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SRIV94

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« Reply #975 on: August 30, 2006, 11:34:46 AM »
[quote name=\'SimpsonGeek\' post=\'129721\' date=\'Aug 30 2006, 12:02 AM\']
the possibility of Price or Jeopardy being shown is still alive if they decide to segue Match Game as #1 into the  hour of Match that comes directly after the countdown airs.....
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What hour of Match?  MG75 only airs for half an hour, followed by this remake of a classic 50's show involving secrets.

IOW, expect 90 straight minutes of MG either tonight or tomorrow (my guess--tomorrow).

Doug -- and the countdown to 2200 continues
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« Reply #976 on: August 30, 2006, 11:37:20 AM »
[quote name=\'aaron sica\' post=\'129752\' date=\'Aug 30 2006, 10:26 AM\']
[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'129684\' date=\'Aug 29 2006, 10:08 PM\']
And I'll cheerfully belly up for a double order of Gee, This Crow Tastes Terrific(tm), and admit that I apparently greatly underestimated just how utterly insanely out-of-their-minds blisteringly shark-jumpingly stupid GSN could be.
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Waiter? I'll have what he's having.

Not in a MILLION years would I have imagined that they would have skipped showing an episode of Wheel.
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Tritto.  Of course, after hearing about Dwyer's comments, it was a slam dunk.

Count me among the "the middle of the countdown was much better than the end or the beginning" crowd.

/Is there a prize for the person who creates the first 1000th post of a thread?

Doug -- and the countdown to 2200 continues
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« Reply #977 on: August 30, 2006, 11:57:15 AM »
[quote name=\'SRIV94\' post=\'129757\' date=\'Aug 30 2006, 11:37 AM\']
Count me among the "the middle of the countdown was much better than the end or the beginning" crowd.

/Is there a prize for the person who creates the first 1000th post of a thread?

Doug -- and the countdown to 2200 continues
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And tritto to you, sir, (or maybe quadro or quinto?) as far as the middle being better than the end. Since the end will be "shows that we air multiple times every day, here's a special showing in prime time and in addition to the 11pm showing of one".

/Prize for the 1000th post is the stills used for TPiR

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« Reply #978 on: August 30, 2006, 12:15:14 PM »
[quote name=\'CountdownRound\' post=\'129717\' date=\'Aug 29 2006, 11:45 PM\']Nice little game show network we had once...[/quote]Yeah, those were the days of Super Decades... </sarcasm>

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« Reply #979 on: August 30, 2006, 12:22:53 PM »
Since Bill mentioned Chuck hosted Wheel and GSN counted Love Connection as a game show, Bill eariler mention that Chuck hosted four shows on the countdown, just means GSN can't count to five.(or six)

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« Reply #980 on: August 30, 2006, 12:28:56 PM »
GSN has 4 Chuck Woolery-hosted shows: The Brand New Dating Game, Love Connection, Lingo and Greed, Scrabble wasn't one of the 4 Woolery-hosted shows that GSN aired/airing.

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« Reply #981 on: August 30, 2006, 12:43:50 PM »
[quote name=\'irismason42\' post=\'129766\' date=\'Aug 30 2006, 11:28 AM\']
GSN has 4 Chuck Woolery-hosted shows: The Brand New Dating Game, Love Connection, Lingo and Greed, Scrabble wasn't one of the 4 Woolery-hosted shows that GSN aired/airing.
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(Bolded for emphasis)

And you know, that last part...honestly....made sense and explains quite a bit.. (I'm as floored as anyone).    Well, if anything, it's proof of the type of logic (or extreme lack thereof) GSN used for this.
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« Reply #982 on: August 30, 2006, 01:46:13 PM »
I'm of the mind that it's contractual stuff with CBS/King World that is going to keep Jeopardy! off tonight's viewing option, and the same deal with Price tomorrow night.

With Wheel (last night), GSN just doesn't care about that show any more, in spite of the fact that it's still popular with viewers after almost 32 years on the air. I'm thinking that GSN might actually not have the rights to it any more.

So let the speculation end: we pretty much already know that tonight you're going to see an hour of Family Feud and tomorrow night, an hour of Match Game, because GSN does already have them in rotation.

Of course, were this a Playmania survey, "StarFace" would have been somewhere in the top 5...

(ducking)

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« Reply #983 on: August 30, 2006, 02:10:51 PM »
The countdown only said double-doses were just for last week, this week is just a single dose because of Millionaire being a full hour episode last night and Family Feud All Stars episode could be airing tonight and I'm thinking that Jeopardy! may still get one episode airing tomorrow but remember, GSN still has the rights to WOF and not TPIR since WOF is a Sony show and will still make it to Feast of Favorites this year so don't this show out when it comes to FOF

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« Reply #984 on: August 30, 2006, 02:36:40 PM »
What he said.

/what the hell did he say?
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« Reply #985 on: August 30, 2006, 02:47:16 PM »
Something about food, stars and doses. Maybe he was talking about Promises?
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« Reply #986 on: August 30, 2006, 02:52:29 PM »
[quote name=\'davemackey\' post=\'129771\' date=\'Aug 30 2006, 01:46 PM\']Of course, were this a Playmania survey, "StarFace" would have been somewhere in the top 5...[/quote]
Actually, Starface is the most popular game show of all time...only among shows whose promos used the word "whosamasquash".  [more ducking]

/I never married Whosamasquash either
//only 8 more to go, folks!
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« Reply #987 on: August 30, 2006, 03:00:24 PM »
One question. Has anybody considered the possibility of GSN actually making FF their number 1? Maybe it's a bit of a long shot, trying to bring logic into a non-logic area, but given the fact the show hasn't been off the air more than a handful of years at a time in its 30 year history, along with the fact that, unlike 44 of their other *cough* TOP 50, it's in the middle of a current run...
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« Reply #988 on: August 30, 2006, 03:12:21 PM »
[quote name=\'wheelloon\' post=\'129784\' date=\'Aug 30 2006, 02:00 PM\']
One question. Has anybody considered the possibility of GSN actually making FF their number 1? Maybe it's a bit of a long shot, trying to bring logic into a non-logic area, but given the fact the show hasn't been off the air more than a handful of years at a time in its 30 year history, along with the fact that, unlike 44 of their other *cough* TOP 50, it's in the middle of a current run...
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Certainly plausible.  Isn't MG GSN's biggest ratings booster, though?  That's why I've thought MG would've finished ahead of FF.  But that's not a bad call.

And aside to Jason W., you're permanently ineligible for the stills for even bringing up the STARFACE promo.  :)

Doug -- and the countdown to 2200 continues (and for that matter, the countdown in this thread to 1000 also continues)
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« Reply #989 on: August 30, 2006, 04:09:21 PM »
[quote name=\'davemackey\' post=\'129771\' date=\'Aug 30 2006, 01:46 PM\']
With Wheel (last night), GSN just doesn't care about that show any more, in spite of the fact that it's still popular with viewers after almost 32 years on the air. I'm thinking that GSN might actually not have the rights to it any more.
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I'm beginning to think they don't have the rights to WOF as well. Even if all they could air was the 1988-1989 season we've seen 8,274 times, they still could've picked something to run last night. The season premiere. The season finale. The two weeks at Radio City. The Christmas episode. The idiot who couldn't solve "CANADIAN --RDER" in the bonus.

Maybe I'm wrong, because Beat The Clock got glossed over too. But it would sure explain why WOF hasn't been on the network for well over a year now.