Challenging topic

The GSN board gets into a discussion of the British network Challenge, more or less the equivalent to GSN across the pond.

The thread wanders onto BuzzerBlog's Alex Davis as well. I chip in some mutterings...

Other poster: I don't know what Challenge's schedule looks like as a whole, so I can't necessarily [comment] per se.

It's easy to find the schedule for Challenge. You can check the upcoming week here. Challenge is hardly an all-game-show network. They even run TNA wrestling, for crying out loud, plus some other shows that would have posters around here howling about "reality crap." Like the show about soccer (or "football" as the Brits say).

That said, the network does carry a game show with Jerry Springer! Plus some Japanese game shows (presumably with overdubbing).

As for British game shows in general, they make some good ones, they make some bad ones, they make some in-between ones. Pretty much the same as us hapless colonials. I think Alex Davis' "the British are better than us" shtick on BuzzerBlog is silly, but I'm biased. Alex doesn't think too highly of me, after all.

One other thing: Alex has made his indifference to older game shows plenty clear on a number of occasions. But he did have a kind word for Match Game once. It's apparently his favorite among the classics.