Another "What if" idea for Fremantle and classic game shows

[dtheine]

Here's another "What If" idea for Fremantle and its classic game shows if GSN can't approve a new deal...

What if Time Warner (owners of Warner Bros., The CW Network, DC Comics, HBO, CNN, TBS, TNT, Turner Classic Movies, Cartoon Network, Hanna-Barbera, Looney Tunes, and the magazines of Time and People and Sports Illustrated and Entertainment Weekly among others) struck a deal to acquire Fremantle Media? If it did, Time Warner could own the rights to Fremantle's Goodson-Todman classic game shows (TPIR, Match Game, Tattletales, Family Feud, What's My Line, To Tell The Truth, Beat the Clock, Card Sharks, I've Got a Secret, etc.) and the other classics Fremantle owns (Press Your Luck, Sale of the Century, Chuck Woolery Scrabble, Let's Make a Deal, David Ruprecht Supermarket Sweep), and the reality shows Fremantle owns (American Idol, America's Got Talent)? If there's a Time-Warner/Fremantle merger, we could see a possible launch of a classic game show cable channel of Fremantle/Goodson-Todman classics (and maybe some of the game shows/reality Warner Bros. owns - 3rd. Degree, Love Connection, People's Court, Fun House, Perfect Match 1986, $1,000,000 Chance of a Lifetime, So You Think You Got Troubles, Real People) to compete with a maybe aling GSN? Why not? The Time Warner owned Cartoon Network airs the Fremantle produced Hole in the Wall, and this could get TPIR host Drew Carey back to his roots since Warner Bros. produced The Drew Carey Show.

What do you think of this idea?

[pzimm7778]

Here's another "What If" idea for Fremantle and its classic game shows if GSN can't approve a new deal...

What if Time Warner (owners of Warner Bros., The CW Network, DC Comics, HBO, CNN, TBS, TNT, Turner Classic Movies, Cartoon Network, Hanna-Barbera, Looney Tunes, and the magazines of Time and People and Sports Illustrated and Entertainment Weekly among others) struck a deal to acquire Fremantle Media? If it did, Time Warner could own the rights to Fremantle's Goodson-Todman classic game shows (TPIR, Match Game, Tattletales, Family Feud, What's My Line, To Tell The Truth, Beat the Clock, Card Sharks, I've Got a Secret, etc.) and the other classics Fremantle owns (Press Your Luck, Sale of the Century, Chuck Woolery Scrabble, Let's Make a Deal, David Ruprecht Supermarket Sweep), and the reality shows Fremantle owns (American Idol, America's Got Talent)? If there's a Time-Warner/Fremantle merger, we could see a possible launch of a classic game show cable channel of Fremantle/Goodson-Todman classics (and maybe some of the game shows/reality Warner Bros. owns - 3rd. Degree, Love Connection, People's Court, Fun House, Perfect Match 1986, $1,000,000 Chance of a Lifetime, So You Think You Got Troubles, Real People) to compete with a maybe aling GSN? Why not? The Time Warner owned Cartoon Network airs the Fremantle produced Hole in the Wall, and this could get TPIR host Drew Carey back to his roots since Warner Bros. produced The Drew Carey Show.

What do you think of this idea?

I doubt Time Warner has any interest in old game shows, period.

[Chameleonwhammy]

Will these things ever stop?

Can switching to Geico save you 15% or more on car insurance?

[TVLubber]

To answer dtheine's question, nobody knows. BTW, FremantleMedia does NOT own Supermarket Sweep (in the U.S.).

[unknownlurker]

Will these things ever stop?

Probably not.

[patnvanna83]

hey Chameleonwhammy, if you wanted to do a Geico rhetorical question commercial parody it should have been like this:

could switching to Geico really save you 15% or more on car insurance?

is airing reruns of Dancing With The Stars on GSN a bad idea?

(GSN fans throw their TV's out of their window's and start cursing and getting angry and have riots)

(Followed by the losing horn sound melody from TPIR)

Geico, 15 minutes could save you 15% or more on car insurance.

[BarkerisEvil]

Probably not.

I'm glad they won't stop.

[dtheine]

hey Chameleonwhammy, if you wanted to do a Geico rhetorical question commercial parody it should have been like this:

could switching to Geico really save you 15% or more on car insurance?

is airing reruns of Dancing With The Stars on GSN a bad idea?

(GSN fans throw their TV's out of their window's and start cursing and getting angry and have riots)

(Followed by the losing horn sound melody from TPIR)

Geico, 15 minutes could save you 15% or more on car insurance.

Nice Geico commercial parody, tell that to the Geico Gekko, the Geico Caveman, and even the Geico pig who goes WEE WEE WEE all the way home!

[PTH123]

Maybe it will, eventually.

[patnvanna83]

oh gee thanks dtheine!

also while were on the subject of telling that to Geico characters maybe i should also tell it to the Geico Rhetorical Questions guy as well huh?

because that's where i got the idea from.

[danagsk8]

Will these things ever stop?

I sure hope not. The sheeple at GSN deserve all the "whining" they get from fans of classic and quality programming (such as dtheine and myself).

[PTH123]

I sure hope not. The sheeple at GSN deserve all the "whining" they get from fans of classic and quality programming (such as dtheine and myself).

Well, It may will, soon.

[dtheine]

I sure hope not. The sheeple at GSN deserve all the "whining" they get from fans of classic and quality programming (such as dtheine and myself).

What are SHEEPLE?

[Mystic]

To answer dtheine's question, nobody knows. BTW, FremantleMedia does NOT own Supermarket Sweep (in the U.S.).

During the credits they show the FremantleMedia logo though.

[dtheine]

During the credits they show the FremantleMedia logo though.

David Ruprecht Supermarket Sweep was a show GSN could have picked up if it didn't waste money on Dancing With the Stars reruns, same for reruns of Shop Til You Drop with Pat Finn! :-(