Primetime Watch For Sunday, July 31, 2016

Since tonight is such a HUGE night for revived game shows and rare rebroadcasts, such as the Michael Larson episodes of Press Your Luck and the Tournament of Champions finale/series finale of Family Double Dare resurfacing on television, I have decided to list them all within this article rather than normally posting them on TBIR's Facebook page. Listed below are is tonight's "Primetime Watch" schedule along with detailed information about each show. All times are listed in Eastern Daylight Time. Stay tuned!

8:00pm: NEW! Celebrity Family Feud on ABC
                 Press Your Luck on BUZZR (Michael Larson)
                 Hollywood Game Night on NBC
8:30pm: Press Your Luck w/ Michael Larson on BUZZR (Michael Larson)
9:00pm: NEW! The $100,000 Pyramid on ABC
                 American Ninja Warrior on NBC
                 Press Your Luck on BUZZR
9:30pm: Press Your Luck on BUZZR
10:00pm: NEW! Match Game on ABC
                   Press Your Luck on BUZZR
10:30pm: Press Your Luck on BUZZR
11:00pm: Family Double Dare on The Splat (Teennick)
11:30pm: Family Double Dare on The Splat
12:00am: Family Double Dare on The Splat (Tournament of Champions Finale)

BUZZR To Air Michael Larson Episodes of “Press Your Luck” July 31 and August 6

Game show fans will be in for a special treat this weekend as the network will be airing the rarely rerun episodes of Michael Larson on Press Your Luck. BUZZR will be airing the iconic episodes that left everyone watching in a shock and awe on Sunday July 31 at 8:00pm and 11:00pm ET. To quote most As-seen-on-TV commercials, “but wait – there’s more!” BUZZR will also be airing episodes featuring other contestants racking up massive one-day totals from 9:00pm-11:00pm and 12:00am-2:00am ET. The three-hour event will re-air on Saturday August 6 beginning at 8:00pm and 11:00pm  ET and will include BUZZR Bonus Bites of trivia to provide additional insight into Larson’s incredible moment. 

VH1 and Ice Cube Revive “Hip Hop Squares”

VH1 and Ice Cube’s production company, Cube Vision, are partnering to bring Hip Hop Squares back to cable television. According The Hollywood Reporter from its sources, the network has ordered at least 20 episodes and the series is scheduled to resume this fall. Much like the original version, Hip Hop Squares has two contestants play a series of tic-tac-toe games  by earning squares based on whether they can correctly predict if the celebrities are giving right or wrong answers to trivia questions. The latest edition of the classic game show, originally developed by Merrill Heatter and Bob Quigley, first aired on MTV2 in 2012 with radio DJ Peter Rosenburg hosting the series for two seasons. Ice Cube will executive produce the show with Jesse Collins Entertainment, Jeff Kwatinetz’s The Firm and CBS Television Distribution.

Spike Orders Full Season of “Caraoke Showdown”

Originally ordered as a one-off special, Spike announced on Tuesday that the network has given a full 10-episode season order to the new game show. Scheduled to debut later this year, Caraoke Showdown will be hosted and executive produced by singer/actor/comedian Craig Robinson. The series, described as a “new, original, half-hour game show that is like Cash Cab meets karaoke”, Robinson engages unsuspecting passengers in a music quiz in which they must either sing their favorite songs, finish song lyrics or act out the songs for cold hard cash. Howie Mandel will also serve as an executive producer along with Alice Dickens-Koblin, Peter Herschko and Brian Veskosky. The show’s production company is Core Media Group.

Garcelle Beauvais Named Host of GSN’s “Window Warriors”

Earlier this week, GSN’s upcoming competitive reality series Window Warriors had signed actress and one of the hosts of Hollywood Today Live Garcelle Beauvais to host the new show. Produced by Michael Levitt Productions, the same team who developed Skin Wars, Window Warriors gives a group of window designers a chance to showcase their visual merchandising skills for a chance to win the show’s grand prize including $100,000, being featured in a retail design magazine, a one-year contract to design displays for a mall developer and a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to design a holiday display at a major department store. Six episodes have been ordered for the show’s first season and Window Warriors is now filming episodes through August 12. Stay tuned for the series premiere later this year.

“Mastermind New Zealand” To Air Grand Final Sunday, July 24

As BBC Two’s Mastermind started its 45th series the weekend before last with slight graphics updates and the newly added 10-second countdown music cue to add more tension (much to the chagrin of a few viewers), Mastermind New Zealand will be airing its first Grand Final since 1991 next Sunday at 7:45pm on TVNZ’s TV One. Here are the four finalists who will be furiously fighting to win the iconic black chair and championship next weekend: 

ITV To Debut New Quiz Show “Alphabetical” In August

It’s summertime and you know what that means – summer fillers. ITV has ordered 10 one-hour episodes of its newest quizzer, Alphabetical. Hosted by former Countdown host and current Soccer Saturday presenter Jeff Stelling, the fast-paced general knowledge game show has three contestants compete against the returning champion in four rounds revolving around the alphabet in an attempt to earn as much time as possible to carryover into the end game. In the final, the remaining front game contestant and the champion must navigate their way through the entire alphabet by answering questions based on each letter. Both contestants will have 100 seconds – plus the time they have earned from the front game – to successfully complete the alphabet and win the day’s cash jackpot. If both contestants fail, the jackpot rolls to the next show. Alphabetical, set to premiere next month, is based on the ITV Studios format The Alphabet Game featuring the finale from the Spanish version of the series, Pasapalabra. The show was redeveloped by Adam Adler, the creator of The Cube and Managing Producer of Gameface Productions, and will be produced by Andrew O’Connor and Paul Sandler along with Adler .

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Spike Orders “That Awkward Game Show” To Air This Fall

According to network’s announcement released today, Spike is set to jump back into the game show business with its 11-episode first season order of That Awkward Game Show. The one-hour series will be hosted by comedian and former host of MTV’s Money From Strangers and MTV2’s NumbNuts Jeff Dye. Scheduled to air this fall, the show will have three teams comprised of a parent and an adult child compete against each other to match which embarrassing fact is associated with their family member. The team who answers the most questions correctly wins a cash prize. Arthur Smith, Kent Weed, Christmas Rini and Peter Herschko of A. Smith & Co. Productions will serve as executive producers for That Awkward Game Show. 

Nickelodeon's The Splat Celebrates 30th Anniversary of “Double Dare”

TeenNick’s late night throwback programming block, The Splat, is celebrating the pearl anniversary of Nickelodeon’s first and longest-running game show by hosting a live edition at San Diego Comic-Con on July 22 and airing reruns of various incarnations of Double Dare on the network beginning July 25. Double Dare will be officially turning 30 on October 6. At Comic-Con, Marc Summers returns to host the live nighttime event. Lucky fans will be able to watch teams compete in trivia and physical stunt rounds in hopes of advancing to the famous Obstacle Course to take on classic challenges including Down The Hatch”, “The Wringer” and the seemingly impossible “Pick It”. The exhibition will be streamed live on The Splat’s Facebook page beginning at 9:30pm PT (12:30am ET). The Double Dare event is part of Nickelodeon’s activities at Comic-Con, which will also include a "25-year retrospective of Nickelodeon animation" panel, a "women in animation" panel and a "Back to the ‘90s reunion" panel. 

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"Match Game" (2016 ABC Revival) Review

Set Design- 10

Gameplay- 10

Show Flow- 9 

Potential Viewer Ratings- 9

Play-Along Factor- 10

Host- 7

Overall Rating- 9.1