Overexposed

Happened to watch a lot of GSN last night with my wife. By the end of the experience, she had had enough.

Which seemed a little strange to me. We were watching game shows, after all. How could anybody get overexposed to our little genre? Well, apparently it's quite possible for a lot of people. Game shows have always been niche programming in American television, though they've had their moments of great popularity.

Maybe I needed the useful reminder that not everybody shares my interest in game shows. I get caught up in watching and blogging and arguing about the shows so much that it seems like the whole wide world must feel the same enthusiasm. Not so, you naive game show blogger. Most of the world does not care, and emphatically so.

Luckily, enough folks do care to keep the genre alive, despite frequent signs of exhaustion or extinction or both. Game shows have survived the rigging scandals, a decades-long exile from broadcast prime time, and Extreme Gong. They can probably survive a lot of folks' indifference to them.