[quote name=\'SteveR\' post=\'221921\' date=\'Aug 4 2009, 11:32 AM\']* I, too, was hoping for Pyramid but completely welcome another GS back to network daytime TV. I wonder if the syndicated market can absorb another show, given the recent failures/departures of Temptation, Trivial Pursuit and Crosswords and the addition of 5th Grader for the Fall. There WOULD be room if syndicators didn't make it so darn attractive (it would seem) to double-run their shows. (Are DoND and Feud the only carry-overs to the new season?)[/quote]
I think the market can hold it (not as many sitcoms this fall helps things). IMO, what hurt the new shows of 07-08 and 08-09 were 1) they weren't established shows compared to the other shows that debuted this decade*, 2) piss-poor promotion for all three (I saw more Syn-Deal promos last summer than the three shows combined, not to mention they put up a
website months in advance), and 3) even more piss-poor execution. By Thanksgiving 2007, Crosswords had already altered the show three times. However, I'm willing to give it a bit more leniency given Merv died right before the first taping. The market had eight syndicated games in fall-2002, at least four of them first run (Pyramid, Feud, H^2 on weekends, and I
think Street Smarts), with an even more crowded market (more court and talk shows and sitcoms). I think it just boils down to promotion and execution. People can't watch your show if you don't tell them when it's on. And if you do tell them, they won't watch if it sucks.
*Yes,
Temptation was based on $ale of the Century...which hadn't aired in first-run in 18 years. Outside of we geeks and maybe some Gen-Xers with fond childhood memories, it was more or less a forgotten memory, compared to when they brought back
Millionaire in '02, which had just left network the prior summer.
