More Buzzr theorizing

A commenter noted some further tweaks to Buzzr's weekend schedule. I replied with a comment of my own. But in case you don't read the comments, and also to get another blog entry out of them, I'll repeat my conspiracy theories here. I need something to fill the blog with, don't I? And the nice thing about conspiracy theories is that everybody has a bunch of them...

Sounds like minor shuffling. Buzzr isn't going to pull a zillion more viewers with Password Plus instead of Beat the Clock.

When Buzzr tried the "newer" shows on Friday night, I thought we were going to see some big, splashy moves. Sounds like the diginet has just gone back to being a dusty backwater for moldy oldies and a tiny band of hardcore fans.

I have to wonder if the higher-ups at Fremantle even want to make a big success of Buzzr. If they were actually going for a bigtime game show network, they would be looking at rerunning the current versions of TPiR and LMAD, not to mention Harvey Feud. (Yeah, I know the problems with CBS on the first two shows, but I haven't heard any rumors that Buzzr is even trying to get the shows on the diginet.)

Maybe Fremantle really doesn't want to upset the apple cart with GSN. If I had to bet, I'd wager a large amount that GSN is providing a lot more revenue to Fremantle than Buzzr. In fact, I wonder if Buzzr is generating any profit for Fremantle at all.

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