GSN 50 greatest game shows special...

[SimpsonGeek]

[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'128808\' date=\'Aug 23 2006, 09:34 PM\']
[quote name=\'SimpsonGeek\' post=\'128800\' date=\'Aug 23 2006, 07:25 PM\']
I was just basing this on GSN's mindset, and what has not been shown on promos or the press releases
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I'm suggesting you're touched in the head if you think GSN is gonna blow off three of their top five.
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Can you suggest a different way they will do this then? Instead of just insulting me again.

[rebelwrest]

Well at least a show worthy of the top ten is playing tonight.  However, I noticed something about the $20,000 Pyramid episode.  When Dick read the letter of Billy Crystal complaining that Dick has misrepresented his record, the letter said I have checked the tapes.  Call me crazy, but does that imply that Billy Crystal has a copy of the episode with his record setting win?

Yes you may call me crazy.

[Vgmastr]

Is it possible that GSN just decided to extend this by a week, covering 4, 5 and 6 next week, and the top 3 the week after?  I can't believe they'd be stupid enough to gloss over 3 of the top 6.

[chad1m]

It could very well be figurative you know.

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'SimpsonGeek\' post=\'128809\' date=\'Aug 23 2006, 07:37 PM\']
Can you suggest a different way they will do this then? Instead of just insulting me again.
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Nope, sure can't. Like I've said many times here, they lost me at Freakin' Studs. However, I feel confident in suggesting that they are not so eager to throw away that last little shred of credibility they might have left that they are willing to completely blow off 60% of the top five entries in a multi-week countdown from fifty.

Maybe I'm wrong, 'cuz, ya know, Freakin' Studs. But while GSN has proved unloyal to the fan base that has gotten them to this point (as well they should be at this point), Occam's Razor kicks in and I'm just unable to think they're so moronic as to do something that would make them the laughingstock of the entire cable industry.

[quote name=\'rebelwrest\' post=\'128811\' date=\'Aug 23 2006, 07:42 PM\']
Yes you may call me crazy.
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Crazy isn't the word I'm thinking of.

You won't like the one I am.

[mbc793]

[quote name=\'chad1m\' post=\'128732\' date=\'Aug 23 2006, 05:29 PM\']
Well, since Treasure Hunt and Dating Game were both Barris created and produced, it's very likely you would've heard the same, or at least a similar cue.
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Yeah you are right there. Thanks 100%.  I thought there was an episode of the Billy Crystal record breaking episode, but when it was mentioned that it was destroyed, I thought oh rats. I don't know if it is figurative to do #6-4, but again call me crazy or another word will be better.

[Allstar87]

[quote name=\'Vgmastr\' post=\'128813\' date=\'Aug 23 2006, 10:46 PM\']
Is it possible that GSN just decided to extend this by a week, covering 4, 5 and 6 next week, and the top 3 the week after?  I can't believe they'd be stupid enough to gloss over 3 of the top 6.
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That's what I was thinking too. It certainly would be logical; the top 7 shows are left in the countdown, the top 7 shows each get an hour. It makes more sense than blowing off three programs which are supposedly the "Greatest Game Shows of All Time".

Oh well, nothing left to do except wait & see how it's handled.

[catnap1972]

Somebody on that "other" board had a thought--maybe GSN's way to weasel out of airing J! or WoF would be some kind of clause that states neither show can air at a time when it could possibly compete with the first-run (or for now, rerun) episodes.

Given that TPIR is almost a guaranteed no-show (aside from stills), I think the safe bet for the last four "airable" shows will be LMAD, MG, FF, and WWTBAM

[wheelloon]

Pyramid tonight: EXCELLENT! Do I think WWTBAM deserves to be higher in any GS list over Pyramid though? No, but, I don't think it should be higher than Password, Squares, or Concentration either. Oh well...

With regards to the the next few nights, GSN should not have thought twice (or even given any thought to it for that matter, it should have been an assumed plan from the beginning), that each of their top 10 shows, maybe even top 20, be shown. Sure, you have rights issues, but the only thing it does by not showing some of their higher rated choices (especially in their top 10, or maybe even in their top 5 *ugh*), is give even LESS credibility to their list, if that was possible at this point. Not that it really had any from the beginning for me, because, like everyone else says, "Freakin' Studs."

If they don't extend the thing for another week, I won't be expecting Price, Deal, or Wheel, and that, in my book, is game show BLASPHEMY!!

[Chelsea Thrasher]

For what it's worth, the listings services have the regular schedule the week after this is supposed to end, meaning if it IS extending, they haven't been informed as such.  And GSN's still (mildly) promoting the grand finale as next Thursday.  

...I don't want to believe they would actually be stupid enough to have a list of 50 Greatest Game Shows, air full episodes, and not air three of their top six.

[catnap1972]

Dish Network's guide has the same thing listed for the next four (7, 6-5, 4-3, 2-1), so it definitely looks like three shows will get the shaft.

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'wheelloon\' post=\'128828\' date=\'Aug 23 2006, 08:35 PM\']
With regards to the the next few nights, GSN should not have thought twice (or even given any thought to it for that matter, it should have been an assumed plan from the beginning), that each of their top 10 shows, maybe even top 20, be shown.
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It frightens me that you are playing the part of the voice of reason in this thread.

Yes, that's a compliment.

[PYLW]

Thumbs up tonight on showing $20,000 Pyramid, and thumbs down on whatever the hell GSN is doing with this "double dose of one show" junk.

[Jay Temple]

The good on tonight's show: They mentioned Cullen, Davidson and the $50K, even though they haven't aired any of those in the time I've had GSN (March 2002). They picked good shows instead of shows with big-name celebs.* I also like the mention of Shatner's chair at the end. (amusing quip, too)

The bad: As mentioned, the $100K win is one they've shown many times. (I would have preferred Keif Farrendini's win, just as a reminder that in fact contestants did have that choice.) They didn't mention Osmond's show after mentioning Cullen and Davidson. This is made worse by the fact that the full and complete title of his show, Pyramid, was all they showed on screen.

* Contrast this with the Golden Pyramid Awards special from March 2002. The eps there seem chosen based on two criteria: They had to have a big-name celebrity or more than the standard fourteen rounds of play, preferably both. They had a $100K ep, but it wasn't even from a tournament.

[Dbacksfan12]

[quote name=\'Jay Temple\' post=\'128847\' date=\'Aug 24 2006, 12:18 AM\']
The good on tonight's show: They mentioned Cullen, Davidson and the $50K, even though they haven't aired any of those in the time I've had GSN (March 2002). They picked good shows instead of shows with big-name celebs.* I also like the mention of Shatner's chair at the end. (amusing quip, too)
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To clarify...they've never aired any of those.  I don't think GSN got Pyramid until October 1997.  Is that correct?