Rerun abuse and Classic chit chat

Slow Sunday afternoon, so I'm going to be talking about rerun abuse. It is not a good thing, and on weekends is the time where lots of shows get rerun abuse. Certain shows that are more than enjoyable to watch and are "classic" type shows, like on GSN such as Lingo (Woolery), Chain Reaction, Whammy!, Family Feud (If not run into the ground like GSN does on Monday's and Saturday's.), etc...

Shows like Deal or No Deal, Who Wants to be a Millionaire? (Which at a time was rerun abused on GSN), 1 vs. 100, Million Dollar Password (However, I find that an enjoyable show), Lingo (Engvall, though that gets fair ratings, if GSN made a new season, I would say continue airing reruns), Catch-21 (Same applies. Get new episodes, it's done well) and the list goes on and on. Though, I do enjoy Catch-21 still. All those shows could stand to go.

Then you might ask, what will GSN air in their place? Well, GSN should really try to acquire fresh, new shows and new episodes of classics. Young people like classics, from what I heard on the press release about the $25,000 Pyramid tribute. The ratings for that increased 35% or something like that. Classics that don't involve outdated trivia questions like Tic Tac Dough, Blockbusters, The Joker's Wild, etc... I actually enjoy those old trivia game shows but, those questions on those shows are outdated and the shows get low ratings. Tic Tac Dough when it aired on GSN, bombed.

Card Sharks (Perry) did well at 10:00am Monday - Friday when it aired. It wouldn't kill GSN to expand time on classics, either. Get new classics, fresh episodes too and you're set. Classics are good for 8am - 2pm ET at least on Mon - Fri since that's the time frame when the older generation watches. Although, I'd like classics to expand from 8-3pm but still. Either way.

Classics have proven to do well. They made the network where it got today. But, my whole point is rerun abuse is not good. If GSN wants to revive a show like Deal or No Deal or any of those shows mentioned above, I wouldn't care one bit. 1 vs. 100 should be brought back again. The remake did fairly okay ratings. GSN needs to do something to stop rerun abuse on shows. All networks should. Rerun abuse is NOT a good thing.

I almost forgot to mention Family Feud a little more. GSN has been running Karn/O'hurley and Harvey into the ground for some time and it's getting old. This is one of my favorite game shows but GSN should massively cut down on this show and cut block scheduling. So, if GSN cut back on it, GSN should air it Weekdays: 4pm, 4:30pm, 5:00pm, 5:30pm, 8:00pm, 8:30pm. Weekends: 3:00pm, 3:30pm, 5:00pm, 5:30pm, 11:00pm, 11:30pm. I'm talking about Karn/O'Hurley and Harvey, by the way.