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Welcome to 'All The Classics!', fanlisting for the television network, Game Show Network. It is such a pleasure to bring this awesome fanlisting to you. |
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About the network... The Game Show Network (now known as GSN - The Network for Games) is an American cable television and direct broadcast satellite channel dedicated to game shows, reality shows, and interactive television games. The channel was launched on December 1, 1994. GSN is received in about 60 million homes, and is jointly-owned by Liberty Media and Sony Pictures Entertainment. The network licenses the Mark Goodson-Bill Todman game show library, which includes titles such as Match Game, Family Feud, Card Sharks and Blockbusters, along with various versions of Password. GSN has also featured Goodson-Todman game and panel shows from the 1950s and 1960s, such as What's My Line?, I've Got a Secret, To Tell the Truth, Beat the Clock, and other lesser-known black-and-white classics. (Later, color versions of these shows have also aired.) The black-and-white shows made up much of the channel's weeknight lineup at the channel's launch, but moved solely to Sunday nights in the late '90s and finally to overnights. The black-and-white shows have now been cut back to one hour a week on early Monday morning at 3:00 AM Eastern. GSN, in addition to its Goodson-Todman library, features other shows such as Jeopardy!, Press Your Luck, The Newlywed Game, Love Connection and the Dick Clark-hosted versions of Pyramid (except $50,000 Pyramid), along with more recent fare like Greed, Weakest Link, Dog Eat Dog, the 2000 version of Twenty One, and the Tom Bergeron-hosted version of Hollywood Squares. In October, 2003 GSN acquired the rerun rights to Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, and added more episodes (including the Super Millionaire spin-off) in the spring of 2005. Among the most well-known classic game shows previously aired on the network are Wheel of Fortune, The Joker's Wild, Tic Tac Dough, Tattletales, the original version of The Hollywood Squares, The Gong Show, The Dating Game, Let's Make a Deal and The Price Is Right. GSN has also produced several original series. In the channel's early days, club a.m. was a three-hour block consisting of five classic game shows, surrounded by thirty minutes' worth of interstitial trivia, interviews with game show producers, personalities, contestants and fans, and interactive call-in games, all hosted by Laura Chambers and Steve Day. Prime Games was a similarly formatted show aired weeknights and hosted by Peter Tomarken. Wide World of Games was a Saturday night block of four shows built around a common theme. After a few years, these shows were replaced by Game TV, a half-hour interview show hosted by Nancy Sullivan and Dave Nemeth; Game World, which showed highlights of current game shows from around the world; and standalone 30-minute call-in games like Super Decades and Trivia Track. Later, the channel attempted a Gong Show remake called Extreme Gong, hosted by George Gray, in which the viewers could phone in their votes as to whether to 'gong' acts off the air; and Throut and Neck, where viewers controlled video game characters with their phones. The network also programmed Burt Luddin's Love Buffet, a combination of scripted scenes and a "game show within the show." All these efforts have long since departed from the network's schedule. Traditional game show offerings since 2000 have included All New 3's a Crowd, Whammy! The All-New Press Your Luck, Friend or Foe? (a game based around the Prisoner's Dilemma), Russian Roulette, WinTuition, Cram, and National Lampoon's Funny Money. The most successful GSN original game show has been Lingo, a Chuck Woolery-hosted remake of an '80s Canadian format in which teams guess five-letter words in a combination of Mastermind and bingo. The network has produced five seasons, and contestant searches are going on for a sixth in 2007. Other game show originals debuting in 2006 included PlayMania, a remake of I've Got a Secret, That's the Question, Starface, and a remake of Chain Reaction, which is looking for contestants for its second season in 2007. |
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