Clipped

On Sunday August 28 GSN trotted out three old clipfests of games shows from the '70s, '80s and '90s, which they first broadcast in 2008. I burbled about the clip shows and their ratings on the GSN schedule board...

August 28 ratings are up. The old clip shows did fine the first time around, naturally not so well in the immediate reruns. Averages were an okay 304K/250K prime time/total day.

The 10:00PM rerun of the '70s clip show pulled down the prime time average with its 176K number. Hard to understand why GSN immediately reran the clip shows. They should have just put three one-time runs in prime time and scored a nice average. Or put together a new 2000s clip show - it wouldn't have cost very much - and run that at 10:00PM. The top ten:

7:00PM Play It Back 70s Gameshows 393
8:00PM Play It Back 80s Gameshows 371
9:00PM Play It Back 90s Gameshows 366
11:30AM Catch 21 347
5:30PM Baggage 347
12:00PM 1 vs. 100 (Saget) 321
5:00PM Baggage 301
3:00PM Family Feud (Karn) 298
11:00AM Newlywed Game 296
3:30PM Family Feud (O'Hurley) 295

Other poster: As for the clipfests, I'm surprised they made the top 3.

I enjoyed the clip shows when they ran a few years back. I'm not surprised they did well this time around. The immediate reruns, though, were just strange. GSN should have spent a few bucks for a 2000s clip show - they've now got another decade to work with - and run it at 10:00PM after the three old shows. Would probably have scored the best number of the day and made the prime time average really good. The network's viewers would have enjoyed looking back on the decade when game shows returned to broadcast prime time.

Instead they reran that '70s show (pun intended), and of course it bombed since everybody had seen it just a few hours before. Which also loused up what should have been a very nice prime time average. Sometimes GSN makes really weird programming decisions.