America Says starts June 18 on GSN

[BillCullen1]

GSN is now airing promos with this start date. Will be seen at 5 pm ET. Be there, aloha.

[BrandonFG]

Hadn't heard of this one. Here's a little more on the show.

Including this one, how many GSN originals do we have in first-run? Assuming Idiotest, Divided, Winsanity, and Snap Decision still air, that's close to a half-dozen once America Says premieres.

[BillCullen1]

I believe Divided and Winsanity are the only other GSN originals in first run at this time. Snap Decision is off the GSN schedule as well as Idiotest. The latter is surprising.

[Flerbert419]

So when GSN takes a break airing Family Feud, you can try this Family Feud knockoff!

[BrandonFG]

So when GSN takes a break airing Family Feud

[TLEberle]

Including this one, how many GSN originals do we have in first-run? Assuming Idiotest, Divided, Winsanity, and Snap Decision still air, that's close to a half-dozen once America Says premieres.

Falling on the sword to be the "well, actually!" guy:

Idiotest was turfed in a slash-and-burn a year or so ago.
Divided and Winsanity air at three in the morning Pacific Time.
I do not see Snap Decision on the schedule.

/if I was giving a pass to resurrect just three shows to be on it would be Russian Roulette, Lingo and Idiotest.
//if we didn't have $100,000 Pyramid on ABC then The Pyramid would be fourth.
///a team on a recent episode of Divided had the team win $9, $5 and $2.

[BillCullen1]

The day has come. Actually GSN had a sneak preview of this show on Sunday night. Similar to Family Feud but with a twist. Four members on each team.

[Matt Ottinger]

John Michael Higgins is the character actor that you hire when your situation comedy does a game show episode.  He's your go-to guy when you want someone to play an insincere empty suit.  He's probably a decent guy to get all the work he has, and he might be just fine at this, but the clips just have an unreal quality to me because I expect him to be in character.

[BillCullen1]

So did anyone tune in to see this? What do you think? I think it's okay.

[SRIV94]

John Michael Higgins is the character actor that you hire when your situation comedy does a game show episode.  He's your go-to guy when you want someone to play an insincere empty suit.

Although I thought he did a more than passable David Letterman in The Late Shift.

[Jimmy Owen]

Looked like a sitcom parody of FF.

[TLEberle]

If you can stay awake to the last act the bonus game feels very familiar as it Tag-Team Pass the Buck. The main game has lots of playability but it feels closer to Hot Potato than Family Feud. The host is there, and the prize money is $15,000 split four ways. Better than some of their recent fare but utterly forgettable. C minus.

[jjman920]

I was very disappointed to watch the sneak preview and see that it was was same round three times with no deviation. If you're going to rip off Family Feud and Hot Potato at least do something different. Just comes off as so boring. Ugh.

I guess I should just be happy that GSN is still in the business of making originals, but man, I didn't think they'd go for "clone of the show we're already rerunning into the ground."

[TLEberle]

I guess I should just be happy that GSN is still in the business of making originals

Given that they let The Chase USA lapse, basically paved over Idiotest, Emogenius and Chain Reaction and banished Winsanity and Divided to the middle of the night, I guess this is one tiptoe in the right direction.

The Bob Stewart pilot Caught in the Act starring Jack Clark would be an easy game to replicate and one that five-nines worth of their viewing audience would not have heard of. Plus prizes like 50 Chinese Dinners would be miles better than "I'm going to give you a bonus thousand points!"

[clemon79]

Plus prizes like 50 Chinese Dinners

"Dear Lord, let us thank Bob Stewart for this bountiful Peking Duck before us tonight..."

/"actually that's God; he only THINKS he's Bob Stewart..."