No, I'm not talking about the Richard Simmons Dream Maker experiment, which Buzzr has already announced as a "limited run only." (My guess is that it will be very limited.) Instead, I'm referring to the decision to pull Wordplay after only three airings. Now that is a really limited run.
The Buzzr announcement talks about "unforeseen circumstances" behind the quick hook. This has set off some wild-blue speculation that some performer or production company yelped about the long dead show seeing the light of diginet.
As I blathered in the comment thread, that's always possible. But a lot of Wordplay has been available on YouTube for a while now, and nobody's yelped about that. Maybe we can use Occam's shaving utensil and speculate that Buzzr execs just decided that the show was a dog. So they gave it the heave-ho and replaced it with their most reliable performer, Match Game. Gene and friends should be on Buzzr in prime time, anyway.
On the Buzzr Facebook page one viewer notes that Wordplay "is about as exciting as watching show melt." That's a little harsh, but there was a reason the show only lasted eight months in its original run.
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