Congrats to Steve

TVNewsCheck presents some really good ratings news for Steve Harvey's Family Feud. Steve has boosted the venerable survey-fest nicely in the Nielsen Company's numbers. The show has earned better timeslots in several markets as a result.

I have to admit that Steve is not exactly my favorite Feud host ever. He tries a little too hard to convert every show into the Steve Harvey standup routine. But who cares about my quibbles? The Nielsen sample says otherwise, and I'm not going to argue.

GSN would certainly like to pick up Harvey's version to complement their endless reruns of the Karn and O'Hurley seasons. But that may have to wait a while. Fremantle may not want to dilute their ratings-getter right now.

At least it's nice that one of the genre's oldest formats keeps chugging along. Mark Goodson thought Feud was one of Goodson-Todman's best formats ever, and time has proven him right.