You think the general public recognizes Tattletales? Tge general public recognizes Price and Jeopardy. They might recognize something like PYL but I think even that is pushing it.
I think the general public is more likely to recognize Tattletales than they would All-Star Secrets or the mid-1980s Cross-Wits, at least.
Not necessarily. The show hasn't aired new episodes in more than 30 years, and it's not like GSN has aired it consistently the way they do
Match Game, Feud or
Pyramid. It was a modest hit in the 70s and 80s, but nothing more. I doubt airing it first would've caused significantly higher ratings.
Because people who said "Hey, can you keep a secret?" wanted to involve him or wanted his help, and didn't want other people to know about it.
I get they may have wanted to surprise people like us with whatever they had (You Don't Say! would've been a pleasant surprise, and I remember reading a rumor that they had Second Chance), but one problem was that they started off with some lackluster shows and so there really weren't too many reasons to get excited about it.
The whole thing also kinda has the smell of John Ricci on it.
Honestly...I love the obscurities. The problem is, viewers like me are rare, so it's prolly not going to light up the charts, regardless of who the future star was. At the end of the day, very few outside of this forum have heard of
Crosswits, and if they have, then it's a faint memory. Even fewer people are aware of
Babble. It doesn't help that the shows were mediocre at best, so GSN pretty much has the "Before They Were Stars" factor and not much else. It'll either work or it doesn't...and we saw what happened.
And honestly, I know John rubs a lot of people here the wrong way, but he deserves some credit for getting some of the stuff on GSN.
Doesn't really make sense to me,
I suspect that ultimately you're just going to have to accept this.
Trust me, I get that. Doesn't mean I have to like it, but yeah.
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What exactly are you saying here? Matt said he was sworn to secrecy. Is it a bummer? Maybe, but there's not much you can do. I doubt he risks burning a bridge (and maybe that's excessive, who knows) just to let us in on what is now a moot point.