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.

GSN 2017 Upfront Recap

For this year’s upfront presentation, the network decided to streamline the event by forgoing the live annual breakfast upfront session, which featured Rebecca Romijn, RuPaul and Donald Faison last year, and simply honed its focus on discussing statistics that expand beyond gender and age and demographics. Some of the data metrics John Zaccario, executive VP of advertising sales and CMO, paid particular attention to include how GSN has fared against other ad-supported cable channels in the last five years in length of tune and frequency of tune (how long audiences watch the network in one sitting and how often viewers watch). GSN is ranked among the top 10 cable entertainment networks in the A25-54 demo for average spin per buyer in department stores, fast food, mass merchandiser, physical retail stores and wireless. Listed below are a couple more noteworthy statistical highlights concerning the network’s performance. 

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

News In A Flash!: Quick Game Show Updates #96

It's time once again to quickly peruse through of some of the latest headlines in the world US and international game shows. 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 fall season premieres of prominent CBS Daytime game shows, Match Game's first season finale, Millionaire returning to India after a two-year hiatus, the dates for Jeopardy's online audition tests and some of the latest game show ratings.

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.

"Winsanity" Review

Set Design- 6

Gameplay- 7

Show Flow- 8

Potential Viewer Ratings- 7

Play-Along Factor- 10

Host- 7

Overall Rating- 7.5

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.

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!

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.

News In A Flash!: Quick Game Show Updates #82

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 a few updates featured on the TBIR Facebook page. News updates include The Price Is Right bringing back its annual Socially Awesome Week, a local Philadelphia affiliate news station holding a contest with the winners receiving tickets to attend a taping of Wheel of Fortune, Logo greenlighting a new game show starring Skin Wars judge RuPaul and Jeopardy's upcoming adult online audition test dates.

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.

GSN Orders 40 Episodes of “Winsanity”

It looks like GSN is finally getting the ball rolling on one of its newest original game shows, Winsanity, after introducing the format during the network’s 2015 Upfront presentation in March. On Wednesday, GSN announced it has ordered 40 half-hour episodes of Winsanity, which will be hosted by former Scrubs star Donald Faison. The series, produced by Electus in which contestants attempt to rank statistical facts in numerical order, is set to start production early next year.