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 1980, and came back again from 1985 to 1988.
But the game couldn’t be kept down for too long, and returned once again for a two-year run from 1997 to 1999.  …

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 the air.
Its current incarnation began its second season on GSN Monday night, and on tonight’s broadcast, Star Trek’s George Takei and his husband, Brad Altman, appeared on the program.
This current …

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: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire Winner: Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader? What? Seriously? A show hosted by Jeff “You Might be a Redneck” Foxworthy …

…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 receive the Legend Award.
Monty Hall, who hosted and co-produced the classic Let’s Make a Deal over a span of four decades, will receive the Icon Award.  Hall, who dealt with …

There’s absolutely nothing on to watch today.
If I were a fan of basketball, I could find plenty to watch.  But I have no desire to watch basketball.  None.  I don’t understand the appeal of the game.
I hate watching movies on cable television.  Yesterday, I found The Shining on one of the stations and I watched a few minutes of it.  Before I knew it, I was into it, and it was time for a long commercial break.  So I grabbed my DVD and watched from that point.  The movie on …

I’m seriously considering something that I can’t believe I’m considering at all:  cutting my cable television service.
My parents first got cable television some time around 1979.  Back in those days, there were only about 20 or 30 channels total, but that in itself was a great improvement over the four we’d had before that.  Back then, HBO wasn’t a 24-hour channel; they came on around 5:00pm and broadcast movies until 6:00am or so, then signed off for the day.
Ever since then, we’ve had cable.  I’ve never lived anywhere on my …

If he were still alive (he died at age 81 in 1999), game show great Gene Rayburn would have been 90 today.
Rayburn was host of Match Game, a goofy, racy, laugh-fest that ran for nine years on CBS in the 1970s and early 1980s.  Match Game, other than The Price is Right, was my all-time favorite game show.  (Third place would go to the original What’s My Line? for those of you who were dying to know.)
Match Game was one of the few bright spots on the GSN (formerly Game …

I had noticed something missing lately from Tivo’s offerings: classic game shows, like those typically found on GSN (which used to be Game Show Network and now goes only by initials).
For the past week or so, apparently, GSN has been MIA. I called Comcast to ask WTF, though not in those specific terms, and PDQ after pressing the button indicating a “problem” with my service, a recording came on telling me that as of November 16, GSN had been moved to the digital tier at channel 179.
To continue …

Editor’s Note: I have been asked by GSN to review two of the network’s newest game shows slated to premiere this Tuesday. I do not work for GSN and am not being compensated for these reviews.
The second show I’ve been asked to have a look at is “Starface,” which isn’t a remake of anything. In fact, it’s a new concept based on what has become an unfortunate trend in today’s society.
I’ll let GSN elaborate: their press release on this show begins with this:
“We live in a time when …

Editor’s Note: I have been asked by GSN to review two of the network’s newest game shows slated to premiere this Tuesday. I do not work for GSN and am not being compensated for these reviews.
GSN is doing a remake of a modest 1980 NBC game show called “Chain Reaction.” Before I watched the first episode, I already had one thing in mind: I didn’t want to like this show.
The original version was hosted hosted by game show legend Bill Cullen, and pitted two teams consisting of …

While I’m on the subject of game shows, I have to pass along this tidbit that I found over at Steve Beverly’s TVGameshows.net.
GSN (the former “Game Show Network”) used to run classic episodes of “I’ve Got a Secret,” a panel show hosted by Garry Moore. I was never a big fan of this particular show, although the original “What’s My Line?” is a favorite of mine. Recently GSN started a new version of “I’ve Got a Secret” with a distinctively retro feel. But the old version seemed …