The Federal Communications Commission has opened an inquiry into a canceled Fox game show after accusations of rigging.
If you didn’t catch an episode of the show, Our Little Genius, you had a good reason: the show never actually aired. Mark Burnett, the mastermind of shows like Survivor and The Apprentice, pulled the show before Fox could run it …

Next week, game show host Bob Eubanks will do something no one else in television history has ever done before.  And in case you couldn’t guess, it will involve newlyweds.
Eubanks, you will surely recall, was the original host of Chuck Barris’s tacky Newlywed Game, which aired on ABC from 1966 to 1974.  It returned in syndication, airing from 1977 to …

On Friday’s episode of The Price is Right, we learned that spelling isn’t necessarily the strong suit of the show’s electronic graphics department.
In the old days of the show, they’d reveal trips and cruises with giant painted murals that took a lot of time to create.  Now, in their efforts to go as high-tech as possible, they’ve ditched the murals …

The Price is Right, which is the longest-running game show in television history, is celebrating 7,000 shows on today’s edition.
That’s despite the fact that by all counts, what was really their 7,000th show actually hit back in January or so.  (It seems that the show’s numbering system for its episodes — including differentiating between daytime network and nighttime syndicated episodes …

“And stop it, light it, push in, pull out, fly it, lights, turn the turntable, John!” —Mark Breslow, Director’s Track, Match Game ‘79
Marc Breslow was an amazing director in daytime television. He was the original director of the current run of The Price is Right, and many of the shots he designed way back in 1972 are still in …

One of the basic steps to getting on a game show is meeting eligibility requirements, which vary from show to show. Most shows demand that you not have appeared on any other show within a certain timeframe. Most also demand that you never have appeared previously on the show you’re trying to get on at that moment.
Jeff Kirby …

For years, gays and lesbians have been fighting for their right to marry the loves of their lives.
That time has not come, yet, but tonight, for the first time, a gay couple did have an opportunity previously restricted only to heterosexual couples: the chance to appear — and embarrass themselves — on The Newlywed Game.
 
 
Yes, that show is still on …

I never cease to be amazed by the level of laziness the internet has caused, especially among younger folks who’ve pretty much always had access to it.
Hand them a phone book, or walk them into a library with an increasingly-rare card catalog and you would think you’ve taken their entire life away.
Over at a certain game show website I’m a …

The 38th season of The Price is Right begins one week from today. FremantleMedia, the company that now owns and produces the show, just launched a new website, priceisright.com, and there’s a sneak peek at what’s new.

There’s always been a love-hate relationship between soap and game show fans.  Technically, the two sides needed each other, because success in both genres have helped build classic daytime lineups we all grew up with.  But for years, as game shows have quietly receded away from the daytime network landscape, soaps have, for the most part, held their own.
That scale …

So here’s how my picks for the Game Show Awards matched up with the real winners. Prepare to be entertained. Or shocked. Or bored.
I’m a little of both: there are some major bonehead decisions here, including the first two winners. But I’ll keep score and see how right I was:
BEST GAME SHOW: My pick: …

…the game show junkie!
Tonight at 8:00pm. GSN is offering The 2009 Game Show Awards.  The special, hosted by Deal or No Deal’s Howie Mandel, will honor current and classic game shows, and there are special lifetime achievement awards for three legends of the genre.
Bob Barker, who hosted The Price is Right for 35 years before retiring two years ago, will …

If you missed The Price is Right last week, you missed a first:  this never happened to Bob Barker, but Drew Carey really felt a winning contestant’s excitement in a place you would never want to.
Watch the video after the jump.

CBS is reportedly considering game shows to replace its 72-year-old soap Guiding Light when that program goes off the air in September.  Among the possibilities are remakes of Monty Hall’s Let’s Make a Deal and the 70s hit The Dating Game.  I’m not a huge fan of either show, though I’d take ‘Deal’ over ‘Dating’ any day.  Other sources say …

“Canon is only important to certain people because they have to cling to their knowledge of the minutiae.” —Leonard Nimoy

I have not seen the new Star Trek movie, yet, but you don’t have to have watched it to have heard about the big controversy it’s apparently causing among diehard fans.
It’s all about something called canon.
Canon is basically decisions made in …

The newest Patrick’s Place Poll is asking you which TV game show you think you’d be best at playing for real.
My favorite game show is, as most of you know, The Price is Right.  I liked it a lot better when Bob Barker was host; the new version with Drew Carey doesn’t feel quite the same.  Still, it’s a game …

Today, April 22nd, is Earth Day.  Earth Day is a big deal for a lot of people, and I’m glad that there are so many people who claim to give a darn about the environment at least one day a year.
One of the most unlikely ways one might expect to celebrate the annual event would be to watch a game …

When CBS’s The Price is Right tapes today, former host Bob Barker will be on hand.
No, he’s not taking the microphone back from Drew Carey, who succeeded him as host in 2007; Barker is appearing to promote his new memoir, Priceless Memories.  TVNewsday reports that Barker will appear during both Showcase Showdowns (that’s the Big Wheel, not the endgame), and …