STAY TUNED: Summer Game Shows To Watch

There are a lot of game show premieres coming down the pike within the next couple weeks, including the ABC game shows returning tonight. This week, ABC reignites its Sunday primetime game show lineup with the brand new reality competition series Funderdome making its network debut, SuperHuman is airing its first episode of the season since the competitive human interest series premiered as a one-off special in January, and Winsanity and Emogenius premiere on GSN for their second and first seasons, respectively. Take a look at the other shows scheduled to air in the next few weeks along with previews of each series in the videos below.

Top 10 2016 Summer Game Show Moments

Since today marks the season premiere of many syndicated game shows in US, including Millionaire spending its 15th syndicated season in Las Vegas, today's article will highlight the top 10 game show moments that have occurred from late May to early September. Some of the highlighted moments include the return of Mastermind in New Zealand, The Price Is Right's primetime specials, Millionaire Hot Seat giving away its million-dollar grand prize for the first time in the show's seven-year existence and Channel 4's Fifteen To One crowning two series champions.

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)

News In A Flash!: Quick Game Show Updates #95

This week's update article will take a look at the some of the latest game show news from the past week in 200 characters or less. Highlights include the the celebrity lineup for Celebrity Family Feud, The $100,000 Pyramid and  a historic, last-minute bonus round win on ITV's Catch Phrase and ABC's To Tell The Truth revival wrapping up its first season this week.

News In A Flash!: Quick Game Show Updates #94

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 highlights include the the celebrity lineup for tonight’s Sunday Fun & Games game shows on ABC, GSN’s Skin Wars crowning its third season champion, The Price Is Right rolling out two holiday specials this week and The Chase giving families a chance to take on the clever Chasers.

BUZZR To Air Week-Long Vintage Crash Course Blocks Beginning Tonight

In honor of the pending ABC premieres of the second season of Celebrity Family Feud and the Match Game revival, BUZZR will be giving its viewers a “vintage crash course” to prepare for the summer game shows. All this week beginning tonight at 8:00pm ET, BUZZR will be airing two-hour blocks of featuring star-studded episodes of Family Feud from the Dawson era and new-to-BUZZR episodes of Match Game 73. Some of the Celebrity Family Feud episodes to be showcased include the TV’s All Time Favorites special with cast members from Petticoat Junction, Leave It To Beaver, The Brady Bunch and Your Hit Parade, and the Walk of Fame special featuring Mark Goodson, Dorothy Lamour, Caesar Romero and Betty White. BUZZR’s Vintage Crash Course two-hour blocks will air from today through Friday, June 25 at 8:00pm-10:00pm ET, with rebroadcasts airing at 11:00pm-1:00am ET, and concludes on Saturday, June 25 with an all-day marathon featuring all the episodes aired during the week lasting from 11:00am to 7:00am ET the following morning.

BUZZR Celebrates One-Year Anniversary With Exclusive Programming

On this day in 2015, FremantleMedia North America launched the much-anticipated retro game show digital subchannel, BUZZR. Now available in over 65 percent of U.S. households since its debut, BUZZR will be celebrating its first anniversary all month long with a special birthday bash. Today, the network will be airing special milestones of classic game shows including I’ve Got A Secret, Dawson’s Family Feud, Press Your Luck, Super Password, To Tell The Truth and What’s My Line. As a special bonus, BUZZR will be airing the 1987 pilot of the Combs version of Family Feud along with the show’s first anniversary episode. That’s only the beginning of BUZZR’s big birthday bash. Take a look below at what the network has in store for its loyal viewers in June. 

Summer 2016 Game Show Tracker

Game show fans will be in for treat this summer with the influx of revivals, renewals, specials and new series flooding the primetime network television airwaves beginning in a couple of weeks. With BuzzerBlog’s announcement of a potential Password revival on ABC, I think this would be a great time to review the game shows as well as some of the new competitive series to look forward to this summer. Much like NBC during the mid- and late-2000s, ABC will be leading the game show herd along with CBS and GSN debuting new shows and specials of their own. Take a look at the list of shows below and make sure to mark your calendars!

Celebrity Match-Ups Revealed For Second Season of “Celebrity Family Feud”

In less than two months from today, Celebrity Family Feud will return to ABC’s primetime lineup for more laughs and gaffes with Steve Harvey returning as host. Feud will be a part of ABC’s “Fun & Games Night” along with The $100,000 Pyramid and Match Game beginning Sunday, June 26 at 8:00pm ET. Inquisitr has unveiled the list of all-star families and teams competing against each other this season for a chance to play Fast Money for $25,000 to the charities of their choice. Take a look at the star-studded match-ups in the list below and stay tuned this summer for fun and games on ABC. 

So Long Summer!: 2015 Summer Game Show Highlights

As the 2015 summer television season is slowly coming to a close within the next few weeks, today’s article will take a retrospective look at the highs, the lows and everything else in between of the game shows that have aired within the past three months. Some of game show highlights include moments from Celebrity Family Feud, BattleBots, 500 Questions, Geeks Who Drink and Race To Escape. 

Celebrity Families Revealed For “Celebrity Family Feud”

Later this month, Family Feud returns to ABC for a special series of star-studded episodes. ABC revealed the celebrity teams who will be playing the Feud for their respective charities throughout the spinoff summer season last Friday. This season’s all-star contestants include Dr. Phil McGraw, Penny and Garry Marshall, Fred Willard, Mario Lopez and Niecy Nash. About six seasons ago in 2008, NBC developed their own version of Celebrity Family Feud, hosted by Al Roker, as a part of the network’s summer block of shows, which included NBC’s revival of American Gladiators. Unlike the NBC version, there’s a very good chance that the upcoming ABC version will last for more than one season because Steve Harvey will be at the helm this time around and the show is placed in a great weekend time slot. Stay tuned for the summer premiere of Celebrity Family Feud Sunday, June 21 at 8:00pm ET on ABC and Make sure you follow Celebrity Family Feud on Instagram @familyfeudabc. The full roster of celebrity teams/families and who they will be competing against is listed below.