GSN checkerboard

Douglas has skipped ahead to the week of November 14-20 in his GSN viewer numbers. Unfortunately, some of the times are scrambled - not complaining, Douglas, keep up the good work! - so I can't be absolutely sure of the following averages. But they're pretty close.

The huge winner in GSN's new checkerboard schedule is 5th Grader. The show landed three of GSN's top five slots for the week and racked up an impressive 372K viewer average for its five-hour Sunday marathon. Deal or No Deal also performed very well with its marathon on Thursday, a 356K average. Those are exact averages, by the way. No problem with the times on those shows.

Best that I can figure, these are the averages for the 7:00PM-12:00AM marathons on all the days in thousands of viewers...

Mon 202 - Million Dollar Password did best
Tue 272-275 - Newlywed Game (a little uncertain due to times)
Wed 304 - Baggage
Thu 356 - Deal or No Deal
Fri 250 - Pre-1990 shows, 25K Pyramid did best
Sat 293-298 - Family Feud (again, a little uncertain due to the time trouble)
Sun 372 - 5th Grader

The weak sister is clearly Monday, which has been a sore spot for a long time now on GSN. A lot of those million dollar shows have been severely rerun-abused. But the most abused of them all, Million Dollar Password, performed the best! Go figure. The pre-1990 marathon did semi-respectably on Friday but hardly set the Nielsen world ablaze, with the second-lowest average of any of the marathons. 25K Pyramid and Card Sharks delivered the best numbers. I love the first, don't love the second. Sadly, my beloved Match Game did the worst in the marathon.

The overall prime time (8:00PM-11:00PM) average for the new schedule was about 311K, which isn't terrible but ain't all that great. Again, there's a little uncertainty in this average due to the time trouble.