How do you grade GSN do far this year?

[Gameheadz]

Taken from my blog:

Http://gsntheknow.blogspot.com

It's...The GSN THE KNOW....MID-YEAR....MIDTERM REPORT CARD!

That's right. We break down the year so far this year in GSN's history. First, the sucesses....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCIC0sBmzeM

Family Feud and Fifth Grader topple teh ratings almost every week. The reason: The acquisition of Steve Harvey's version of Feud. It seems that he can take a calssic and make it his own. his radio show, his soon to be TV talk show and pretty soon, a star on the Hollywood Walk of fame has made it an empire he's making. 2 legends passed away and they were Dick Clark and Richard Dawson. GSN did no wrong by paying tributes to them, but the Richard Dawson tribute paid respects including the 1994 family Feud episode GSN has never seen in a long while. We said hello to 2 classics retuning: Password Plus and Super Password. It was a long time coming, but it was worth it and they perform poorly ewach week. Along with new to the network episodes of 25K Pyramid, Sherriwed and Baggage also did it with open arms. But now we get to the failrues.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS7zX...feature=relmfu

There were a lack of classics. There are 5 instead of more we used to have 2 years ago. And there's a Feud overload. I don't get it. Too much Feud made you wish youd watch an All-Sportscenter channel, but it wouldn't happen. Then there's block scheduling. Right now, tehre are 3 Feud nights, but we still have Flashback Fridays and Baggage Wednesdays, Sherriwed tonight and Fifth Grader on Church day. Rerun Abuse always kicks in, why? because they want to, but of course, save for the biggest failure....DWTS on GSN. It was like in-laws moving in your house for the holidays and you've decided to move out to another house for safekeeping. The ratings slid down each week like a child on a slide at a playground. For all this, I grade GSN for the first 6 months of 2012....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNCcvap3zGk

a c minus. If it needs improvement, wait until August and you'll see. Now, the predictions....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwhPO...feature=relmfu

Lingo may be on the brink of cancellation, but i predict it may get a new season...

Baggage is coming to synidatcion soon, and it may knock the Stove Top stuffing out of.....whatever's on your antenna right now.

The American Bible Challenge and Beat The Chefs would become overnight runaway hits......

Pyramid may inject Fifth Grader and Feud out the top spots for good.....

War of the Roses may bomb quickly......

and finally, Real Life games may be pushed back, pushed back, pushed way back to next year. That ends the report card. What's your grade on it and what did you think of my predictions?

[CardSharks8689]

I grade it a C+. At least, despite removing my favorite classic, Card Sharks, off the lineup last April, the returns of Password Plus, Super Password, and brand new episodes of $25,000 Pyramid really makes up for the removal of CS. Not to mention that, despite Card Sharks being on the air last year, my grade last year was a D- because of rerun overkill of the classics. Nothing different, classicswise, last year. Thank goodness this year made up for last year's overkill. Not to mention that I didn't really care for Card Sharks minus the car game.

What I predict will happen later this year:

- Match Game and Dawson's Family Feud will finally go off the air after 14 years.

- $25,000 Pyramid will get rerun overkill by the fall (they'll revert back to June 20, 1986 on Friday nights by August or September).

If any or both of these events happen, it won't affect my grade at all.

[Lingofan97]

Damn. I was going to create a thread on this called "2012: First half". This is good enough

I'd give it higher than a C+ later. More to come...

[Lingofan97]

General Pros
*High Stakes Poker leaving the network
*GSN airing Jeopardy! again at 2am
*GSN adding new episodes of The Newlywed Game and Baggage
*Special tributes to Davy Jones, Dick Clark and Richard Dawson after deaths
*Acquiring Steve Harvey's Family Feud
*2012 Upfronts that included American Bible Challenge, The Pyramid, Beat the Chefs, and Newlywed Game sixth season renewal
*Acquisition of Password Plus and Super Password
*GSN bringing back Chain Reaction weekdays
*Taking off Dancing with the Stars in April
*Acquisition of The $25,000 Pyramid (1986 episodes)
*Acquisition of the 2008-09 season of Jeopardy!
*Mike Richards hosting The Pyramid

General Cons
*GSN Acquires Dancing with the Stars
*"Dance of a Lifetime" competition
*2012 upfronts that included new reality shows, including War of the Rose Sisters
*GSN not renewing leases on 1 vs 100 and Power of 10
*Removal of Card Sharks from mornings and latenights (added by to CardSharks8689)

Scheduling Pros
*Catch 21 at 4 and 4:30pm
*Family Feud block moved an hour later from 4-6pm to 5-7pm
*Block scheduling shortened by an hour (11 and 11:30pm)
*$100,000 Pyramid added at 10:00am
*Baggage and Lingo (Engvall) switched latenights (12am and 1:30am)
*Baggage replaced in its Wednesday night block
*Password Plus and The $25,000 Pyramid added to weekends
*The Newlywed Game Saturday block from 3-5pm
*Harvey Feud scheduled in great time slots, 6pm weekdays, 5pm weekends, 11pm 7 days a week
*Chain Reaction added weekend mornings at 10:30am
*Whammy added weekend mornings at 10am
*Jeopardy! axed weekends at 9am
*Deal or No Deal airings limited to 14 times a week, down from around 25 in October 2011

Scheduling Cons
*25 Hours of Dancing with the Stars a week
*Poor Sherri and Jerry new episode scheduling
*Dawson Feud pushed back to 8am weekdays; replacing Match Game which was doing well
*Same episodes repeat in same night of block scheduling
*2010-11 season of Harvey Feud burned through quickly
*88 airings of Family Feud a week (unlikeable to some)

Anything else to add? Private message me.

[Lingofan97]

So from above, my general grade for January through June of 2012 is...

A- (about a 91/100).

This of course, is from all the "bad" in 2011. And as mentioned in another thread, the schedule is packed with traditional game shows.

[XkaVader1]

D+

Too much Family Feud and WAYYYY too much Dancing With The Stars (especially the hype with the commercials). However, classics like Whammy and Chain Reaction came back to the schedule, so that saves GSN from getting an F from me. Not to mention, even though I said there's too much Feud, they brought in Steve Harvey's version. For this channel, that's another plus. Still, not too impressed with GSN so far this year, but that's my opinion.

[phimat37]

I'll give it a B- and work on up if GSN becomes any better. All the pros I like, but GSN should have never gotten rid of Card Sharks (Perry) at 10am. That was gold there along with 25K Pyramid. So, here's what I would do to fix the program schedule.

Weekday:
8:00am - Match Game
8:30am - Family Feud (Dawson)
9:00am - Match Game
9:30am - Family Feud (Dawson)
10:00am - Card Sharks (Perry)
10:30am - The $25,000 Pyramid
11:00am - Password Plus
11:30am - Card Sharks (Eubanks)
12:00pm - Jeopardy!
12:30pm - Super Password
1:00pm - Pyramid (Osmond)
1:30pm - Deal or No Deal (Syn)
2:00pm - Whammy!
2:30pm - Chain Reaction
3:00pm - Lingo (Woolery)
3:30pm - Lingo (Woolery)
4:00pm - Catch 21
4:30pm - Catch 21
The rest would basically stay the same, I wouldn't change anymore.

I put Whammy and Chain Reaction at 2pm because it might do well in ratings, and Woolery Lingo should go in at 3pm again. Catch 21 has done well at 4pm to.

Pyramid (Osmond) and Deal or No Deal (Syn) are put there for some airtime.

I put MG and FF from 8-10am because they deserve somewhat more respect than they are getting now. Well, there is reasoning behind this scheduling.

[Lingofan97]

What I predict will happen later this year:

- Match Game and Dawson's Family Feud will finally go off the air after 14 years.

At this point, I would want Dawson to leave unless he gets a new lease with a better timeslot, otherwise I don't care. I want Match Game to stay, even if it is in the 8am hour. If Match Game leaves, then my grade for GSN would drop from an A- to a solid B.

[wayne3924]

C for me.

Positives: Harvey Feud added, Password returns, new episodes of 25k Pyramid
Negatives: DWTS (still lurking in the background, could return permanently), proposing five new reality shows, way too much Feud shown, Card Sharks gone, Dawson Feud and Match Game getting way beyond stale.

[Lingofan97]

Negatives: DWTS (still lurking in the background, could return permanently), proposing five new reality shows, way too much Feud shown, Card Sharks gone, Dawson Feud and Match Game getting way beyond stale.

That still hasn't happened yet at least (the reality shows). It was proposed, but it's not a major con of the first half. But PRODUCING those shows may be a major con towards the second half of the year.