Yet more GSN

Realize this blog is looking more and more like GSN Central, but things are hopping right now.

Almost scary but GSN has taken my advice (okay, other people have been advising the same) and acquired at least one successful recent game show. Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? comes to the network starting 7:00PM Sunday, November 6. Nobody seems sure yet whether it's the network or syndie version.

The hour-long network episodes seem more likely because Hub already snagged the syndie. We'll see soon enough. Meanwhile, GSN has hired Kelly Goode's replacement as chief programming exec. She's Amy Introcaso-Davis, who worked at Bravo and Oxygen.

The press release on Amy talks about GSN's "core audience of adult females." That may well indicate a future concentration on traditional game shows instead of demo experiments like the expensive bombs Late Night Liars and Improv-a-Ganza. There's also chatter about "increasing original programming," but it will probably be safer, lower-budget stuff.

UPDATE: Looks like it's the hour-long network version of 5th Grader, according to this Hollywood Reporter story. In somewhat odd programming GSN will run the show in five-hour blocks every Sunday night from 7:00PM to midnight.