Show Me the Money was finally shown the door today, and it looks like the remaining episodes may never see the light of day. Since the 2006 game show revival is being compared to the 1999 game show revival, I thought it might be worth crunching the numbers.

The two instigators of the revivals were Millionaire and Deal, respectively. No doubt both of these shows will go down in game show history as significant entries in their genre. But how do the imitators match up?

1999-2000:

Greed - 40+ episodes
Twenty-One - 20+ episodes
Winning Lines - Less than 10 episodes

2006:

Rich List - 1 episode
Show Me the Money - 5 episodes
1 vs. 100 - at least 15
Identity - ??

Seems to me like the public is a bit less receptive this time around, and networks are much quicker to swing the axe than they were 7 years ago. The big question is, will the oversupply of game shows (and growing number of cancellations) put a halt to the rampant development work at other networks (I mean, someone wants to bring back Child's Play for Pete's sake)?

Unless Identity really storms out of the gate next week, I'm afraid the 2006 revival will end up looking a lot less impressive than it's big sister.

 

posted by Brad @ 3:36 AM   0 comment(s)