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.

News In A Flash!: Quick Game Show Updates #90

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 ratings updates, MTV adapting a UK-based game show (currently airing on ITV2), Millionaire airing a special edition of the show featuring two contestants from the The Bachelor and The Bachelorette and Channel 4 filming a pilot episode to a new game show next week.

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.

Third Season Of “Skin Wars” Premieres April 20 On GSN

In less than a week from today, Skin Wars returns for its third season on GSN. Twelve more talented artists will step up to the ultimate body painting challenge and compete against each other for a grand prize package including $100,000 in cash, an all-expense paid trip for two to the World Bodypainting Festival in Austria and a custom-made stencil line from Bad Ass Stencils with their name etched in the tools. Host Rebecca Romijn and featured judges RuPaul Charles, Craig Tracy and Robin Slonina will be back to determine the fate of the twelve contenders beginning Wednesday, April 20 at 10:00pm ET on GSN. Special guest judges to appear this season include The Real co-host Adrienne Bailon, former Olympian Shawn Johnson, YouTube star Kandee Johnson and television hostess Samantha Harris. Here are the twelve body painters competing this season:

GSN’s Upfront 2016 Recap

GSN held its annual upfront presentation yesterday morning in at the Paley Center for Media in New York City to unveil the network’s approach to its 2016 slate of programming. Last year’s upfront was highlighted with the renewals of The Chase, Skin Wars and Idiotest, the announcement of new arrivals including Chain Reaction, Hellevator and Lie Detectors, and the network’s revamped logo. Among the announcements made this year by GSN were the introduction of Donald Faison as the host of the new audience participation game show Winsanity, the return of Idiotest, Skin Wars and Hellevator, and a roster of pilots and upcoming series slated to air later this year.

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.

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. 

"Skin Wars" Second Season To Premiere June 10 on GSN

Along with FOX's Boom! and ABC's Celebrity Family Feud, the second season of GSN's hit competitive reality show, Skin Wars, is set to make its summer debut June 10 at 9:00pm EDT on GSN. Skin Wars, featuring host Rebecca Romijn and judges RuPaul, Craig Tracy and Robin Slonina Return, has twelve contestants compete in a series of body painting challenges for a grand prize including $100,000 in cash, an all-expense paid trip for two to the World Body Painting Festival in Austria and a nationally-distributed Royal and Langnickel custom brush collection with their name on it. Natalie Fletcher, from Bend, Oregon, was crowned the first season's champion. Who will join her in winner's row at the end of the season? It will be one of these twelve artists listed below and on the Skin Wars page on GSN.com. Stay tuned!

News In A Flash!: Quick Game Show Updates #65

Today's 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 include Jimmy Fallon getting involved with a new NBC comedy game show format that shows some resemblance to Make Me Laugh, one of the most difficult quiz shows on U.K. television returning for a second civilian series and information on how you can watch your favorite GSN game shows in person. All syndication ratings are from the week ending September 21.

News In A Flash!: Quick Game Show Updates #64

Today's article will cover some of the latest game show news headlines from the past few days in 200 characters or less. This afternoon's updates include the ratings for the 13th season premiere week of Millionaire and the syndicated series premiere of Celebrity Name Game, two brothers winning the biggest cash prize in Indian game show history, The Price Is Right remodeling two pricing games and HISTORY's Pawnography returning for a second season. All syndication ratings are from the week ending September 14.

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.

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.

News In A Flash!: Quick Game Show Updates #45

Happy weekend, everyone! I have a lot of updates in store for you this evening. Tonight's article will be highlighting some of the latest game show news and reviewing some news headlines already featured on The Blog Is Right Facebook page this week in 200 characters or less from a plethora of Hollywood Game Night . All ratings for syndicated game shows are from the week ending January 26.