September 3rd schedule changes with The Pyramid

[Lingofan97]

If anything, Beat the Chefs seems to be GSN's least favorite. I think they know it's the toughest sell to their audience. Not a quizzer, not a word game.

That's true, but on the other thread if American Bible Challenge's format is a tough as it seems, Beat the Chefs may be a winner out of the two shows on Thursday night

[matchgame74fan]

Nothing beats my enthusiasm and interest for The Pyramid, but honestly I'm actually looking more forward to Beat the Chefs compared to American Bible Challenge.

[Lingofan97]

I read a Buzzerblog tweet saying that GSN has there future with hour-long primetime game shows rather than the half-hour originals like The Pyramid.

Pfffff. Look at Lingo, The Newlywed Game, Baggage, Catch 21 and others since the 2000's. GSN has seen much success with them and little success with hour-long weeklies.

Nothing beats my enthusiasm and interest for The Pyramid, but honestly I'm actually looking more forward to Beat the Chefs compared to American Bible Challenge.

Beat the Chefs will make more sense to me because I don't need to know answers to a question like "What fourteen-letter word is spelled out by Moses on page 617 of the Bible?"

[phimat37]

Beat the Chefs will make more sense to me because I don't need to know answers to a question like "What fourteen-letter word is spelled out by Moses on page 617 of the Bible?"

I see your point. I have a feeling Bible might bomb after it's premiere maybe, because some people (like me) don't really know the bible. In a way, it's a shame.

[SpeedAndStrategy]

I do agree that, based on all I've heard, Chefs stands a better chance of appealing to average GSN viewers (and average TV viewers in general). If Bible is really going to be as repellent to the average GSN viewer as people are suggesting (and I wouldn't doubt it), then I wonder if Chefs might suffer simply by having it as a lead-in. I'm not sure how compatible the two shows' audiences are. I doubt the schedule will change now, but maybe it would be a better idea to have them on separate nights? Or at least to put an hour of, say, Harvey Feud between them?

[Lingofan97]

I see your point. I have a feeling Bible might bomb after it's premiere maybe, because some people (like me) don't really know the bible. In a way, it's a shame.

With the promotion and publucity its had, if 'Bible' gets a 400K viewership average from the second episode and the rest through the Fall, that will look like a bomb compared to the premiere. A lot of people are going to be tuning into to this Thursday night, but who knows if they will stay with the show

I do agree that, based on all I've heard, Chefs stands a better chance of appealing to average GSN viewers (and average TV viewers in general). If Bible is really going to be as repellent to the average GSN viewer as people are suggesting (and I wouldn't doubt it), then I wonder if Chefs might suffer simply by having it as a lead-in. I'm not sure how compatible the two shows' audiences are. I doubt the schedule will change now, but maybe it would be a better idea to have them on separate nights? Or at least to put an hour of, say, Harvey Feud between them?

Cooking shows are prerty hot right now, if they're on FOX or Food Network. So hopefully viewers will tune into this one.

And at this point the schedule isn't going to change. Thursday night is going to be a very good night for these two shows, considering its a good time slot for these two new originals, and there is not too much competition from the major networks

[pzimm7778]

Decided to post this here, I don't know why. Its not even really important. Since there is no Baseball Tonight on at noon, and the rerun of NCIS on USA is the first episode which I have seen many times I defaulted to watching $25K Pyramid on GSN. I thought it was rather ironic it left the 25K Pyramid for the first commercial, followed by a commercial for the new Pyramid show, and that was immediately followed by a Hershey Caramel Kiss commercial and the caramel blocks were in the shape of....you guessed it, a Pyramid.

Again, very unimportant post.

[phimat37]

Beat The Chefs didn't get as big of promotion as Bible did though.

[Lingofan97]

Beat The Chefs didn't get as big of promotion as Bible did though.

American Bible Challenge was the first show we heard of, even dating back to May 2011. American Bible Challenge was also the first show to get advertising space on GSN starting June 7th (Dawson tribute) during the Dawson Feud marathon, while the first Beat the Chefs ad surfaced just a little more than two weeks ago

[CarShark]

I don't get why GSN had to have one new show lead into another. Why not have one on Tuesday and another on Thursday?

[Lingofan97]

I don't get why GSN had to have one new show lead into another. Why not have one on Tuesday and another on Thursday?

Tuesday we have Minute to Win It, a night that doesn't struggle. On Thursday, DOND bombed, then Catch 21 did OK, and 5th Grader hasn't lived up to its expectations. So besides Fridays, Thursday was a hurting night, plus a pretty good night on TV to air a new show

[wayne3924]

Having just seen the Making Of for Bible Challenge...it didn't answer much, if anything. They barely mention the structure of the show. Instead, they kept repetitively saying "We want it to be fun" or some variant of that. It did nothing to assuage my fears that this show is doomed before it starts.

[Lingofan97]

Having just seen the Making Of for Bible Challenge...it didn't answer much, if anything. They barely mention the structure of the show. Instead, they kept repetitively saying "We want it to be fun" or some variant of that. It did nothing to assuage my fears that this show is doomed before it starts.

And be aware, they will be saying "We really want it to be fun" 50 more times because the show repeats three times until Thursday.

[DialgaChampion]

And be aware, they will be saying "We really want it to be fun" 50 more times because the show repeats three times until Thursday.

It would have made so much more sense if this special aired tonight in primetime sometime during the Karn/O'Hurley block. It would get a lot more attention in primetime

Wow. Repeats Tuesday at 12:30 pm, Wednesday at 1:30 am and Thursday at 4:30 pm. Amazing.

[Lingofan97]

Wow. Repeats Tuesday at 12:30 pm, Wednesday at 1:30 am and Thursday at 4:30 pm. Amazing.

It would have been a lot easier just to air it in primetime, Monday night, taking out an episode of Family Feud (god forbid)