Changing with the breeze

A couple posts back I mentioned that GSN was dropping its Thursday night stack of Deal or No Deal in favor of Catch 21. A wise commenter noted that GSN's schedule changes more often than the mood on Wall Street.

Of course, that commenter has been proven right, and on Thursday nights no less. GSN will debut two new shows long in development, American Bible Challenge and Beat the Chefs, on Thursday, August 23. The Bible goes first at 8:00PM, which is a nice biblical hour, I guess.

Jeff Foxworthy will host the Bible quizzer, and the press release includes a big glossy picture of him. (I didn't use it in the linked version of the release.) This looks like a very traditional game show and might appeal to GSN's old-skewing, female-skewing audience. The cooking show sounds like a low-rent Iron Chef, and I'm not sure how it will fare with the network's game show fans. American Idol finalist Matt Rogers hosts. GSN calls both shows "shiny floor games," a phrase that has already evoked ridicule around the game show Internets.

I assume lots of repeats will dot the schedule, so there will be additional shakeups. The more things change at GSN...