My TPiR-indifference kicks in again on the news that George Gray has won the job as the show's announcer. I like George, he did well on syndie Weakest Link. (We'll let Extreme Gong rest in peace.) But the announcer's role is usually not make-or-break on a game show. George will do fine, no doubt, and I'll stay hopelessly indifferent to shopping games in general and to that daytime CBS shopping game in particular.I'm really late on ABC's cancellation of All My Children and One Life to Live. But I don't watch soaps and ABC isn't replacing them with game shows. So why do I bother to comment? Good question. The replacements, by the way, are a cooking show and a talker.
God and game shows, an unbeatable combination. Just as Newlywed Game's Sherri Shepherd tells us that she's a "Jesus groupie," a dourer columnist assures us that the Almighty couldn't care less about game shows. The "groupie" comment sounds vaguely creepy, and I won't speculate about God's interest in whether Watson beats Jennings.
I'm really tired of Bob Barker and his elephant. The former game show host and object of numerous lawsuits is lobbying the city of Edmonton, Canada to ship their zoo's elephant Lucy to a more pleasant climate. The mayor of Edmonton is firing back, telling Barker to get a job and stop bothering everybody. The elephant is quite elderly by pachyderm standards, anyway, so I figure the dispute will soon be moot.
There's some good ratings news for Drew Carey and his improv troupe on GSN. Improv-a-Ganza bounced back to a respectable 420K viewers for its first-run last Friday. That looks to have been GSN's top-rated show for the day. Wendy Williams' Love Triangle garnered 330K viewers for its first-run. Overall, GSN averaged 329K for prime time and 294K for the entire 5:00PM-12:00AM window.
Power of 10 is croaking at 5:00PM, down to 188K viewers. And Love Triangle cannot withstand three runs a day. By its final 11:30PM run, the show got an embarrassing 150K viewers.
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