Not enough Love triangle or Baggage, too many re runs, too much Lingo

I have always loved Pyramid & loved the current show with Donnie Osmond. What happened to it?

I like to watch the old '70s game shows to see how much prizes were back then, namely cars. They were $3,000 back then--now they're $18,000, $19,000, $23,000, $28,000 these days. Cadillacs were $9,400 in the '70s--now they're $47,000-55,000 in 2009! I noticed that while watching Let's Make a Deal.

I think that GSN is trying not to show too much of the '70s game shows like Let's Make A Deal and $25,000 Pyramid too often. It's what got people gravitated to the network in the '90s. They've noticed a lot of the newer game shows like Millionnaire and want to show those episodes more. And even produce their own shows on their network. Plus most things are played on DVD now versus videotape in the past. There's a bigger library for game shows now. There have been a lot of game shows lately with contestants competing for a million dollars. Trying to avoid giving contestants cheesy "lovely parting gifts" for losing contestants is the trend in game shows these days. Trust me, I love the old shows, but I hope they can pick up the game shows that lasted for short runs on Fox and CBS recently. Such as Drew Carey's short Lived Power of 10 and Regis Philbin's Million Dollar Password that ran for 6-week runs on CBS in 2008. I'm sure that some production companies have kept possession of the old '60s and '70s shows and GSN has to get the rights and permission to air them. I'd like for them to run The Price Is Right's episodes of the '80s and '90s because many of them were good. But there's so much of a library of game shows that they can run within their 24 hour time slot. They could run thousands of those shows within 6 months to a year on their network. Much the same way that USA and cable networks showed Press Your Luck and Let's Make A Deal on weekday afternoons in the late '80s.

How about an updated Match Game, it was bounced around a couple of years ago, everyone put in panelist suggestions (like Ant, and Kathy Griffith) and you could use the same questions all over again!

I don't mind all the Millionaire myself, but then I've always really liked that show.

I would like to see more classics though. Particularly Concentration and TPIR. To make room in the schedule I'd eliminate all GSN produced shows (they all suck, even Lingo) and any of the Dog Eat Dog/Weakest Link type shows.

Also, get rid of GSN Live completely. What a waste of time, I'd rather watch more commercials.

I want Tattletales and Joker's Wild!!!! Not some crap that was on another network about three months ago.

I have no idea how to respond.

I work in game shows. I have for a while. LMAD and most other classics get about half the ratings that Millionaire does. It's still by far, without question, the highest rated game show on the network. Millionaire didn't come as cheaply as you think. It's a big ratings draw compared to the rest of the aging, ratings challenged shows.

Millionaire gets ratings. LMAD doesn't get as much ratings. Why get worse ratings. Simple as that.

And around 10 years ago they used to do "Sunday Nights In Black And White" where they showed kinescopes of the really old stuff from the 50s-- What's My Line, I've Got a Secret, very early To Tell The Truth. It's when the celebrities were witty and the shows felt like a bunch of clever people playing games at a cocktail party.

I wish they'd start doing that again. Heck-- do it at 3:00 in the morning and let me set my DVR for it.