GSN Schedule Changes for March

Looks like GSN’s shifting a few things around on its schedule this month.

Here are the changes, effective March 15th:
9:00 am ET Card Sharks (CBS 1986-89, Bob Eubanks) (replaces Child’s Play)
10:30 am ET Child’s Play (replaces Family Feud (Richard Dawson))

Card Sharks with Bill Rafferty (Syndie 1986-87), stays at 9:30 am ET and Blockbusters (NBC 1980-82) stays at 10:00 am ET.

Also the late Sunday night/early Monday morning line-up changes a bit starting this week:
11:00 pm ET How Much Is Enough (replaces Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?)
11:30 pm ET Family Feud (Richard Karn) (replaces Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?)
12:00 am ET Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? (replaces Super Password hour)

One thing that I really love about the upcoming weekend morning change is that it makes a lot of sense to have both ‘80’s eras of Card Sharks on in one hour. Though I don’t like it too much that Bob Eubanks’ version of Card Sharks will be starting over with episode 1. It hasn’t been off the schedule that long and when Body Language came back from its hiatus, they had no trouble starting from where they left off (I bring that up since both shows were taken off the daily line-up last year at the same time). And it’ll take a very long time to get to January 1987. But I’m glad that it’s coming back; you don’t start a show over from the beginning and then just yank it a few months later.

I’m mixed about Blockbusters still being on the schedule. I love it, it’s one of my favorite Goodson-Todman game shows, but it’s been on GSN for several years now and I wouldn’t mind it taking a bit of a rest. But it’s great that two shows hosted by Bill Cullen are going into the same hour.

I don’t like Super Password being removed from the late night schedule pretty much for selfish reasons. We were pretty close to getting to the end of the period in early 1985 where 12-13 weeks of the show were once skipped over in 2005. But alas, the daily rotation just started over so we’ll see the remaining episodes in a few months. There’s also considering what it’s being replaced by. I don’t know about anyone else, but I wouldn’t mind if Millionaire took a breather from GSN. Same with Karn Feud; there are already more than enough airings of that. There are three different versions of Family Feud that GSN has the rights to, and each consist of many episodes. To me there shouldn’t be an overabundance of any version over the others on the schedule.

Also good news next month for Russian Roulette fans, the show will be returning to the schedule April 1st!