Anyhoo, in the least surprising news since the sun rose this morning, the older-is-better crowd at what's left of what used to be Matt Ottinger's board is trashing recent game shows. Of course, the board is enormously traditionalist. That guy at the top is Bill Cullen, who last hosted a game show a quarter-century ago.
Sorry to state the obvious, but it apparently needs stating. There have been a lot of bad game shows in every era. There were a lot of rigged game shows in the supposedly good old days. Hey, Bill Cullen hosted some bad game shows.
And a lot of the recent shows that get trashed are actually pretty good, or more than pretty good. Engvall Lingo, 5th Grader, GSN's Chain Reaction (much better than the old Cullen version, by the way), Stump the Schwab, to name a few. A lot of people enjoyed these shows and continue to enjoy some of them in reruns on GSN. But naturally they bring no joy to the older-is-better bunch.
It's really a little sad that date of production means so much to some game show fans. They just won't allow themselves to enjoy some good shows due to their ideological commitment to old stuff. Oh well, the rest of us don't have that problem.
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