GSN schedule somersault

In one of the more bizarre moves by our little game show network, GSN has picked up Drew Carey's short-lived Power of 10 and installed it at 7:00 PM beginning March 28.

The show was an okay guessing game but never much of a hit, to put it gently. Meanwhile, a complete schedule shakeup for GSN, including the 7:00 PM hour, supposedly looms on April 11 with the debuts of Improv-a-Ganza and Love Triangle. My bewilderment from the GSN Schedule board...

Other poster: We'll find out for sure pretty soon, but once again, just another lesson on not trusting the PDF schedules.

That's for sure. This is just weird. Oh, it's not weird that GSN would eventually pick up a show with Drew. After all, they're betting the ranch on his comedy show. But a pickup out of nowhere just two weeks before a complete schedule scramble? And they put the show in the crucial access hour right before prime time?

There's not even time to get in all the episodes before the debuts for Drew and Wendy on April 11. I've seen some odd scheduling moves by this network, but this one ranks right up there. Just please don't ask me what's going to happen in a couple weeks. It's absolutely crazy to trust the pdfs even that far ahead. [Please note my caveat about the GSN schedules on this blog's sidebar. And please believe the caveat.]

Oddball theory: GSN got close to a deal for syndie 5th Grader but lost out to Hub. So they turned on a dime and picked up Power of 10. Hey, the theory is no stranger than this out-of-the-blue pickup and schedule switch.

UPDATE: Power of 10 will move to 5:00 PM on April 11 and will also get weekend exposure. So they're going to grind the handful of Power of 10 episodes through a weekday and weekend wringer. Even by GSN's lax standards of rerun abuse, that's awful. The show got lousy numbers in its original run! That's why it didn't last. I looked through all the ratings from TV by the Numbers, and they were mostly terrible. Maybe GSN figures the Drew-palooza will help, but that's a stretch.

Carrie Ann Inaba's previously scheduled return with 1 vs. 100 at 5:00 PM never even made it to air. That's when you know you're going bad. She's hanging onto one solitary slot on the weekend.