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'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.

Thanksgiving Holiday Watch List (Nov. 26-28): "The Price Is Right", "Let’s Make A Deal", "Millionaire" and GSN Marathons

On Thanksgiving Eve (Wednesday, November 26) during CBS daytime, The Price Is Right and Let’s Make A Deal will be celebrating the holiday with special Thanksgiving-themed episodes. On Let’s Make A Deal, contestants will be dressed as turkeys, pilgrims and pumpkins and will play themed games including a 3-Turkey Deal for big bucks and games involving a Turkey hotline and a giant pumpkin that has apparently caught the eye of the "hungry" cast. As a special bonus, the studio audience will receive a family heirloom cookbook project featuring tools and directions on how to create your own cookbook filled with family recipes. Check your local listings for air times.

GSN To Develop Horror-Themed Game Show With "Paranormal Activity" Producer

GSN has been on a roll lately by seeing success within its original programming department with shows like It Takes A Church, Idiotest, Skin Wars and The American Bible Challenge all returning next year. The network plans to continue its winning streak with the creation of Hellevator. Hellevator will be produced by Matador and Blumhouse Productions (the latter most famous for creating the Paranormal Activity movie franchise) in association with Lionsgate Television. Jay Peterson and Todd Lubin will serve as the show's executive producers. The new series has contestants entering a warehouse through a mysterious elevator where they will compete in a series of scary and suspenseful challenges and the survivors who make it out will be crowned winners.

Afternoon News Updates For Tuesday, November 18

Good afternoon, game show fans! Today's brief batch of updates include the current state of the 2014 Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions, Ten Network's Family Feud building upon the success of its show by unveiling a new home game, Million Dollar Minute making a "game-changing" adjustment to its format and GSN airing a retrospect honoring classic game shows.

November Sweeps Highlights For The Week of November 10-14

Millionaire introduced this year’s November sweeps month with the show’s first-ever "Whiz Kids" week. The second week of sweeps month is going to be quite eventful. Special, DVR-worthy episodes include with Ken Jennings attempting to reclaim the top spot among the list of biggest-winning American game show contestants on Millionaire, The Price Is Right airing its third "Big Money Week", Let’s Make A Deal debuting its first-ever all-musical special, former Jeopardy! champions set to play the quarterfinal rounds in this year’s Tournament of Champions and the third season of GSN’s The Chase premiering with its first celebrity episode. There’s a lot to cover, so let’s get into it.

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. 

Sunday Highlights: Shows To Watch Tonight (October 26th)

Believe it or not, today is actually a pretty eventful day for game shows with U.S viewers looking forward to another installment GSN’s Time Capsule later tonight, and a new episode of Family Game Night: Celebrity Edition in its new time slot on Discovery Family (formerly The Hub Network). Internationally, Canadian viewers will look forward to a new episode of CBC’s Canada’s Smartest Person and U.K. viewers will have a chance to enjoy ITV brand new primetime game show, Keep It In The Family.

News In A Flash!: Quick Game Show Updates #67

Happy Monday, everyone! Today's update will review some of the major news headlines in the game show universe from the past week in 200 characters or less including updates featured on the TBIR Facebook page. Headlining updates include Bradley Walsh hosting a new family game show, GSN's Mind Of A Man possibly returning in syndication next year, and a million-dollar winner unfortunately proving that money is not always the key to happiness. All syndication ratings are from the week ending October 5.

News In A Flash!: Quick Game Show Updates #66

Good evening, everyone! This article will cover some of the latest game show news headlines from the past week in 200 characters or less including updates featured on the TBIR Facebook page. Today’s updates including how GSN's hour-long block of rare classic game shows performed ratings wise, details concerning the first celebrity edition of the U.S. version of The Chase and a Dutch network airing a new game show pitting brainy children versus brainy adults. All syndication ratings are from the week ending September 28.

Game Shows To Watch For The Week of September 21st

Good morning, game show fans! As we enter into the final week of Fall game show premieres, today’s article will highlight first-time and returning game shows making their debut this week as well as a GSN reality show wrapping its first season on Wednesday. The highlighted game shows include Celebrity Name Game, Crackle’s Sports Jeopardy!, CBS’s The Price Is Right and Let’s Make A Deal, the return of ITV2’s Release The Hounds and GSN's Skin Wars.

News In A Flash!: Quick Game Show Updates #63

Today's article will cover some of the latest game show news headlines from the past few days in 200 characters or less (except for one). This morning's updates include another network acquiring Family Feud reruns, GSN reviving one of its most successful original relationship/dating game shows and syndication ratings. All syndication ratings are from the week ending September 7.

News In A Flash!: Quick Game Show Updates #61

I hope everyone had a relaxing Labor Day yesterday. This evening's article will cover some of the latest game show news headlines from the past few days in 200 characters or less. Tonight's updates include the eighth civilian series premiere of The Chase on ITV, a new "man vs. machine" game show and the first nine celebrity panelists to appear on the third edition of Celebrity Squares.

GSN's "The Chase" Searching For Season Four Contestants

GSN, in partnership with ITV Studios, will be holding casting calls for potential contestants to compete on the upcoming fourth season of The Chase. Applicants may apply on ChaseCasting.com by filling out a registration form or by submitting a video if you are unable to attend one of the auditions. Casting calls will be held in major cities across the country from the West Coast in Los Angeles to the East Coast in Washington D.C. The auditions will be held in the following cities on the following dates:

Evening News Updates For August 21, 2014

This evening's article will cover two of the bigger game show news headlines that caught my eye earlier today including the following updates:
- “The Chase” and “It Takes A Church” Renewed For 2015

- “Sports Jeopardy!” To Air September 24 On Crackle

Check it out!

"Idiotest" Review

Set Design- 7

Gameplay- 8

Show Flow- 7

Potential Viewer Ratings- 9

Play-Along Factor- 10

Host- 8

Overall Rating- 8.1

News In A Flash!: Quick Game Show Updates #60

Today’s article will cover some of the latest game show news headlines and updates in 200 characters or less along with some that may have been already covered on The Blog Is Right Facebook page from the ratings update on Idiotest’s performance on its first night on GSN to new international game shows in the making. All syndication ratings are from the week ending August 3.

Evening News Updates For August 7, 2014 (300th Article!)

Good evening, game show fans! Tonight's article will cover some of big game show news updates from the past 24 hours of days including the impressive ratings Skin Wars pulled on its first night, Let's Ask America making an early debut on GSN in less than two weeks and the unveiling of the roster of special guest stars due to appear on Celebrity Name Game. 

News In A Flash!: Quick Game Show Updates #59

Today’s article will cover some of the latest game show news headlines and updates in 200 characters or less along with some that may have been already covered on The Blog Is Right Facebook page from GSN's newest reality competition show premiering tonight to the Chaser offering the first "Super Offer" in history of The Chase. All syndication ratings are from the week ending July 27.

Evening News For July 15, 2014

Good evening, ladies and gents! While you're tuning in to the new episode of The Chase on GSN, take a look at some of latest game show news headlines including the following updates:

- "Let's Ask America" Season Three Casting Call

- GSN's "The Line" Prepares For Week-Long Taping In Nashville

- Frank Skinner & Sue Perkins Pilot "Trust Me, I'm A Game Show Host"

- Eamonn Homles & Ruth Langsford Host ITV's "Gift List"