Reviews of the 2009 Game Show Awards

[bwood]

I wasn't impressed but I think they did OK with what they had to work with. Nice little change of pace for GSN. I enjoyed the opening bit with Howie and Ezekiel. Also, count me in the "what will the do if they do it again" parade, because I can't think of very many things. My fiance thought it was funny because I was calling winners before they were announced based on the people/stars present in the audience.

/"Honey, Jeff Foxworthy is there for some reason, trust me."
/Best Game Show?....ahh, nuts.

[tvmitch]

Well, I didn't watch much of the Awards, but I can tell you that the audio certainly must have been better than the spectacle that was the Tony Awards last night.

[Matt Ottinger]

[quote name=\'JasonA1\' post=\'217461\' date=\'Jun 8 2009, 12:36 AM\']How did TV Land pull off doing this sort of thing more than once?[/quote]
Couple obvious things.  There are a lot more classic TV shows in general than there are classic game shows, so they have a larger pool of shows to draw from.  And all those shows have multiple celebrities, so your talent pool is larger as well.

Effectively, a lot of what the Game Show Awards was trying to do is what we tried to do each year with the Game Show Congress.  And we couldn't sustain it for a couple hundred people in a hotel conference room.

[TimK2003]

If anything, if GSN were to do this awards trainwreck again, they should model it more after a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction ceremony.

Induct one or two people or shows into one of several categories, provide a 3 or 4 minute piece on the story behind the inductee, then have a short acceptance speech...

..Then at the end of the show, all of the inductees grab some musical instruments and have a jam session!!

Hey, it couldn't be much worse than what they aired, and I think that it would be more respected by the industry & the fans of game shows as well.

From what I have heard, the awards ceremony was about as "serious" as the Golden Pyramid Awards or the Green Ball Awards that GSN did several years back.  The genre deserves better!!!

[Tony Peters]

This, along with the reported repeating/missing acts within shows and the bad-looking results of the Time Machine, sure seems to be another piece of evidence that GSN is a less-than-professional operation.

If this is what the vanguard of the game show genre has come to, I have little to no hope of game shows ever being great again.

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