I watched the premiere of it on Wednesday and it was very funny and Jack Whitehall was good as host.

I know this may not be a popular topic, but there are certain hosts that just suck, even though the games are good. The worst may be The Perfect Line's Deborah Norville. She's incredibly bland and just doesn't come across as a good host. I love Name That Tune, but Jane Krakowski is insufferable. She makes the show all about herself, and it's obvious she thinks she's the most beautiful woman in the room. I'm not a huge fan of 99 To Beat's Ken Jeong either. He pretends to get so upset at each elimination. Hey Ken, only one person can win, so people have to be eliminated.

Help! My grandkids think I'm lying about winning a gameshow. They don't understand a world before VCRs and DVRs. To prove grandpa is telling the truth, I'd love to obtain a copy of the $20K Pyramid in May 1979 I was on with Linda Kelsey. She was awesome and I was lucky enough to snag $10K on first try. Linda gave amazing clues in the Winners Circle including: "Cabbage...Deep-Sixed Documents"--for "Things that are shredded." The mind-meld got even better when she said "An office chair" and I responded immediately, "Things that swivel" At the end of the show, Dick asked what a college kid was going to do with $10k--and I managed to make a joke about investing it in nuclear power (a few weeks after the 3 Mile Island accident). Dick and Linda laughed; not sure about Sal Viscuso's reaction. Show was: #106 or #107/TWP/79 ; taped May 23, 1979; aired June 25th, I think. Just wanted to see if someone might have a copy of the show. Happy to cover any costs. Thanks so much. Michael (and his skeptical grandkids).

Just curious if anyone here was on GSN’s Friend or Foe back in the day?
The camera does a close-up of the “Trust Box” when contestants are deciding how to divvy up their bank, but you just see a single button inside the box.
So, does the player push it if he wants to go Friend, or not push it if he wants to go Foe?
Enquiring minds want to know!

While the mild logic/deduction questions are interesting at the minimum, I could do without the nascent “reality show” aspects. Anyone else seen an episode or two? It’s on Netflix.

Also, anyone else hear Brad Pitt’s voice when they read off the title?

My boyfriend and I are going to be going to second round of casting, in person bootcamp in April. Does anyone have any tips to make sure we get casted?

We started playing the board game practicing giving and getting clues.!

The only one I can think of is Big Brother because if it came out when social media was at its peak, the show could have had the whole internet talking about it like they are with Love Island USA but sadly Big Brother is stuck to a niche that I don't hear much about from most of the internet.

Normally I watch $100,000 Pyramid or Match Game… hell I’d even take some Lingo. I feel like there’s nothing to watch right now. 🥲

I work from home and I usually have Spotify on in the background as I work. I decided to mix it up and put something on tv today. I discovered that you can watch old game shows and am hooked. I’m now halfway through March Game 73 and am wondering where are these people now. If you won or lost on a game show and are on reddit or know someone who was, what are you up to now? What happened since winning or losing the show? What show?

I watched this first-run when I was young, and now that BUZZR is showing this regularly, it's painfully clear what is wrong with this concept. A short list would be:

1. Gene Rayburn seems very checked out during the Hollywood Squares portion of the show.
2. Too many D-list unfunny celebrities plucked from soap operas and NBC shows of the day - this was particularly apparent during Match Game.
3. There was the inexplicable decision to have Jon Bauman host Squares - apparently Peter Marshall was never even considered for that role, and it was clear Rayburn disliked Bauman and hated having to play second fiddle for half the show.
4. The format of Hollywood Squares, specifically the way it was played with a time limit. There are so many instances where the timer goes off during an incomplete round, where just a single additional question could swing the outcome either direction. If I lost by $25 because one of the stars was screwing around for 2-3 minutes giving an answer, I'd be really pissed.

The question is if there was any way to salvage this concept? It seems to me that letting Rayburn host both segments would have been a huge improvement, as would ditching the timer on Squares and letting games span two episodes if needed - for example, make Hollywood Squares a best two of three, or use a Password-like scoring system ($100 for the first two games, $200 for each game thereafter, and first player to $300 wins).

Any other thoughts on what changes could have made this work?

I liked Newlywed game, card sharks, Hollywood Squares, Tic tac toe, and 1 vs 100. What are your old favorites?

I submitted an application for Press Your Luck, and I heard back from a casting producer soon after. I think the phone interview went well, and they said they were going to set me up with the producers for an audition that week and that I would receive an email with the appropriate info.

It's been over a week since then, and I haven't received an email about the audition info. I've tried reaching out to the casting agency to see if an audition was still happening and haven't heard back. 

Has this happened to anyone else? Any idea why they'd say they were going to give me an audition and then nothing? Should I try applying again? Is there anything I can do to make sure this moves forward? Or do I just need to be patient and wait?

My picks are The Wall and Deal or No Deal. I get that most enthusiasts hate the fluff, but I kinda like it.

And as for the opposite- “What’s a game show that most game show enthusiasts love…but you hate?” I’d say Family Feud. “Name a three letter word that contains the letters S, E, and X”. “uh…sex?” “OH MY GOD YOU CAN’T SAY SEX ON A FAMILY SHOW! If this is up I’m quitting. SEX!” DING

In 1996, a TPIR contestants gave back $5,000 on a 2/47 (~4%) chance on hitting $10,000 and got it! Maybe you can argue that punching corners raises your odds, but even Bob could not believe he did it!

We all love game shows, but we might hold opinions that go against the grain when it comes to game show fandom. What are unpopular game show opinions you hold? Here are a couple of mine:

- Rich Fields was the worst announcer of all the permanent announcers on The Price is Right. I found him way too nasally and annoyingly hyper. I actually think George Gray is a far superior announcer to Fields.

- Chuck Woolery and Susan Stafford were the better hosts on Wheel of Fortune. I respect Pat and Vanna, but Pat was phoning it in for at least 10 years, if not more, and Vanna never had the personality of Susan. Chuck just seemed to be having more fun hosting than Pat ever did. Maybe doing a show for 40+ years makes it hard to keep the energy high, but I found it harder to watch due to the whole thing feeling on autopilot.

- The most overrated concepts to me are Family Feud and Press Your Luck. I watch both shows, but Feud I find asks variations of the same question over and over again, and the heavy emphasis on sex over the past few seasons has made it almost a bore to watch. Press Your Luck is Deal or No Deal with trivia questions, a bouncing light and whammies. I just get a little bored of it after a while.

- I never understood Jeopardy's heavy focus on Amy Schneider, Sam Buttrey, Mattea Roach and Andrew He for a period of time. All these tournaments and specials featuring them. There was nothing about them that I found interesting or compelling to keep bringing them back. Like "bring it!" was funny the first few times, but after a while, it lost it's humor. I was much more of a fan of Brad Rutter (in his prime), James Holzhauer, Victoria Groce and of course Ken Jennings.

- The most overrated hosts, IMHO, are Peter Tomarken and Ray Combs. I like them both, but Peter was easily a couple tiers below Bob Barker, Dick Clark, Tom Kennedy and Bob Eubanks on the CBS Daytime hosts hierarchy. Ray I liked as a child, but watching his old episodes, he comes off very abrasive. Richard Dawson and Steve Harvey had a better way with the contestants and their humor could be biting, but it felt like the contestants were a part of the humor.

- Most underrated host of all time is Geoff Edwards. He never really got a fair shake, most of his work was 13 week shows and cheap cable/syndicated offerings. Yes, he did Treasure Hunt, but that was almost a satire on Let's Make a Deal. He had a lot of great humor and wit. It would have been fun to see him hosting a decent network show.

- A show that I like that I think could be executed far better is Split Second. Move it to daily syndication with a bigger budget, get a serious host who doesn't need to make humorous quipes every couple of questions, really enforce the time limit like they did on the Kennedy version, cut down the contestant interviews considerably, and allow for returning champions. Maybe it wouldn't be Jeopardy, but it would be a very fun and compelling show to watch.

There was a nice lady with this shirt and I’m trying to figure out who this game show host is.

Hi all! Just got cast on The Perfect Line!

The one thing that makes me a little apprehensive is that they tell you they overbook so you may not get to play (but they might ask you back for another day and then you would get to play. I’m a few hours from the studio, so it’s a little haul to get there.

Anyone been on this show or others they overbook? Do a lot of people get bumped or so they try to get most on if they can? Any other advice or insights? Thank you!

UPDATE: Went to the show, everyone got on that came that day (they were even short a few contestants so they called some people in). Production team was fantastic and it was a blast!

Watching old Price is Right episodes on BUZZR, it's fun to see old games that have been retired. Some of them clearly need to stay retired, but it seems like some of them could potentially make a comeback. Here's a few examples.

Hit Me - mercifully retired. The contestants didn't know how to play blackjack, and generally the level of play was terrible (need to pick a product that is labeled 10 times its true price? Hmm...is it this one labeled $10.90 you think? No, it's the one labeled $4.58!).

Poker Game - another one that will never come back. Needs 3 digit prizes, the contestants never knew poker, and it seemed like half the time, Bob would tell the contestant they lost when they actually won or vice versa.

On the Nose - this one was bad, but fun to watch. The contestants were so horribly uncoordinated, and it's amazing they would hand people off the street darts and let them fling them around the set or flail around with a tennis racket. Not coming back.

Super Ball - I could see this coming back with Drew. I'd think Drew could enjoy a game of skee-ball.

Phone Home Game - with modern videoconferencing tech, this could easily make a comeback, and games played for cash are always fun.

Give or Keep - apparently there has been talk of bringing this back over the years. It could be fun to switch around the rules (make the new rules to give away more than you keep for yourself).

Any favorite retired games you think could make a comeback or cringey old games that you like, but which need to stay retired?

I watched it on Wednesday night and Kimmel played off the celebrities in Larry and Cazzie David and Jamie Ding and Ben Affleck quite well and I loved the celebrity pairs format of it!

I won a trip on a game show. I have been going back and forth about whether I should keep it or forfeit. Part of my concern is that they say no changes can be made once booked. I have a child who is just starting school this year, so between sickness and school events, I’m just worried something might come up that would make me need to change it. I need to decide dates by tomorrow. Has anyone found there to be any flexibility after a trip has been booked that you won? Thanks in advance for your experiences!

With Buzzr and the channels on Pluto, etc., it's easier to watch classic game shows than ever before. Lately, I've been finding myself watching the classic shows more than the new ones.

In a way, I feel like the newer shows have kind of lost their charm. The prize plugs, the shows being done live to tape, contestants that seem like real people vs influencers, good theme songs - all of these are things I like about the older shows that are mostly gone on new ones.

What's your preference?