Wednesday, October 3, 2012

More Sherri

Sixty-five new eps of Sherri Shepherd's Newlywed Game start rolling on GSN October 25.

The show takes over from American Bible Challenge at 8:00PM Thursday. I doubt the newly hitched will get 900K viewers, but Sherri has generally done okay for the network. She also hasn't tried to dominate the show as much as I had feared. In fact, all things considered, she's been a pretty good host for GSN's reincarnation of the Eubanks epic.

I'll admit to a bit of old-fart nostalgia for the happy homewrecker, Bob Eubanks himself. GSN actually brought him back for a couple eps of their version, and I thought he did great. And I frankly didn't think that Carnie Wilson fared all that badly as the original host on GSN. But Carnie's relationship with the network dissolved in a nasty legal spat.

Okay, I'm not overly enthusiastic about any Eubanks-less version of Newlywed Game. But GSN could find worse things to spend their money on than Sherri's episodes.

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