Marathon runner

GSN just put out a press release with its marathon plans for the Christmas and New Year's holidays.

It looks like they're trying to please everybody, hardcore and casual fans alike. The purists like me get plenty of Match Game and Dick Clark's Pyramid. The non-purists like me get lots of American Bible Challenge, Minute To Win It, and Deal or No Deal. And for the in-between types like me, there's even a swatch of GSN's Pyramid revival.

As you might suspect from my descriptions, I like all the shows which are getting the marathon treatment. Even GSN's ratings-starved Pyramid revival is okay with moi, though most viewers seem to have been there and done that with the paint-by-numbers copy of the old Pyramid format. 

Match Game is timeless, though I'm sure we'll hear complaints that the episodes aren't "new" enough for GSN. (Obvious note: there are, of course,  no truly new eps of the old Match Game.) The repeat of the Bible quizzer will let folks who might have missed an episode or two catch up. 

But my secret wish - don't say it too loudly - is a marathon of Lingo's first season on the Dutch set. Cheap and tacky but the beginning of something big. Maybe we'll see it one of these years.

UPDATE: A poster on the GSN board noticed something on the pdf schedule for December 17-23...I see What's My Line on the PDF's as only the week of December 17th. Do we know if this is a two week or one week special for What's My Line and I've Got A Secret?

I would guess two weeks, like previous years. We'll see. By the way, one of the WML eps dates all the way back to the Hal Block days in 1953. There's a lot of interesting material on Block's eventual firing in the WML episode guide.