If there's one thing you can expect from the GSN Internet boards, it's complaints about overuse of Deal of No Deal, even though that overuse is now waning. My ramblings on the subject...Other poster: Is anyone else tired of seeing Deal or No Deal on GSN all the time? Seems every time I tune in, that show's on again!
Syndie Deal has already lost all but one of its weekday slots. The network version will lose its 7:00 PM weekday slot and may lose its 11:00 PM weekday slot when Drew and Wendy debut in April. The network version also lost a couple weekend slots recently. A major cutback for Deal or No Deal is happening.
Deal wasn't doing bad at all in the latest published week, December 20-26. Syndie Deal averaged 323K for its fifteen runs, the network version 282K for its 13 runs. Hardly terrible numbers, despite massive rerun abuse. My guess is that the show will eventually turn up in the morning when GSN cuts back the pre-1990 hours. But for now GSN is giving the show some rest.
Kind of interesting that Deal has gotten at least decent numbers throughout its runs on GSN with virtually no prime time exposure at all. It's been months since it had a single prime time slot, and it never had a regular weekday prime slot.
So it wouldn't surprise me to see GSN use the show in a low-rent zone like weekday mornings sooner or later...just as one-time network dominator Millionaire now gets a late night slot (which not so incidentally used to be reserved for pre-1990 shows).
Of course, everywhere except in the most hardcore precincts Regis Millionaire would now be considered a classic itself. If you look at GSN's early schedules, a lot of the shows now called "classics" had less age on them than Regis Millionaire does now.
And I remember the same complaints on these boards about Millionaire overuse that we now hear about Deal or No Deal.
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