[quote name=\'snowpeck\' post=\'222864\' date=\'Aug 13 2009, 09:49 AM\']People even called wondering if the ABC soaps would be on at a different time because of the Michael Jackson memorial service. (I told them they'd be on tomorrow and no episodes would be skipped.)[/quote]
That's the concession the soaps get that the game shows don't get very often. At least if the serial is dumped, there's the disappointment that the show isn't on that day, but when it returns, it does so with no loss of content. The Price Is Right will usually have its pre-empted show rescheduled since the specific date on which it plays usually doesn't matter. However, during those many years when there'd be games all over network daytime (most of them with returning champions and a good many of them featuring games that straddled), if unexpected special programming broke in and forced the show off the air that day, the pre-empted episode would never be shown.....unless in some cases, it was picked up by Game Show Network many years later.
The big thing about Game Show Network I never understood (I don't know if they still do this or not for I rarely watch the channel these days) is if, for example, Super Password wasn't shown on a particular weekday because of a scheduled special (a marathon of The Newlywed Game shows which looks fun, perhaps), when SP returned the following day, the previous day's show was skipped. But why? The show missed was only one day more outdated the following day than the previous. That made and makes no sense to me.
Plus, daytime dramas are given a big bundle of time to find an audience. If a game show starts off in tank mode, it's probably gone in a few months. And those are the shows which are less expensive to produce!!
