Full disclosure

This blog is strictly nonprofit. That's what I deserve for the stuff I post here. But I once did get a bottle of wine from GSN as a Christmas present. And now I've gotten my second bit of ill-gotten gains: a poster and a CD from Buzzr.

A while back Buzzr wanted my home address. This gave me nightmare visions of Fremantle execs laying siege to my house until I said nice things about Sale of the Century. Luckily, Buzzr just wanted my address so they could send me a glossy 12"x18" poster of Alex Trebek on their Game Changers documentary (see screenshot). They also included a CD of the show, plus a piece of paper that said: "We are grateful for your continued support of Buzzr."

The funny thing is that I gave a not-so-great review to the documentary. The first part about pre-1980 game shows was okay, but Buzzr really bollixed up the post-1980 stuff, in my sour opinion. They completely overlooked cable game shows (and, not so incidentally, GSN) and seemed to think we were still back in the dark ages of three broadcasters and syndication and nothing else.

But enough of my cranky opinions. The Game Changers poster came in a very nice frame with scary instructions for hanging it on the wall. You're supposed to drill holes and do other mechanical things that look iffy to me. Maybe I'll try hanging the poster with some of the stickum stuff I've seen on those direct response ads on Buzzr.

SLIGHTLY RELATED UPDATE: Speaking of things from game show networks, GSN finally sent out the pdf schedules for the January 8-14 and January 15-21 weeks. The Saturday night oldies block gets trimmed to three hours, with Let's Make a Deal departing. I assume the numbers weren't so hot. As suspected, the January 21 William Shatner special is just a rerun of the 1984 show TV's Funniest Game Show Moments.

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