But where's '84? And November-December '83? And...

It may be bustling at the malls, but there's not much game show news on Black Friday. So I stopped by Game Show Paradise for the first time in a while.

I figured there might be some comments on GSN's oldie marathons over the Thanksgiving weekend. Sure enough, the GSN schedule thread chatted about the skeins. Naturally, there were only comments about the old shows. If you were looking for any posts about the America Says marathon on Game Show Paradise, you're clueless about the board.

25K Pyramid got a ten-ep string, and one enterprising poster extracted the episode information from the source code for the GSN schedule site. I happened to watch a bit of this marathon and enjoyed the old-time Password knockoff (and improvement). But as I expected, some GSP posters were too busy complaining about the skein to enjoy it. A typical post...

Not only no '84, but also no November-December '83, no January-May '85, and no April-October '87.

Oh, darn. No April, 1985 eps. What a calamity.

It's an old story, but many people on the oldies boards like complaining about GSN more than they like actually watching old game shows. The network can't win with a lot of the older-is-better folks, so they might as well stop trying.

Now that I mentioned America Says, the GSN schedule shows that the lively Family Feud knockoff will keep all its current slots in addition to the prime time run at 9:00 PM for the new eps starting November 26. That means John Michael Higgins and friends will get 24 showings a week. GSN is banking heavily on its homegrown hit.