Game show follies

In the previous post I said that I had a few personal issues to deal with. Those issue will be cleared up in a couple weeks, but I've decided to take a permanent break from blogging.
It's been almost fourteen years since I started this blog, and it's always been a lot of fun. Even when trolls appeared and nonsense broke out on other sites, I've enjoyed the give and take. As my personal ID says, I'm a veteran of the game show wars...

Alleged sports site Yardbarker decided to make a listicle out of the 20 most charming game show hosts.
By and large the list is no surprise. I have no idea how the less than charming Anne Robinson made the list, but charm is in the eye of the beholder. There were a couple of somewhat offbeat choices like Richard Karn and Bert Convy. But those fellows...

The second season of Switch turned in decent numbers by GSN standards for its first week.
The line dancing quizzer averaged 399K viewers for the five eps in the week of September 18-22. Not terrific but okay for our little game show network. Taking a longer and bigger viewpoint, GSN got 294K/249K viewers prime time/total day for what Nielsen...

Hollywood Squares never dies. The format keeps turning up in one version or another.
Keven Hart will produce a back-themed rewind called Celebrity Squares debuting October 17 on alleged music channel VH1. Comic DC Young Fly (real name John Whitfield) will host the tic-tac-toe doings. Kevin Hart has run through a lot of Celebrity Game...