Schedules, we get schedules...

GSN is trying Baggage in the morning according to recently released advance schedules. This sets off much chatter on the GSN Internet board, and I can't resist chattering myself...

The schedules for the weeks of September 10-16 and September 11-17 are now up on the blog. They show the same changes as Zap2it, which is no surprise because Zap2it is operating from exactly the same e-mails that GSN sent to me.

Don't know yet if Baggage in the 8:00AM hour is permanent. It may just be a trial to see if GSN can get somebody to watch after five hours of infomercials. I get the feeling that American Bible Challenge, the new version of Pyramid, and the successful recent acquisitions (Harvey Feud, Minute To Win It, 5th Grader) are making GSN impatient with the skimpy morning numbers, and they're going to try some different things. The revolution of rising expectations may be making those morning numbers look really bad to GSN execs. 100K, 200K might seem pretty puny nowadays, when the Bible show pulls around a million.

Speaking of American Bible Challenge, the show continues to garner ridiculous numbers by GSN standards. The third ep got 942K viewers. Beat the Chefs dwindled to 300K, though. Still not a complete disaster but the trend is worrisome. The basic problem remains: Beat the Chefs is not a show for GSN's audience. It's not a quizzer, it's not a word game, it's not a stunt show. I personally think the cooking show is surprisingly entertaining, but I can see why it's a tough sell to game show fans.