Sunday, November 4, 2012

Dealing for the Deal

A thread on the GSN board chatted about the idea of the network acquiring reruns of Wayne Brady's Let's Make a Deal.

Most posters thought the notion was hopeless, at least until CBS decides they don't want the wheeling and dealing anymore. I can't disagree with the consensus, but I still chipped in some comments about the hypothetical acquisition...

[CBS President] Les Moonves hasn't called me for ages - where are you, Les? - so I can't say exactly what he thinks about farming Let's Make a Deal out to our little game show network. My guess is that he's devoted pretty much zero thought to it, anyway.

If GSN could somehow pry reruns loose from CBS for reasonable money, they probably would be worth a shot. The last ratings I saw were around 2.5 to 3 million total viewers with the usual older skew. Don't think that reruns on GSN would be a huge hit but they would probably fetch acceptable numbers. Something like Minute To Win It, maybe a little lower.

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