly, as I'd like to get a couple more Turnabout bonus episodes on tape. Any word on when those will start?

GSN is really making me love them. Double Dare'76 and another great in Now You See It. This should be another great marathon. The version of "Game Show Saturday Night" beats 2005's by a long shot. These are real classics we are seeing this time. Thanks GSN!

That is AWESOME! Unbelieveable! With the Double Dare marathon coming up as well, this is just fantastic. :)

Assuming no skipped episodes, and assuming it stays on weekends and not moved to weekdays, it's going to be about one year before we see the Turnabout end game.

I personally feel Now You See It would do fine in weekend Blockbusters' current spot. Either that or Bergeron's Hollywood Squares.

Refresh our memories a little bit, when Child's Play was seen as a full length episode during the As Seen On Theatre hour during ASO's second season, not even 1 episode that ASOT showed featured the Turnabout end game this was followed by the Get Rich Quick unsold pilot and Modor, regarding NYSI, you mean 1999, not 2000 now with the NYSI Saturday Night block coming, we may see some pre-August 1974 shows where it had the long opening and the contestants who make it to the Finals receives nothing except to take on the previous episode's champion or if it's the Solo Game win, it'll be the runner-up from the previous Finals round.

Nice to see NYSI on the marathon schedule. I now have easier access to GSN...might consider taping it.



I *must* finish work on my witty "Blackout" button Photoshop....

VERY nice GSN, and i mean VERY nice. Wow, we have so many good things coming our way for GSN. the Double Dare Marathon, this Saturday, the Press Your Luck Marathon, Next Saturday, Now You See It, Then 100,000 Pyramid after that, and so on. I am pleased that GSN is giving these short lived shows, (Double Dare) and (Now You See It), Prime time airings.

Also, Now You See It must have done well in the overnight slot in January, cause now we get to see a FULL 4 episodes. Maybe they will show Rosemary's big win. Whatever they show, I'm happy. That airing of Now You See It in January, was the FIRST time i have seen the show, and i fell in love with it. It has great play along factor, great host, players, music, etc...

In addition, we still need to find out what GSN will be airing on Saturday April 28.

Bold Prediction: I believe they will air tattletale's. Why you ask? Its simple, because it has shown up in recent marathons, Christmas, and 50 Game Shows, and its a Goodson/Toddman show, which means GSN can just go right ahead and play it. Unlike those sony shows, Tic Tac Dough, The Jokers Wild, etc... But, who knows, they may show TTD or TJW. They shocked us with Double Dare and Now You See It, they can do it again.


One more thing before i have to go. I believe that the next Major Schedule change on GSN (hopefully summer cause i many others will be off school), they will put Double Dare and Now You See It somewere on the weekday, or most likely weekend schedule. I mean, if they are giving these shows overnight airings, and then a FULL 2hr. marathon, they should return to the lineup, IMO.

Alright, i'm done. once again, Thanks GSN!!! The best network for Game Shows!

I must move soon to someplace which has GSN on its basic tier. For their occasional foibles, GSN makes it up by unearthing some true gems once in a while.


In Mark's defense, he said "around 2000". The last time I checked, 1999 is indeed around 2000.

Trying to navigate through the Iris-babble to quote a portion of a post is like playing a twisted game of Now You See It.

No, there's a difference. Now You See It used English words.

There's less of a difference than you think. A typical Iris post has only slightly more punctuation than a Now You See It board.

The only way I'd get complete "shock" from GSN is if they knocked a zero off the $100K Pyramid...and about 12 years or so. :)

Speaking of...does GSN still have rights to the $10K Pyramid? Or is that negotiated differently from the $100K packages?

Not always. I recall seeing a Russian word on the board once, which stood out because they reversed an N to make a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. (Pretty cool, actually.)

It's also feasible that they may know that neither of these would work on the regular schedule (ratings-wise), so they'll burn some off this way (one-time curiosity).

Hopefully they'll dig Monty's BtC up one of these days...hasn't turned up at all since the DP aside from that Christmas episode they recycled a couple of times.

Quick bump to this thread to remind everyone that Double Dare is airing tonight. Can't wait to watch these!

I am very excited about this. Let's hope after this the show gets a weekend airing soon.

Bump for another reminder about tonight's NYSI marathon.

Great NYSI marathon! I haven't seen much of Jack Narz's work in the past. The light grid and telestrator were pretty high tech for their time.