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After seeing the reunion of the gameshow girls on ACA tonight, I was wondering whatever happened to those great Grundy’s gameshows of the 80′s? Things like Perfect Match, Sale Of The Century, Family Feud, Wheel Of Fortune, Press Your Luck, Play Your Cards Right etc.
I know the last 2 were repeated on Seven in the wee hours of the morning in the very early 90′s, but the others haven’t been seen since their original airings (although I’m not sure if Perfect Match was ever repeated). Surely they’re not gathering dust somewhere in a network storeroom or worse still been lost forever.
With only 2 gameshows on our screens at the moment and all the digital channels around now and so many timeslots available the networks should showcase these vintage gameshows (and more old Australian content for that matter) as they had a really good feel that is hard to match these days. Nothing beats the energy and suspense filled entertainment value of a Grundy’s gameshow.
….Except to promote something else.
But I’m sure they’ll find a way to keep the 5 rings on our screens til next year.
@tomothyd
As annoying as the watermark is to viewers, TEN would be keen to be associated with a prestigious and successful brand like the Olympics. I don’t think they’ll be removing it.
TEN better not leave that intrusive Olympics watermark there until its over.
Revenge: Masquerade “In tonight’s not-to-miss season finale, Hamptonites celebrate Halloween…”
So Seven is pretending that the last episode before the April production break was a season finale. And are they going to dump Revenge with 4 episodes to go?
It doesn’t look like Soho are going to show the second episode of the Smash final on Wednesday night because of Wentworth though.
Common sense is prevailing over “express”.
Any word yet on the return of DooL, or why it’s taken so long? They appear to have taken off any full episodes from You Tube. Oh the withdrawal symtoms.
The Glades S4 is starting on Soho Thursday 8:30pm.
How many repeats of House Rules do we have to put up with, 11pm on a Friday night on 7mate.
A story you might have missed involving Ten’s Masterchef changing a description of a contestant from “Cattle rancher” to “The Stockman” in its latest promos.
weeklytimesnow.com.au/article/2013/05/09/569404_opinion-columnists.html
Re: Pop-ups
As I’ve admitted I am no fan of pop-ups. But as I’ve recently mentioned. I guess television stations have to decide do they prefer people to find out things from ads or TV Shows? Because these days a viewer could mainly find out information especially about new shows from the programming alone. I wonder if that will destroy the ads for especially the young? Just a disturbing thought.
@ David Knox ….I survived the hiccups…just…
There were some unforseen tech hiccups today, beyond my control. Still a few minor things to fix. Apologies for any inconvenience.
@Secret Squirrel I was enjoying Borgen so much I had to go out and buy the first series on DVD.
Thanks for the update David, I should have remembered Smash has the week off with the series final next week in the US, and a double episode to boot.
Just a note to confirm I have withdrawn a story on Smash episode, which was incorrect. The show was on hiatus in the US this week so could not be played. Rather than reiterate incorrect info I have withdrawn the post. Apologies for any confusion.
I thought Beauty and the Beast on TEN last night was surprisingly good.
And just to show that it’s not restricted to the commercials, I see that ABC1 (apparently) has a new ep of Would I Lie to You tonight instead of repeats or highlights or cut-down shows. I love the program but SBS have earnt my loyalty with consistent starts for Borgen so that’s where I’ll be at 9:30
@Rayne
Channel 9 and 7 have been making awfully bad decisions. 7 is turning more and more into the old Ten in 2012
There is now a double episode of The Following tonight. Way to go with the short notice Channel Nine!
NCIS – Not a fan of the double ep when it’s not a true 2 parter and last night we had to end on a cliffhanger.
Now we 2 weeks until it’s resolved and just 3 more eps in the season!
@NCISfan & @harrypotter1994
Every program? That would drive me up the wall!!
(Believe me, I was almost there last night)
NCIS is the only show on 10 I watch.
@Lyn @NCISfan The worst part is the characters move. They have played ones for Mr and Mrs Murder all through The Good Wife and its distracting which is good for 10 I guess
Caught a small bit of The Voice on Monday & Tuesday night on WIN Southern NSW. Way out of audio/video sync. Enough to be quite annoying.
@Lyn – I understand your frustration, but that watermark for Offspring has been on for every show over the last few days. Every single show. Not just NCIS. Same with the pop up promos on the bottom left. So TEN isn’t just pushing it in our face on a few shows.
Saying that, yes, awesome double episode. We’re really close to the US, who finished the season last week. NCIS actually pulled good numbers last night. I am really looking forward to the next ep, in two weeks time. (Not on next week, because of Biggest Loser extended finale)
NCIS double episode last night on Ch10 was great!Except for the watermark type ads in the lower left hand corner for the return of “Offspring”! They were on screen for almost the entire 2 eps! And the stupid pop up ads in the other corner were even worse!
Thanks Ch10 for the most annoying & distracting two hours! Please don’t do it again!
If this is how you treat a show that was once one of the top rating shows on your network, then I pity the other shows you have on!
According to their Guide the ABC is repeating S19 of Time Team from Tuesday and are not going to show the 20 year special final episode.
I did?