Weekdays, effective 11/9:
(Changes only)

11:00 AM: Love Connection (replaces Super Password)
11:30 AM: Wheel of Fortune (replaces Super Password)
12:00 PM: Match Game '7x (replaces Jeopardy)
12:30 PM: Family Feud (Dawson) (replaces Wheel of Fortune)
1:00 PM: Hollywood Squares (Bergeron) (replaces Match Game '7x)
1:30 PM: Jeopardy! (replaces Family Feud (Dawson)

Rest of the schedule remains as-is. Love Connection's run starts from the beginning of the 2nd season (1984), while the Squares run consists of the same episodes as the 1 AM run. Super Password remains on weekends.

Makes you wonder if Fremantle might eventually give P+ and SP the heave ho?

If the listings at Zap2It are to be believed, weekend schedule change effective 11/28. (Following two straight days of nothing but Deal or No Deal marathons on Thansgiving Thursday/Friday):

Gone entirely from the schedule now: Password Plus, Super Password

Times ET:
9:00 AM: Hollywood Squares (replaces Match Game [SYN])
9:30 AM: Whammy (replaces Password Plus)
10:00 AM: Chain Reaction (Lane) (replaces Super Password)
10:30 AM: Family Feud (O'Hurley) (replaces Family Feud (Dawson)* (Yes, the grid does differentiate between hosts)
11:00 AM: Newlywed Game (Wilson) (replaces Whammy)
11:30 AM: Catch 21 (replaces Chain Reaction)
12:00 PM: 1 vs. 100 (replaces Meredith WWTBAM & Bergeron HS)
1:00 PM: Deal or No Deal (replaces 1 vs. 100).

Schedule remains the same until 3 AM, when
3:00 AM: Catch 21 (replaces Family Feud (Dawson)
3:30 AM: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (Vieira)

This has to be the first time GSN has gone a day without any classics on it.

A sign of things to come, perhaps?

That depends on what you call a classic. Squares episodes are nearly ten years old now.

The 2009 edition of GSN's Feast Of Favorites.
I don't believe I've watched anything on that channel since last summer.
And since I'm 45 and don't have a ratings diary, I know the network does not give one lemur's discharge.
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Have you heard The Weather Channel shows movies on Friday nights now?
Yes, they are hosted by former mate-in-my-dreams Jen Carfagno. This weekend the film was Misery starring James Caan, Kathy Bates and Lauren Bacall.

It's apparently a cost cutting thing for them too. Supposedly they were caught last Xmas season taping weathercasts. Of course, they are NBC owned now, so anything is possible

We still have Match Game and Dawson Feud, but that's about it for classics, wait, 25k Pyramid.

I can't wait to see what disappears from the weekday schedule next.

One further change to note:
Effective 12/7:
3:30 AM: I've Got a Secret (replaces Password).

Yes, it *will* be the Garry Moore run, apparently.

I haven't had GSN for a while now, but is there anything left on their schedule to disappear?

Which may lend to the belief that they are now buying on a show-by-show basis for limited blocks of time, and we can expect more of this in the future. This is quite common now for most cable channels. Hopefully they will not go the WGN/Viacom route of buying a movie for a 72-hour window, then running the crap out of it.


--Mike

Nothing much is left except for ads for personal pleasure devices and a lovely product called Ass Effects.

And "Secrets The Media Doesn't Want You To Know About Obama and the Democrats"

If that's the case it's good that they're doing this...I'd love to see them do this with other parts of their library too rather than just the black and white shows. It would be a nice treat to see some of those other shows even for just a few weeks at a time.

I wondered if I was the only one to notice 'Ass Effects'. Can you imagine being in the meeting for the final product naming? Plus I love one of the side effects of the product...PAIN!! Makes me want to pick up a case.

It was even worse for a while, when they cut it short and all you heard was "Ass!"

A bit off-topic here, but here's a question that I've been pondering for quite a while:

Suppose GSN were to regain the rights to Press Your Luck. Even if they do get it back, will they ever be able to show the 1983-1984 and 1985-1986 episodes?

Because check out this quote from Brad Fancini's site:



Granted, USA Network showed most of the episodes that GSN didn't show, but that was back when there were fewer commercials in between breaks. Nowadays, there's more than ever, and I've got a bad feeling that this is the main reason why GSN has been uninterested in showing those episodes all along.

Remember when Republic Pictures had PYL and there were those after-show fillers with the Whammy of a minute or so? I don't recall seeing those on CBS, so when exactly were those made?

Those cartoons were probably made for the '87 syndication package. Contestant plugs and the like were removed from those episodes, and when they ran short the Whammy cartoon would appear as filler. Sometimes Peter would introduce clips from "upcoming episodes", although they looked a lot like the pre-show teasers.

Hopefully PYL will return to GSN one day and run all the episodes. The '83 episodes might have been slower-paced than the rest of the run, but they could probably sell more commercial time if they picked them up! I always thought the '86 episodes were the best of the series.

Okay, maybe I've been totally out of the loop, or my memory has taken a short vacation, but PYL '87 syndicated package??? Was this only shown in limited markets? I do remember the late afternoon reruns for a few months, but that was a CBS run. Maybe my area never picked up the '87 season, so was this also a rerun package?

I believe so. I remember seeing the trade ads in old issues of Broadcasting, but I didn't know they were actually syndicated. I believe it was a trial run for first-run syndication. Surprised it never caught on.

Yeah, the reruns were syndicated shortly before they appeared on USA. At the time, there were some markets that didn't clear it during the CBS run, especially when it moved to 4 eastern, so it could be essentially first-run in those cities. It's possible that the lack of takers led to selling it to USA.

Supposedly, the syndication rerun package was a test run to see if the show had legs for a possible Fall 1987 revival. Unfortunately the show didn't get a ton of pickups, and where it did, the time slots were pretty poor.

Tyshaun