For a hopeless Cash Cab fan like moi, I like that GSN is piloting a show called Games Across America with Ben Bailey. To be honest, the premise sounds pretty lame. Instead of a genuine game show, the series just wanders across the country looking for oddball competitions. "From extreme poodle grooming, to the Redneck Games, to the Rock Paper Scissors World Championship." I don't care much about poodles...or any of the other projects.
But it's nice to see the network is interested in Ben's services. Meanwhile, GSN will also pilot The Imposter with Finesse Mitchell as the host. A family with an imposter among them has to fool some houseguests. Again, the premise sounds like too many dull reality shows I've seen.
Development proceeds on other projects as well. And to be frank, none of them look very appetizing to me, either. (Yes, I'm grumpy today.) It Takes A Church is the church-based dating game we've heard about. Then there's As Seen on TV with hopeful inventors, Swarm with a hundred contestants facing physical challenges, Skin Wars with body painting, Penny Pinchers with tightwads competing for cash, and Say What with a version of the parlor game "telephone."
None of these shows may make it to air. But the general theme looks like reality stuff in search of younger demos. GSN usually flops with such efforts.
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