News In A Flash!: Quick Game Show Updates #89

This week's quick update article will take a look at the some of the latest game show news from the past week in 200 characters or less. This week's news highlights include an NPR interview featuring Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek, a "groovy" new episode of Idiotest, BuzzFeed checking out the set of the upgraded temple in Legends of The Hidden Temple and an international network adapting its own version of the Who's Still Standing? game show format.

“Idiotest” Third Season Premieres April 12 With Celebrity Special

In about a month on April 12 at 10:00pm, GSN’s popular, puzzling game show Idiotest returns for its third season on the network. The season debuts with a special celebrity episode featuring the teams of Dr. Drew Pinsky and Mike Catherwood of HLN’s Loveliness and YouTube stars GloZell and Gaby Dunn playing for up to $10,000 for their respective charities Hillside Home For Children, the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund, First Christian Church of North Hollywood and the L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center. This episode, filled with plenty of hilarity and antics, is one that you will want to stay tuned for, especially if you are fans of either or all of the featured stars.

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.

GSN Renews "Idiotest" For Second Season

Yesterday, GSN announced its second season renewal of their latest new original series, Idiotest. This marks the third first-year show the network has renewed in 2014 in addition to It Takes A Church and Skin Wars. Sixty-five episodes have been ordered for the upcoming season and comedian Ben Gleib will return as the show’s host and producer. Although I personally haven’t been keeping up with the ratings for the show, according to Deadline, the series is coming off of three straight weeks of ratings increases and its first season nearly doubled its time period average (+82%) among women 18-49 compared to last year.