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Welcome To Network Summer TV - A Vast Wasteland Of Game Shows
Welcome to network TV summer, which used to be a vast wasteland of reruns, old movies and the occasional special. Not anymore. The previous season's shows can be seen online and nobody really watches them on old fashioned TV anymore. So what's a network to do? Program the next four months with cheap programming like game shows.
Don't get me wrong - I like some game shows. They've been a staple on the tube since its inception. But an entire summer of almost nothing but? Have to say I'm glad I've got a lot of stuff saved on my DVR that I haven't watched yet. Because it sounds like the next few months will be dry as dust - or at least way too similar - on the Big 4, NBC, CBS, ABC and Fox.
It's game on - and good shows off. Another reason that streaming is eating their lunch.
Except PBS, broadcasters rely on competition, game shows this summer
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Canadian channels have more varied prime time programming in the summer. More movies and not as many game shows. CBC and NBC will be full of Olympic coverage and hype end of July and August for three weeks. Let's hope CTV shows some material from streamers and not just repeats of BB Theory.
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paterson1 wrote:
Canadian channels have more varied prime time programming in the summer. More movies and not as many game shows. CBC and NBC will be full of Olympic coverage and hype end of July and August for three weeks. Let's hope CTV shows some material from streamers and not just repeats of BB Theory.
It's funny because you'd think BB theory would be burned out by now and something new would take it's place.
I LOVE gameshows, so this will be a great summer.
FOX Note: The Floor isn't just a summer filler to pop up and vanish.
Renewal wasn't just for season two. It also got a season 3 go ahead, so that ought to say something about how well (some) gameshows are doing in the ratings...
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If you have a VPN set to the U.S., you can watch Buzzr for free on Tubi. It features a ton of old games shows, including What's My Line, To Tell The Truth, Classic Concentration, Match Game, Gambit and more.
My favourite part of this is how different life was back then. Cars sold for $6,000. Vacations to exotic places were valued at just $2,000. And then there's the inevitable "meet the contestants" segment, where the male players are asked about their professions, and the women are asked, "Where are you from and what does your husband do?"
They'd never get away with that kind of query today but boy, was that a different time.
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They'd never get away with that kind of query today but boy, was that a different time.
Yeah different wages too. In 1966 you could buy a house for only $66,000. Meanwhile, the minimum wage was only a dollar an hour.
66 thousand hours of work pays off the base price of a house today...right? 
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