Celebrity Name Game canceled

[johnnya2k3]

It'll be Cedric.

Nope, it'll be Jimmy Kimmel! (they just announced it)

[TLEberle]

Jimmy Kimmel the Entertainer has no ring to it at all.

[johnnya2k3]

Jimmy Kimmel the Entertainer has no ring to it at all.

No, I meant Jimmy Kimmel will be hosting the 2017 Oscars. And, to the best of my knowledge, he'll be the third game show personality after Johnny Carson and Whoopi Goldberg to have that elite gig.

As for Name Game's cancellation: I wasn't surprised; its competition at 6:30 pm on WUPA here in Atlanta? The news!

[clemon79]

No, I meant Jimmy Kimmel will be hosting the 2017 Oscars. And, to the best of my knowledge, he'll be the third game show personality after Johnny Carson and Whoopi Goldberg to have that elite gig.

Proving once again that your knowledge isn't all that good, especially considering the can of worms you are opening by counting Goldberg.

[Jimmy Owen]

Jimmy Kimmel the Entertainer has no ring to it at all.

No, I meant Jimmy Kimmel will be hosting the 2017 Oscars. And, to the best of my knowledge, he'll be the third game show personality after Johnny Carson and Whoopi Goldberg to have that elite gig.

As for Name Game's cancellation: I wasn't surprised; its competition at 6:30 pm on WUPA here in Atlanta? The news!

Um. aren't you forgetting Conrad Nagel? 

[PYLdude]

I wasn't surprised; its competition at 6:30 pm on WUPA here in Atlanta? The news!

Feud competes against the news in that slot in New York and does just fine.

And you really don't know how to count because just by looking at the host list I found at least double your estimate, and that's panel members alone. (Certainly several had to have Got a Secret or where mystery guests on top of that.)

[TLEberle]

My level of caring about the Oscars is 0.95 honey badgers, but I just want the record to show that I was referring to Johnathan's pronouncement of Entertainer of the Year. The real news is that I forgot to buy a bottle of ketchup for the office kitchen this morning.

[BrandonFG]

As for Name Game's cancellation: I wasn't surprised; its competition at 6:30 pm on WUPA here in Atlanta? The news!

Go back to my original post. The show did ok, just not well enough to justify another season. The ratings in Atlanta don't indicate anything.

Again...I wonder if CNG gets renewed if Feud isn't on a roll, and has the mediocre numbers it did during the Karn era?

[johnnya2k3]

I wasn't surprised; its competition at 6:30 pm on WUPA here in Atlanta? The news!

Feud competes against the news in that slot in New York and does just fine.

And you really don't know how to count because just by looking at the host list I found at least double your estimate, and that's panel members alone. (Certainly several had to have Got a Secret or where mystery guests on top of that.)

Carson hosted "Who Do You Trust?" shortly before the Tonight Show, and Whoopi was center square/semi co-host on Hollywood Squares (Tom Bergeron). Alec Baldwin (current Match Game reboot) co-hosted in 2010 with Steve Martin, so that makes it four.

But Celebrity Name Game will go down in history as the only show to have eight closing logos, as opposed to four on the animated "Back To The Future" (which they showed on a quadruple-screen).

Maybe CNG should've considered moving production to New York -- where the more popular late night talk shows originate from nowadays -- instead of axing it.

[TLEberle]

Maybe CNG should've considered moving production to New York -- where the more popular late night talk shows originate from nowadays -- instead of axing it.

The upside of that is what, exactly?

[colonial]

Jimmy Kimmel the Entertainer has no ring to it at all.

No, I meant Jimmy Kimmel will be hosting the 2017 Oscars. And, to the best of my knowledge, he'll be the third game show personality after Johnny Carson and Whoopi Goldberg to have that elite gig.

As for Name Game's cancellation: I wasn't surprised; its competition at 6:30 pm on WUPA here in Atlanta? The news!

To clarify -- CNG was downgraded in Atlanta on WUPA-TV to 1:30am ET this fall. The station currently airs four episodes of FF in the 6-8pm block.

JD

[johnnya2k3]

Shouldn't you be preparing for your press conference to announce your Entertainer Of The Year?

...which was Netflix, by the way.

But Celebrity Name Game knew the writing was on the wall when it got banished to 1:30 in the morning here in Atlanta.

[aaron sica]

Shouldn't you be preparing for your press conference to announce your Entertainer Of The Year?

...which was Netflix, by the way.

Whoosh...........

[clemon79]

...which was Netflix, by the way.

Nobody cares. Seriously. Nobody. Friggin'. Cares.

[BrandonFG]

But Celebrity Name Game knew the writing was on the wall when it got banished to 1:30 in the morning here in Atlanta.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the game show industry doesn't revolve around what Atlanta does. It wouldn't be CNG's decision, it would be that of the syndicator.

First you said the show died because it couldn't beat the evening news. Now you're saying it's because it got banished to overnights. Make up your mind.

/Or don't...both theories are wrong