Chit chat

Pretty lazy this Sunday morning, so I'll just repost some chatter of mine from the GSN Schedule board. We should all recycle, right? (Sorry for the political correctness.)

Other poster: So movement down [in Family Feud ratings] is exciting?

Oh jeeze, it was just a little irony. Everything else was flat, but at least Family Feud was slightly different. So the news wasn't completely blah.

So far this season Family Feud is actually performing very well, with average viewership up over four million most weeks. I'm sure GSN would like to get Harvey Feud.

Other poster: Where do WOF and Jeopardy rank in terms of longest continuous running programs of all time?

They're getting up there. Especially Wheel, which has now been on continuously, in one form or the other, since 1975. But Meet the Press has both of them beaten by a mile. From the Wikipedia article (usual caveats): "It [Meet the Press] is the longest-running television series in American broadcasting history, despite bearing little resemblance to the original format of the program seen in its television debut on November 6, 1947."

Other poster: If Retro Fridays do a 295 and Karn/O'H Saturdays do a 297, why is one just good and the other solid?...Another poster responds: It was probably just a different use of words. I don't think he was trying to talk down or play up one over the other.

Of course, I was just using different phrasing. The complaint is groundless.

Other poster: So I really don't think Sherri and Jerry are doing that bad.

I agree they're not doing terrible by GSN standards. The real soft spot is Monday, but that day has been a problem for GSN for quite a while now. Million Dollar Password and Power of 10 perform a lot better on Saturday afternoon than on Monday night. Weird.

Other poster: Even Match Game and Dawson Feud showed up this week.

Dawson dropped a lot of the Card Sharks lead-in, from 357K down to 252K. Again, not a terrible number by GSN standards, but I would put 100K Pyramid at 10:00PM. I think it would hold Card Sharks' lead-in better.