Fading deal

GSN is pulling Deal or No Deal from its Thursday night schedule and replacing it with Catch 21. How the mighty have fallen. DOND blew the Nielsen doors off when it debuted on GSN in 2009 and soon dominated the network. But nothing lasts forever on TV and nothing lasts for more than a day or two (slight exaggeration) on cable.

Deal or No Deal never got much respect on the game show Internets, though grubby old regular TV viewers didn't mind it at all. I always liked mentally calculating odds and expected values and probable next offers. But I'm an actuary, so I'm strange that way.

Oh well, I dropped a note on the GSN Internet board about the show's fadeout from our little game show network...

The pdfs are up on the blog if you want to check the [Catch 21] episode numbers. I personally like Deal or No Deal a lot more than Catch 21. Don't have much use for Alfonso. But it's no big deal (pun intended) because the show has enjoyed such a long run on GSN. Once upon a time DOND was keeping this network afloat. Just looked at the numbers for April 12-18 2010, for instance. Deal or No Deal had eleven of the top twenty slots, all of them with 420K or more viewers.