No more "Russian Roulette"?

[kelvint]

I just read an Houston Chronicle interview with Mark L. Walberg, and this caught my eye at the very end:

(10) And what about Russian Roulette?

\"It's not likely that more episodes will be made. People love the show. I'd like to meld that one into Temptation Island so that in the final bonfire, when they break up, we just drop the other person through a hole.\"

If Walberg's right, we may have seen the end of RR as a GSN original.

[Yahtzee72]

Someone posted an e-mail from Gunnar Wettenberg at GSN, and he said that there will indefinetly be more, just not for a while. Lemme go see if I can dig up the thread.

[Brandon Brooks]

and he said that there will indefinetly be more

Which means there will be no more?

Brandon Brooks

[ITSBRY]

It would be a real shame if RR were not renewed.  This is a good simple show.  I think it deserves a try in Syndication or maybe nighttime network.

I do think they should bring back the original end game though.

ITSBRY
itsbry@juno.com

[Grant78898]

I wouldn't care if it got cancelled. I liked the show at first, but then it just got old. Cancel it and replace it with a classic! (like TTD)

[HYHYBT]

Has any GSN original *ever* had more than two \"seasons\"? I can't think of any.

[vtown7]

Has any GSN original *ever* had more than two \"seasons\"? I can't think of any.

This reminds me of the Nickelodeon game show philosophy in the late eighties/early nineties: let the show get popular, issue another set of episodes and then BAM! You're in reruns! (and now it's BAM! You're on GaS).  

Shows such as Finders Keepers, Think Fast, Get The Picture, Nick Arcade pop to mind (of course, as I'm Canadian, I never saw any of these shows in first run*, so I might be totally wrong).

And then there's something called \"Double Dare\" that bucked the trend.  I'm sure none of you have heard of it.

Cheers,

Ryan V.

*Nick Arcade ran on YTV in the early to mid nineties at 5.30 pm.  Why they wouldn't pick up DD or FK is beyond me, though.

PS - Love that quote box!

[zachhoran]

Legends of the Hidden Temple also bucked the \"two seasons and goodbye\" Nick trend,  running either three or four seasons on Nick. GSN has YET to keep an original for more than two \"seasons\". Lingo and Whammy! and possibly Cram are likely candidates to get a third season, but we will see.

[ilb4ever2000]

GSN has YET to keep an original for more than two \"seasons\".

Didn't Inquizition go into a third season before it was finally canned?

[Card Shark]

[quote name=\'Grant78898\' date=\'Jun 16 2003, 11:52 PM\'] I wouldn't care if it got cancelled. I liked the show at first, but then it just got old. Cancel it and replace it with a classic! (like TTD) [/quote]
 I wouldn't be either. I just finished talking with a friend of mine about the recent programming moves of GSN and we miss the May 2001 era when more classics were on.

[uncamark]

This reminds me of the Nickelodeon game show philosophy in the late eighties/early nineties: let the show get popular, issue another set of episodes and then BAM! You're in reruns! (and now it's BAM! You're on GaS).

Shows such as Finders Keepers, Think Fast, Get The Picture, Nick Arcade pop to mind (of course, as I'm Canadian, I never saw any of these shows in first run*, so I might be totally wrong).

Besides \"Legends,\" \"Make the Grade\" actually ran two series with Lew Schneider in New York (the game board changed fonts and icons in the second series) and one series with Robb Morris in Orlando.

And it seems to me that \"Figure It Out\" eked out three series (regular, \"WildStyle\" and \"FamilyStyle\"?).

[zachhoran]

I think MTG's life span was still less than two years of first-run despite having three different \"seasons\". Only Double Dare and Legends of the Hidden Temple and I believe Figure it Out lasted more than two years between first and last original aired episode.

[Seth Thrasher]

# of seasons list, Nick Game Shows (Seasons, in Nick Terms, are per batch of eps ordered...Sorta like GSN Originals)

Double Dare - 9 (DD '86, DD '87, SSDD '87, DD '88 #1, Fox FDD, DD '88 #2, SSDD '89, FDD '90, FDD '92)
Finders Keepers - 3 (Eure '87, Eure '88, Toffler '88)
Make the Grade - 3 (Schnieder '89, Schnieder '90, Morris '91)
Think Fast - 2 (Carrington '89, Lackey '90)
Wild & Crazy Kids (Original) - 2 ('90, '92)
What Would You Do - 2 ('91, '92) (I'm not sure on this one, since It's been ages since I've seen it)
Nick Arcade - 2 ('91, '93)
Get the Picture - 2 ('91 #1, '91 #2)
GUTS - 4 ('92, '93, '94, '95 [Global Guts])
Legends of the Hidden Temple - 3 ('93, '94, '95)
Figure It Out - 4 ( '97, '98 #1, '98#2 [Family Style], '99 [Wild Style])
You're On - 2 ('97, '98) (I'm not positivie on this one, either)
Double Dare 2000 - 2 ('00 #1, '00 #2)
Wild & Crazy Kids (New) - 1 (2002)

I think that's it.   Remember, that's broken down by seasons [A Season for Nick is 1 production Order]

And, in talking first aired to last aired.

DD - 1986/1993
FK - 1987/1989 [Last eps were in '89, with '88 copyright date]
MTG - 1989/1991
TF - 1989/1990
W&CK - 1990/1993
WWYD - 1991/1993 (Not Entirely Sure)
NA - 1991/1994
GTP - 1991/1992
GUTS - 1992/1995
LoTHT - 1993/1995
FiO - 1997/2000
YO - 1998/1999 (Not Entirely Sure)
DD2k - 2000/2001
WACK - 2002 (Shortest run of ANY Nick Original to date)

[tommycharles]

[quote name=\'HYHYBT\' date=\'Jun 17 2003, 01:30 AM\'] Has any GSN original *ever* had more than two "seasons"? I can't think of any. [/quote]
 I don't believe any GSN original has had more than two seasons, but has any GSN original had more than 130 eps produced? I seem to remember that HS had 165 done, but I might be talking out of my rear.

[uncamark]

I don't believe any GSN original has had more than two seasons, but has any GSN original had more than 130 eps produced? I seem to remember that HS had 165 done, but I might be talking out of my rear.

You're correct--100 the first cycle (which was shared with Pax) and 65 the second GSN-only cycle.

But it seems to me that \"Inquizition\" got to at least 100 episodes a year for both of the years it was on...