"The Line" Review

Set Design- 8

Gameplay- 6

Show Flow- 7

Potential Viewer Ratings- 6

Play-Along Factor- 8

Hosts- 6

Overall- 6.8

'Tis The Season: "Fifteen To One" Special, "The Line" and GSN Marathons To Air This Week

With Christmas right around the corner, various game shows around the globe are getting into the holiday spirit by airing special episodes and marathons throughout the month. Tonight, Channel 4 in the U.K. will be airing a special celebrity episode of Fifteen To One with Adam Hills and GSN will be debuting its latest game show special event, The Line, with hosts Jeff Davis and Candace Bailey. Later this week, GSN will air marathons of The Chase and Idiotest and reruns of The Line. 

Sony E-mail Leak Shows Alex Trebek Upset At Producers & Sony Executives

Amidst all of the personal messages that have been unveiled to public thanks to the Sony e-mail-hack debacle, a series of e-mails had surfaced yesterday showing an irate Alex Trebek expressing his discontent with the producers and Sony executives after he was asked to re-tape a segment of Jeopardy! during Kids Week due to an incident with a contestant named Gabby Fusco. After the Fusco had ended Double Jeopardy! with -$1,400 and was unable to play in the Final Jeopardy! round on Wednesday’s show, a producer wrote via e-mail that “she was visibly upset” and ran backstage crying with her mother. 

"Celebrity Name Game" Expected To Be Renewed For Second Season

After showing a solid household rating average during November sweeps, it looks like Celebrity Name Game might be sticking around for another season. During the sweeps month, The Meredith Vieira Show and Hot Bench, the rookie court show created and produced by Judge Judy Sheindlin, were both renewed for a second season with respective averages of a 1.2 and a 1.7. Debmar Mercury’s Celebrity Name Game and Warner Bros.’ talk show The Real are expected to be renewed after holding steady with a 1.3 and a 1.0 rating. This is a big boost to the U.S. syndicated market after a lackluster performance last year with only one first-year show averaging above a 1.0 (Queen Latifah, 1.1). 

STAY TUNED: “The Chase" Season 3 Finale & “Game Show Flashback” Special Tonight

In addition to The Chase wrapping up its third season tonight, GSN will be debuting another retrospect special called Game Show Flashback to air after a rerun of Idiotest. First, at 8:00pm EST, three more brave contestants will be going head-to-head-to-head against Mark Labbett for the final time this season on the network’s version of The Chase. Tonight’s contestants include a woman training to complete a marathon on every continent. So far this season, Labbett has only lost four Final Chases out of the 13 aired episodes thus far, including Seamus Dever and Dean Cain’s $100,000 win. The Chase has averaged about 639,000 viewers for the latter half of the third season.

Casting Calls Galore!

There are several shows nationally and abroad who are searching for people to compete to win cash and prizes on their respective programs. Domestically, FOX’s revival of Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?, Food Network’s newest competition show The Baking Championship, and a “new smart trivia show” (ABC’s 500 Questions according to BuzzerBlog) are holding casting calls for contestants and additional cast members. Internationally in the U.K., ITV’s Celebrity Squares, which was officially recommissioned for a second series by the network earlier this week, will also be holding a casting call next year. 

STAY TUNED: TPIR's Nationwide Male Model Winner Reveal & Gift Ideas For The Day

This week is going to be another eventful week on The Price Is Right. Beginning tomorrow, the show will be revealing the winner of the first-ever nationwide male model search for the long-running CBS daytime game show and each episode for the next two weeks will be offering a “Gift Idea of the Day” just in time for the holiday season.

GSN's "Baggage: On The Road" To Debut January 7

After making a cross-country tour to Austin, Tampa, Louisiana State University, and University of Connecticut within the past few months, Baggage: On The Road is set to premiere January 7, 2015 at 9:00pm EST on GSN. Jerry Springer will return as the show’s host and 20 half-hour episodes are scheduled to air this season. This will mark the show’s fourth season on the network. The gameplay’s the same with three contestants given a chance to win a date with the night’s featured contestant while the trio reveals three weird, quirky and embarrassing secrets about themselves. The last contestant remaining will have the option to keep the date or not after the featured contestant reveals his/her “baggage” at the end of the show.

BBC Orders Additional Episodes of "Pointless"/"Pointless Celebrities"

If Family Feud had an evil twin, it would be BBC’s Pointless. Speaking of Pointless, the British broadcaster has renewed the civilian and celebrity versions of the game show, produced by Remarkable Television (an Endemol company) to run for another series. A total of 148 episodes have been ordered for the new series with 110 of Pointless and 38 of Pointless Celebrities, both to air on BBC One. This recent order will take the show close to the 1,000-episode mark. The witty and clever team of Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osmond will return with more challenging trivia and interesting facts. Pointless and Pointless Celebrities are currently in their 12th and seventh series, respectively.

Vote For Your Favorite Game Show Moments of 2014!

As we enter into the home stretch of 2014, it’s time again to think about the most iconic and most talked-about game show moments that have occurred during the past 365 days, including any moments that might occur this month. At the end of the month, The Blog Is Right will be listing the top 10 memorable game show moments of the year and, like last year, I will need your help in compiling the list by figuring out which moments should belong on the back end (#8-#10) of the list. Beginning today, you can vote for three game show moments you believe are “Top 10” worthy below. In advance, thanks for voting and stay tuned for the annual unveiling of TBIR’s Best of 2014 Top 10 Countdown list December 31!