Changes are about to rain down on the GSN schedule. A new originals block on Monday night replaces the ratings-starved million-dollar shows. 100K Pyramid takes over the entire retro block on Friday night. And Dancing With the Stars gets a (restrained) debut on Saturday night, January 21.
Naturally, folks chat about these and other topics on the GSN schedule board. Some of my personal chatter...
Other poster: It seems quite evident now since the show is about to disappear from the schedule completely that the lease on the 1985-1986 season of $25K [Pyramid] is about to expire.
I've seen lots of comments about GSN leases but never any evidence for the comments. Where does all this mysterious information come from? Does anybody actually have reliable info about the leases?
Other poster: Or better yet, [a return of] Donny's Pyramid, right?
The show did decent numbers in the afternoon. Three weeks of ratings were published for Donnymid. A 313K average for June 1-6, 2009, 265K for July 27-August 2, 2009, and 292K for August 17-23, 2009. Not bad. But GSN has never seemed very enthusiastic about the show. I like Donnymid's tighter time limit, but I'm not holding my breath on a return to GSN.
And by the way, I'm really not holding my breath on that endlessly rumored remake with Andy Richter. That version seems trapped in eternal development hell.
Other poster: Off topic but I was looking at ratings again from the week of December 5-11, and Lingo at midnight is not doing bad at all.
That may be why GSN is giving it the first shot in the Monday originals block. But if people complain about the rerun abuse of 400 Match Game episodes, how about the incredible abuse of those 40 eps of Engvall Lingo? It's almost ridiculous how many times each episode has been ground through the recycle crusher in the six months since the show debuted.
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