One other April 1 change that Scott Rahner pointed out at his new blog, Game Show Network News: GSN will start running John O'Hurley's bullseye Family Feud episodes from the 2009-10 season, which of course was O'Hurley's last. I didn't notice this in the pdfs, but the new eps are a fairly significant addition. I wasn't thrilled with the bullseye round, but I wasn't horrified by it, either. Just another wrinkle in the gameplay.
Other poster: I did notice the "New" designation on the O'Hurley eps. Welcome change for me, O'Hurley was my favorite of the 2000's hosts.
Roger Dobkowitz made a funny remark about O'Hurley in that endless interview he gave to Slow Boat to The Land of Parting Gifts:
There was a good description going around the stage when John O’Hurley did the test shows...it was Shakespeare’s version of The Price Is Right! John was very dignified doing the games. His deep resonating voice used perfect English with faultless enunciation. Needless to say, all of this was not a good match for our show.
You know, John did the Shakespeare version of Family Feud. I've been watching his eps a lot lately, and yeah, it's the deep voice and the perfect English and the faultless enunciation. Don't know if that's exactly my favorite style for Feud, but it sure is different from the current incumbent. Steve Harvey does the anti-Shakespeare version, which the Nielsen Company says is far more popular. Richard Karn was somewhere in-between.
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