Took a while for Douglas to resume his weekly number dumps for GSN. His latest batch covers the December 20-26 week. Events have overtaken the results to some extent. But my usual observations and ramblings...1) Overall averages were decent for the traditionally low-viewership Christmas week: 345K/279K prime time/total day. Not ginormous but certainly acceptable.
2) The four musketeers again triumphed. Jerry and Sherri teamed for 499K in the 6:00 PM hour. Karn and O'Hurley combined for 487K in the 8:00 PM hour. Easy to understand why they occupy such long stretches of the schedule.
3) Carrie Ann has now lost her weekday slots, but she didn't produce horrible numbers for the week: 383K at 7:00 PM. Okay, it's not Baggage territory but she hardly flopped. Unfortunately, her numbers headed downhill afterwards.
4) Syndie Deal or No Deal has seen its timeslots cut back, too, but the acquisition produced a reasonable 323K average for its fifteen half-hours. Catch 21 also performed okay with 340K for its afternoon runs. Alfonso has now been rewarded with a slightly better 5:00 PM slot.
5) Chuck just keeps on keeping on with a 366K average in the 3:00 PM hour. His noon and prime time slots didn't do as well but were not embarrassing. Word game partner Chain Reaction also posted a more than decent 360K in the afternoon.
6) Highest-rated pre-1990 show was 25K Pyramid at 1:30 AM with 257K. It benefited from an absurdly good lead-in from Mr. Karn at 1:00 AM with 327K. The B&W shows averaged 152K in the 3:00 AM hour. Respectable but really no better than Card Sharks.
7) My offbeat observation: the soon-to-depart World Poker Tour turned in a two-hour average of 247K at 1:00 AM. Not as good as Karn, of course, but it could have been a lot worse.
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