Open Letter IV

[Rain Man]

To Game Show Network (oops, I mean GSN now):

YOUR NETWORK SUCKS! It used to be a BOMB network, chock full of Goodson/Todman shows (Price is Right, Family Feud, Match Game, etc.), Barry/Enright shows (Jokers Wild, Tic Tac Dough, etc.), sprinkled with a healthy dose of "special treats" (Game of the Week: an episode of a little-known game show or unsold pilot, Sunday Night Black and White, and plenty of game show marathons).

Well, now it is nothing but lame GSN orignal programming (well, Whammy! is/was the ONLY GSN original that I thought was great), and now it is being filled to the brim with lame reality shows that no one ever really cares to see (Arsenio Hall's Star Search, anyone?).

Even before you went the "GSN" route, you were re-running all the good shows in the ground, with the same freaking episodes of $100K Pyramid, Press Your Luck and even the original Peter Marshall Hollywood Squares (no wonder the ratings for that show fell so quickly--couldn't you order more that 150 eps of that show, considering over 3,000 shows were recovered and were assumed to be destroyed). I'm sorry, but your network has tanked since roughly the spring of 2003.

And to add insult to injury, the 6:30 and 9:00 eps of Match Game will be yanked after June 13, considering both showtimes has been a highly rated staple in the prime time schedule since the Dark Period (a period where GSN temporairly lost the rights to all Goodson/Todman games) ended in 1998.

Just one more reason I need to call my cable company and have them cut back my cable service. I don't need yall anymore anyway.

C-YA!