[quote name=\'xibit777\' date=\'Jun 11 2005, 09:24 PM\']Does anyone know WHY on earth GSN would do this? It's not like they had a lot of great programming to air instead of the extra hour! [/quote]Clearly, they did. As you said, TWL, Feud, a whole bunch of stuff. I wonder, is most of that second hour taken up by the actual gameplay? If that's true, yes, I'd rather see Match Game PM. I know how the PYL game ends.
The weakest link after was lame.
Oh? Who were the players? What was the final pot? Perhaps GSN figured those who watched Big Bucks would stick around, and they'd get some spillover ratings for TWL. Which they could use.
And even the Family Feud was something I could live without in order to see Big Bucks in its entire format. Bad move on GSN's part.
Only in your judgment. If you don't like it, write a letter to whoever is in charge of the network these days. But "I'd rather see hour two than Feud/whatever" sounds like so much of whining, along with the credit rolls, lack of B/E shows, and so on. Be glad there's a GSN at all.
[quote name=\'xibit777\' date=\'Jun 13 2005, 06:11 AM\']Again I ask why GSN would have trouble finding places to schedule it? [/quote]We have established that the squeezing back to an hour was a deliberate move on the part of GSN. There is no trouble finding a spot for it. Chris Lemon already made any points I would make here, so I'll press on.
The whole station is completely devoid of new programming except for possibly a couple hours a week in primetime.
And? I would love to have Tic Tac Dough, Go! and TPIR back, but they're not. So I enjoy Lingo, Russian Roulette and Extreme Dodgeball because they're there. This isn't really an arguing point, as such.
Would FF or WL (before and after) really get better numbers than an extra hour of Big Bucks might get?
I don't know, but I know the guy who DOES know that. Hey, Alex! Get in here!
I guess now that TAR will be on from 9-10 every night, it ruins any 2 hour block for primetime. Could this be the first of many casualties from buying TAR?
OK, you have completely no basis to make claims like this. I applaud them for making an acquisition, even though it could be done and aired in 100 days, then shunted off to Rerun Hell. Good for them, though. It beats Greed: Cycle 8, and another Wednesday night of Dog Eat Dog. (oof.)
Give 'em a chance, if you're not already completely biased.