When they're not tracking every twist and turn of the GSN schedule, posters on the GSN boards sometimes talk about syndicated game shows. Poster "groundchuck" (meaty name) started a chat on why the current syndie Family Feud doesn't get the same respect as the old Dawson and Combs versions. Maybe he's been hanging out on the older-is-better game show Internets for too long. The Nielsen Company (and they're the ones who count, literally and figuratively) gives the current syndie Feud plenty of respect. That's why it's lasted all these years and now holds the number three slot among syndie game shows behind only the twin towers.
Another poster "SpeedAndStrategy" replied with a long review of the syndie's four hosts. He dissed Louie Anderson, was tepid on Richard Karn, praised John O'Hurley with reservations, and heaped hosannas on Steve Harvey.
I think S&S undervalues the very likable Karn, who still gets terrific ratings on GSN reruns. I'm more ambivalent about O'Hurley's sometime patrician airs. Game shows are low-rent efforts aimed at the hoi polloi, after all. And although I can't deny that Harvey has revived the ratings, maybe he hogs a little too much attention with standup material.
Have to agree completely on Louie, though. Not the show's finest hour.
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