JMFabianoRPL
Stunt Coordinator
- Joined
- Mar 5, 2013
- Messages
- 212
- Real Name
- James Fabiano
I plead guilty to coming up with "Dark Period" back in the day, and yes, how little we knew that we still had it good back then. (Though they added trends that would continue into later "good" periods, like the repeat of the AM block into the afternoon) Either way, it was the point you knew things wouldn't be the same again.
In the years thereafter, it seems like there were more peaks and valleys. 1998 was good cause we got the G-T shows back, but then came a valley when they started shoving originals like Extreme Gong and Throut and Neck down our throats. You also only got to see the "popular" versions of certain classics, meaning no Eubanks Card Sharks, Combs Family Feud, or Super Password (the latter two were only seen in the wee hours of the weekend for awhile, then dropped). This is also when the split screens and cutting of fee plugs started. 2000 had the discovery of CBS Joker's Wild, but more mediocre originals and no more TPIR. All the while, we must also consider the overpushing of Newlywed Game (though it's NOTHING like that of any version of Family Feud from 2002 on). When Rich Cronin took over in late 2000 or 2001, things got better for a while and we saw the aforementioned alternate versions of certain shows, and later Press Your Luck, Let's Make A Deal, and Squares. But that is also when the speedups started, and again, while some of the better originals came from his reign, more mediocre ones would soon come. I also think Cronin was when they had to lease Sony properties a season at a time (which would spread later to, well, everything).
And so forth and so on, with a name change in between (which had a really good period in 2003 when they brought back the Bill Rafferty shows, Tom Kennedy-hosted Password Plus, and more...), and here we are now. There are some bright spots, like the lease of 1983 Press Your Lucks and of Sale of the Century, but that pretty much is kept in a token corner for classics (kind of like game rooms keeping a Ms. Pac-Man and a Galaga). Too much seeing what sticks to the wall with originals (and yet, The Pyramid is the one that gets buried?!!?) and too much new Family Feud...heck, not even Dawson's is on anymore! Guess they don't want to remind people that FF can be funny without being smutty, eh? (nor how Steve Harvey, despite being good, is overrated compared to the real masters of the board, Richard Dawson and Ray Combs)?
Sony and Fremantle need to get episodes of their game shows on some kind of on demand or online service ASAP. Thank goodness we have YouTube, though.
In the years thereafter, it seems like there were more peaks and valleys. 1998 was good cause we got the G-T shows back, but then came a valley when they started shoving originals like Extreme Gong and Throut and Neck down our throats. You also only got to see the "popular" versions of certain classics, meaning no Eubanks Card Sharks, Combs Family Feud, or Super Password (the latter two were only seen in the wee hours of the weekend for awhile, then dropped). This is also when the split screens and cutting of fee plugs started. 2000 had the discovery of CBS Joker's Wild, but more mediocre originals and no more TPIR. All the while, we must also consider the overpushing of Newlywed Game (though it's NOTHING like that of any version of Family Feud from 2002 on). When Rich Cronin took over in late 2000 or 2001, things got better for a while and we saw the aforementioned alternate versions of certain shows, and later Press Your Luck, Let's Make A Deal, and Squares. But that is also when the speedups started, and again, while some of the better originals came from his reign, more mediocre ones would soon come. I also think Cronin was when they had to lease Sony properties a season at a time (which would spread later to, well, everything).
And so forth and so on, with a name change in between (which had a really good period in 2003 when they brought back the Bill Rafferty shows, Tom Kennedy-hosted Password Plus, and more...), and here we are now. There are some bright spots, like the lease of 1983 Press Your Lucks and of Sale of the Century, but that pretty much is kept in a token corner for classics (kind of like game rooms keeping a Ms. Pac-Man and a Galaga). Too much seeing what sticks to the wall with originals (and yet, The Pyramid is the one that gets buried?!!?) and too much new Family Feud...heck, not even Dawson's is on anymore! Guess they don't want to remind people that FF can be funny without being smutty, eh? (nor how Steve Harvey, despite being good, is overrated compared to the real masters of the board, Richard Dawson and Ray Combs)?
Sony and Fremantle need to get episodes of their game shows on some kind of on demand or online service ASAP. Thank goodness we have YouTube, though.