Remember the marathon

With nothing much else to do, the GSN board got to considering a possible return of CBS' Gameshow Marathon from the summer of 2006. Most everybody thinks the chances are slim, none, and worse than none. My little contribution...

Other poster: I defer to Casey Abell and Alex Davis for my ratings info. 

Well, thanks. I did a Google search for ratings information on Gameshow Marathon and came up with this... 

The show did pretty good in ratings actually. The series premiere got pretty decent ratings (5.5/10), then the next episode the next day got even better ratings. The next few episodes didn't do quite as good, but then the ratings went back up for the Match Game episode (5.1/10) and the final episode (4.9/9). The show was in the top 20 in weekly ratings a few times too (although that's only because it's summer). 

Those overall household ratings are certainly acceptable for summer fare. (Yes, you have to adjust for the general fall in broadcast network TV ratings year after year.) My guess is that the show skewed old, though, and CBS didn't like that. Same thing happened to Million Dollar Password. Okay household ratings but a very old skew. 

For what it's worth, which ain't much, I'd like to see CBS try another marathon one of these years. But like most everybody else on the thread, I am not holding my breath.