Family Feud has been renewedthrough 2015 on stations covering 75% of the country. And its timeslots have been upgraded to 5:00PM-8:00PM in over half the country.
I've complained that Steve Harvey tries too hard to make the show into his personal standup routine. So you can call me a hidebound traditionalist. But even grumpy me has to admit that standup routines can be very entertaining. And Steve has entertained folks enough to reinvigorate a very old franchise.
Let's face it, the format helps, too. Mark Goodson was right when he rated Feud very highly, behind only To Tell the Truth among his personal favorites. As Richard Dawson once observed, there's something downright visceral about two families duking it out.
And now they'll be duking it out for quite a while longer. And in better timeslots.
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