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'Jeopardy' host Alex Trebek set the game show world into a panic with the suggestion he may retire when his current contract ends.

Normally, we think of a television program being broadcast live or recorded for playback at a later time. 'Live to Tape' is more of the latter.

Just when you least expect it, the misuse of our language can come with a heavy price. Just ask the game show contestant who didn't choose correctly between flamenco or flamingo.

One of television's all-time most annoying game shows, 'Deal or No Deal,' is set to return to television later this year...this time on cable.

Featuring a rotating collection of pricing games, 'The Price is Right' has been a high-rated fixture on daytime television for 45 years.

Anyone who knows me knows I've always been a big game show fan. But here's a look at my picks for favorite game show hosts.

Ever pondered what makes popular TV shows so popular? I have, especially when one everyone seems to love leaves me scratching my head.

I've always been a fan of game shows, and in fact, some of my earliest memories watching television involves the game show genre.

Yes, I'm a big fan of game shows. But over the last decade or so, I've always felt the need to qualify that statement.

Fifty-five years ago this week, the then head of the FCC described television as a 'vast wasteland' and challenged broadcasters to do something about it. On May 9, 1961, Newton N. Minow gave his first speech as the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, telling a meeting of the...

I believe it's a safe guess on my part that only a narrow splinter of this blog's audience will ever even have heard of Marc Breslow. But to the small group of people who recognize the name, he was a revered man in his field and responsible for setting the...

Game show icon Bob Barker is back on the CBS stage of The Price is Right celebrating his 90th birthday.

Word to the wise: if you file a Worker's Comp claim over a debilitating injury, avoid the temptation to “Come on Down!” This could be one of my favorite stories of the year. CBS affiliate WRAL-TV reports a former Fayetteville, North Carolina, postal carrier who’d claimed she couldn’t lift mail...

Weeks after NBC renewed its only soap, CBS has gone one step further, announcing that it’s renewing its entire daytime lineup for the 2013-2014 season. Sort of. One of its shows, The Young and the Restless, already received a multi-season renewal that spans into next season. ‘Y&R’ is currently daytime’s number...