GSN complaint department

Now and then I rummage through the blogroll to see what's happening at all those links.

Game Show Live takes time for some complaints about GSN and, guess what, Steve Harvey gets a drubbing. Nobody calls him perverted, though. The Nielsen Company calls him a winner, and that's why GSN uses his show a lot. The network is rolling right now with the all Steve prime time. Life is tough, no?

Another complainer moans about Cash Cab in the afternoon instead of Chain Reaction. If you can't stand Ben Bailey and one of the best game shows ever, life is really tough. Dylan Lane and company are still on the network, anyway.

Somebody else wants Shop Til You Drop back on GSN. They acquired the show in 2013 but it didn't work very well. STYD is a mediocre effort at best, though it does offer decent pace. Another poster asks for Millionaire at night. They gave it a try but the show hurt the prime time numbers.

Let's see, what else. Oh, Winsanity has a fan! A hardy admirer wants the show to return. Good luck on that one. The numbers went south in a hurry. And there's a dump on the pillarbox format of some older shows. I blogged about this a while back. It's an unavoidable artifact of old 4x3 shows on new 16x9 networks. Not much anybody can do about it.

Meanwhile, GSN is very happy with the status quo, thank you. They just sent out an unchanged pdf schedule for March 19-26.

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