GSN Wraps Up 2015 With Highest Primetime Viewership & Double-Digit Key Demo Growth

For the fourth straight year, GSN has broken its own ratings record with last year marking its most-watched year in network history in primetime and total day among total viewers and the key demos including Adults 18-49, Women 18-49, Adults 25-54 and Women 25-54. To be more specific with a few of the statistics, GSN’s 2015 total day ratings among total viewers grew 19%, 35% in Women 18-49, 22% in Persons 25-54 and 18% in Women 25-54. Other highlights include delivering its most watched fourth quarter ever in total day and cable primetime among total viewers and key demos and it ranked among the top ten fastest growing ad-supported cable entertainment networks in the fourth quarter in cable primetime among Persons 18-49 and Persons 25-54.

News In A Flash!: Quick Game Show Updates #73

This week's quick update article will cover some of the latest game show news headlines from the past few days in 200 characters or less including updates featured on the TBIR Facebook page. News updates include how ITV2's newest physically challenging game show, Almost Impossible Gameshow, performed in its first night out, GSN's record-breaking third quarter performance in nearly all of its demographic ratings, Canada's Smartest Person returning for another season and a few GSN ratings updates.

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. 

"Chain Reaction" (2015 GSN Revival) Review

Set Design- 8

Gameplay- 7

Show Flow- 9

Potential Viewer Ratings- 7

Play-Along Factor- 10

Host- 7

Overall Rating- 8.0

The Scuttlebutt On GSN Part 7: "The Chase" & "Chain Reaction" Debuts Tonight, "Steampunk'd" Premieres in August

Today’s GSN update will review the summer premieres of The Chase and Chain Reaction, both which are set to debut today at 8:00pm and 9:00pm ET, along with the network’s newest competition series, Steampunk’d. The Chase, hosted by Brooke Burns, returns with Mark “The Beast” Labbett attempting to stop teams of three smart contestants from potentially winning hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash by knocking them out of the game in a series of trivia rounds. After you have tuned into The Chase, check out the debut of the second GSN revival of Chain Reaction with Mike Catherwood at the helm this time around. This version plays similarly to the first GSN version with the exceptions of two pairs of teams competing rather than two gender-opposed trios, the elimination of the Speed Chains and a new $5,000 end game. I will post a full review of the new Chain Reaction series later this week.

Rules For GSN’s “Chain Reaction” Revival

Earlier this month, Hollywood Junket attended a taping of GSN’s Chain Reaction revival hosted by radio personality Mike Catherwood (a.k.a “Psycho Mike). Here’s how the new edition of Chain Reaction works: two teams comprised of two teammates compete to fill in a series of seven-word chains in three rounds. In the first round, two chains are played with each correct answer worth $100 in the first and $200 in the second. In the second round, another chain is played for higher stakes. The third round is deemed the betting round where teams wager between $100-$500 per attempt to fill in the chain. The team with the most money at the end of the round plays the end game where one final chain must be completed in 45 seconds for $5,000.

GSN Revives “Chain Reaction”

Well, here’s some interesting game show news for today: GSN is planning to revive its version of Chain Reaction. Forty episodes have been scheduled to air for the first season of the 2015 revival later this year. Sony Pictures Television will produced the new series of episodes and Vincent Rubino (The Newlywed Game, Million Dollar Password) will be the show’s executive producer. Chain Reaction is a word-association game show that has two teams racing to complete a series of word chains where each word is related to the word above and/or beneath it for thousands of dollars in cash. Since the show’s premiere on NBC in 1980 with host Bill Cullen, Chain Reaction has been revived twice in 1986 (aired on USA Network/Global Network in Canada) and in 2006 by GSN.