As noted in the faux tweets, GSN's new Lingo with Bill Engvall debuted to good sampling, if not a blowout number. I chatted about the ratings on the GSN schedule board with my fellow number-crunchers...Other poster:
8:00PM Lingo 524K
8:30PM Improv-a-Ganza 219K
Oh, and Match Game at 11:30AM got a better rating (245K) than first-run Improv.
Is Improv-a-Ganza in first-runs any more? They only made 40 eps, didn't they? Anyhoo, it's no big deal to beat the improv bunch. Eighteen shows did it Monday.
By the way, at 11:00PM Drew also wasted about half of Lingo's lead-in. If the Engvall lead-ins are Improv-a-Ganza's last chance - and I think they are - the last chance is not off to a good start.
Averages for the day were 315K/238K prime time/total day. Really not bad by GSN's recent (wretched) standards.
Another poster: I know it was just the debut of Lingo but, GSN hasn't seen a 500K in awhile.
Caution: the last 500K+ number was...Drew's debut on April 11.
Yet another poster: So, if GSN were to put almost anything in the spot after Lingo, odds are they would get better numbers than Improv.
Getting to be a bore about this, but maybe GSN might try remaking that other word game which keeps showing up the top ten [Chain Reaction], and pair it with Lingo. A couple word games together seem to make more sense than a word game followed by a completely non-game comedy show. Or what's supposed to be a comedy show.
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