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GAME SHOW FAN 87

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« on: January 02, 2006, 05:50:45 PM »
I was thinking about this today.  If most people work during the day, how come all these talk and court shows do so well and not game shows?
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clemon79

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« Reply #1 on: January 02, 2006, 06:31:02 PM »
[quote name=\'GAME SHOW FAN 87\' date=\'Jan 2 2006, 02:50 PM\']I was thinking about this today.  If most people work during the day, how come all these talk and court shows do so well and not game shows?
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What in the blue hell does one have to do with the other?
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Kevin Prather

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« Reply #2 on: January 02, 2006, 06:33:32 PM »
Talk and court shows air in the daytime. At least, I think that's what he means...
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TimK2003

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« Reply #3 on: January 02, 2006, 07:23:42 PM »
[quote name=\'GAME SHOW FAN 87\' date=\'Jan 2 2006, 05:50 PM\']I was thinking about this today.  If most people work during the day, how come all these talk and court shows do so well and not game shows?
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Depends what you mean by 'talk shows' nowadays.  About 10 years ago, trailer trash shows dominated the talk show market, while Rosie Oprah & Regis were about the only normal talk shows back then.  Nowadays Maury, Jerry and Montel are pretty much the last of the trashers and now we have more of the do-gooders (Tyra & Dr. Phil) and the gabfests with the stars (Ellen, Tony Danza...)

Court shows have been the only constant in the syndicated daytime market in the past dozen or so years -- maybe the judges and show names have changed, but not the content.
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« Reply #4 on: January 02, 2006, 07:24:31 PM »
[quote name=\'whoserman\' date=\'Jan 2 2006, 03:33 PM\']Talk and court shows air in the daytime. At least, I think that's what he means...
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Which still doesn't make a friggin' ounce of sense. All "people work during the day" means is that fewer people are watching TV during the day than do at night. Since ratings and shares and whatnot are a PERCENTAGE of the viewing audience, it's all relative anyhow.
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« Reply #5 on: January 02, 2006, 10:29:24 PM »
[quote name=\'GAME SHOW FAN 87\' date=\'Jan 2 2006, 05:50 PM\']I was thinking about this today.  If most people work during the day, how come all these talk and court shows do so well and not game shows?
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TV works in cycles. Every genre has an up and down period.

Game shows were:
-UP in the 70s
-DOWN in the early-80s
-UP for the mid-to-late-80s
-DOWN for the early-to-mid 90s
-Back UP for the late-90s to early-2000s

Now they've been down for a year or two. But they're slowly turning back up with D/ND being a hit, GSN starting to go back to traditional formats, and CBS' proposed Game Show Marathon. Hopefully some success with those ideas can lead to some more syndicated shows.
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« Reply #6 on: January 02, 2006, 10:54:28 PM »
For the 10,000th time: the networks have given weekday mornings back to the affiliates. You will never see Concentration on NBC in the morning again because NBC no longer programs weekday mornings. To convince 100+ affiliates to clear 1/2 hour in the morning to run Concentration would be, like, forget it.

TPIR is the last vestige of that era WRT game shows.
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Dbacksfan12

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« Reply #7 on: January 02, 2006, 11:10:32 PM »
[quote name=\'chris319\' date=\'Jan 2 2006, 10:54 PM\']For the 10,000th time: the networks have given weekday mornings back to the affiliates. [/quote]
so when wil CBS put card sharks and fmily fued back on?
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« Reply #8 on: January 03, 2006, 12:29:34 AM »
[quote name=\'TimK2003\' date=\'Jan 2 2006, 07:23 PM\'][quote name=\'GAME SHOW FAN 87\' date=\'Jan 2 2006, 05:50 PM\']I was thinking about this today.  If most people work during the day, how come all these talk and court shows do so well and not game shows?
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Depends what you mean by 'talk shows' nowadays.  About 10 years ago, trailer trash shows dominated the talk show market, while Rosie Oprah & Regis were about the only normal talk shows back then.  Nowadays Maury, Jerry and Montel are pretty much the last of the trashers and now we have more of the do-gooders (Tyra & Dr. Phil) and the gabfests with the stars (Ellen, Tony Danza...)

Court shows have been the only constant in the syndicated daytime market in the past dozen or so years -- maybe the judges and show names have changed, but not the content.
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Actually, court shows were around in daytime back in the 1960s.  Divorce Court existed in syndication then, and early in the decade there were a pair of court shows on two networks that did pretty well: ABC's Day In Court and CBS's The Verdict Is Yours.

And somehow, Montel doesn't strike me as that much of a trash show...but then, he's opposite Ellen around here so I rarely ever see his show.
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« Reply #9 on: January 03, 2006, 01:02:10 AM »
[quote name=\'Modor\' date=\'Jan 3 2006, 12:10 AM\'][quote name=\'chris319\' date=\'Jan 2 2006, 10:54 PM\']For the 10,000th time: the networks have given weekday mornings back to the affiliates. [/quote]
so when wil CBS put card sharks and fmily fued back on?
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« Reply #10 on: January 03, 2006, 01:19:16 AM »
[quote name=\'Modor\' date=\'Jan 2 2006, 11:10 PM\']so when wil CBS put card sharks and fmily fued back on?
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« Reply #11 on: January 03, 2006, 01:39:37 PM »
[quote name=\'catkins522\' date=\'Jan 3 2006, 02:19 AM\'][quote name=\'Modor\' date=\'Jan 2 2006, 11:10 PM\']so when wil CBS put card sharks and fmily fued back on?
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Forget it!  I want Super Password Plus and Match Game '0X!

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« Reply #12 on: January 04, 2006, 04:31:43 PM »
[quote name=\'catkins522\' date=\'Jan 3 2006, 01:19 AM\'][quote name=\'Modor\' date=\'Jan 2 2006, 11:10 PM\']so when wil CBS put card sharks and fmily fued back on?
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FAMILY FEUD FOREVER! (courtesy of CBS of course)
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« Reply #13 on: January 04, 2006, 04:34:18 PM »
[quote name=\'musicman\' date=\'Jan 4 2006, 04:31 PM\'][quote name=\'catkins522\' date=\'Jan 3 2006, 01:19 AM\'][quote name=\'Modor\' date=\'Jan 2 2006, 11:10 PM\']so when wil CBS put card sharks and fmily fued back on?
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FAMILY FEUD FOREVER! (courtesy of CBS of course)
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« Reply #14 on: January 04, 2006, 04:34:19 PM »
[quote name=\'musicman\' date=\'Jan 4 2006, 04:31 PM\']I second Modor's notion.

FAMILY FEUD FOREVER! (courtesy of CBS of course)
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