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The flood of new non-traditional product continues at GSN. Even before Drew Carey's comedy show in March and Wendy Williams' talk show in April, we get the new season of High Stakes Poker in February. Compared to the other new offerings, though, the poker production almost looks a traditional game show. At least people play a real game for real money.

Poker has suffered from overexposure on two nights at GSN. The tweet from High Stakes Poker's production company says the debut date is February 26, a Saturday night instead of the usual Sunday slot for new episodes. We'll see what happens with the scheduling. Poker should be cut back to three or four hours on a single night, anyway.

As if High Stakes Poker doesn't have enough ratings worries already, the new season will lack some of the top pros like Tom Dwan and Phil Ivey. That's due to some stupid dispute between two online poker sites. I like High Stakes Poker and wish it well, but I'm starting to think its days are numbered at GSN. At least that would make some of the usual suspects on the GSN Classics board happy. They've ranted for years about non-traditional poker defiling GSN.

Of course, those same usual suspects don't mind Carey's completely non-game comedy show on GSN at all. The Internet is weird.