[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'150546\' date=\'Apr 19 2007, 11:18 AM\']
Imagine if Spike TV held on to "Fandango" and "Crook and Chase" in the morning and today's primetime lineup of CSI, UFC and TNA?
I'd prefer all game shows 24/7, but if GSN wants to change, it should change completely. Right now, a lot of young people who might like the primetime sked may have programmed their remote to automatically skip the channel because they once caught a glimpse of John Charles Daly. Ergo, no young people watching at all and no old people watching GSN in prime.
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They tried to change somewhat, if not completely, during the day (remember Arsenio "Star Search" and repeats of "AN3AC"?). It didn't work.
The thing is that for most entertainment cable channels, daytime is strictly leaving the lights on until night. Who's making any kind of effort to compete with broadcast television during the day these days, excepting Discovery's how-to shows and the kiddie channels? Is TLC's "Story" franchise still going? If we hadn't fallen into that decade-long black hole after 1990 with the genre, GSN would have enough 90s and 00s titles to fill a daytime schedule the way TNT does with "L&O," "Alias," "ER" and more "L&O."
And to be honest with you, if GSN wanted to be serious with daytime, it would probably be with low-risk call-in-and-lose shows.