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.

Quick Game Show Reminders For January 2017

There are quite a lot of game shows coming down the pike at the top of 2017 including season premieres, series debuts and continuing primetime shows. Listed below are a few game shows to set your DVRs for the next few weeks. All times below are in Eastern Standard Time.

Series Premieres
– The Wall: January 2-3 at 10:00pm & 8:00pm on NBC
– Big Fan: January 9 at 10:00pm & 10:30pm on ABC
– Caraoke Showdown: January 12 at 10:30pm on Spike
Divided: January 19 at 9:00pm & 9:30pm on GSN

Season Premieres
– To Tell The Truth (Season 2): January 1 at 9:00pm on ABC
– Match Game (Season 2): January 4 at 10:00pm on ABC
– Idiotest (Season 4): January 19 at 10:00pm & 10:30pm on GSN

Seasons Currently Airing
– Billy On The Street (Season 5 Continued): January 3 at 10:30pm on TruTV
– Winsanity (Season 1 Continued): January 4 at 1:00am & 1:30am on GSN
– That Awkward Game Show (Season 1 Continued): January 12 at 11:00pm on Spike

BUZZR To Air “Salute To Politics” Marathon November 6 and 8

As we are approaching the end of a seemingly long and exhausting presidential election year, BUZZR will be airing a special “Salute To Politics” marathon featuring game shows with politically-themed rounds and questions. The marathon, which airs Sunday, November 6 starting at noon ET and Election Day Tuesday starting at 10:00am ET, includes episodes of Match Game, Family Feud, Press Your Luck, To Tell The Truth, What’s My Line?, I’ve Got A Secret and Super Password. One of the more interesting episodes you will want to tune into is a 1962 episode of To Tell The Truth in which the clever and inquisitive panelists attempt to guess which of the three challengers were the real Gerald Behn, special agent in charge of guarding Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy. 

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.

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.

BUZZR Celebrates 75 Years Of Game Shows With 24-Hour Marathon

Beginning early tomorrow morning, BUZZR will be airing a special 24-hour marathon of What’s My Line, I’ve Got A Secret and To Tell The Truth from the 1950s and 1960s. The episodes of all three shows will be aired in chronological order starting at 6:00am ET. This marathon is part of the network's yearlong celebration of the 75th anniversary of television game shows. The first television game show, Truth or Consequences, debuted as a one-time experiment on New York’s WNBT station on July 1, 1941. Truth or Consequences would not return or air regularly on television until 1950. Since then, game shows have become a staple in our society today and viewers have enjoyed hundreds of thousands of hours of watching their favorite hosts take the helm on their respective series, answering questions or solving puzzles from the comfort of their own home and cheering on contestants who are vying for life-changing sums in cash and prizes. Stay tuned for the special marathon tomorrow morning on BUZZR!

"To Tell The Truth" (2016 ABC Revival) Review

Set Design- 7

Gameplay- 5

Show Flow- 9 

Potential Viewer Ratings- 9

Play-Along Factor- 10

Host- 8

Overall Rating- 8.0

News In A Flash!: Quick Game Show Updates #93

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 GSN Games unveiling a new head-to-head gambling gaming app, BUZZR debuting the previously unaired To Tell The Truth pilot tonight, Winsanity's premiere ratings, Idiotest airing an all-nude (no, that is not a typo) episode this week and latest in US, UK and Canadian game show casting calls.

News In A Flash!: Quick Game Show Updates #92

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 500 Questions second season finale, two new series coming to GSN within the next two weeks, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire hold road auditions in four states this month and The Price Is Right airing a Father's Day special later this month.

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!

News In A Flash!: Quick Game Show Updates #77

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 game show ratings, an iconic ITV game show ending its run, Let's Make A Deal bringing back the Super Deal this week, The Game of Life creator's widow filing a law suit against Hasbro and others and Anthony Anderson discussing To Tell The Truth with Jimmy Kimmel.

NeNe Leakes & Betty White To Star As Panelists on ABC's “To Tell The Truth”

ABC announced Wednesday that former Real Housewives of Atlanta star NeNe Leakes and veteran game show panelist/host Betty White will star as resident panelists on the network’s revival of To Tell The Truth. Six episodes of the revived series have been ordered by the network from FremantleMedia North America and will be hosted by Anthony Anderson. Also joining the core cast are Anderson’s lively mother, Doris, as the official scorekeeper and Cheche and his Band of Liars, the house band who will close every episode with a “show stopping performance”. Although the premiere date has not been announced yet, the show will be taping July 13-15 in Los Angeles, CA. Barry Poznick, Toby Gorman, Thom Beers, Jeff Gaspin, George Moll and Anthony Anderson will serve as the show’s executive producers. 

FremantleMedia North America To Launch Buzzr TV On FOX O&O Stations

If you are a die-hard game show fan, you might want to check this out: FremantleMedia North America is planning to launch a digital multicast channel solely devoted to classic game shows called Buzzr TV. FOX owned-and-operated stations have picked up the Buzzr TV to air in 17 top markets beginning this summer. The deal was brokered for FremantleMedia by Debmar-Mercury distribution. Some of the vintage shows expected to air on the new channel could include Goodson-Todman classics like Match Game, What’s My Line?, To Tell The Truth and Password. Debmar-Mercury will shop the channel to other stations during the National Association of Television Program Executives confab, which runs through Thursday in Miami Beach. This seems like the perfect opportunity for FremantleMedia to enter into the multicast market, especially with the success Wiegel Broadcasting and Tribune Broadcasting have had with MeTV and Antenna TV.

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.

Afternoon News Updates For July 30, 2014

Good afternoon, game show fans! This afternoon's article will briefly highlight some of headlining game show news from the past 24 hours of days including Let's Ask America coming to GSN with a new host, a To Tell The Truth revival in the works and the Irish, big-money game show, The Lie, returning for another series on TV3.