Q: When did Recreation Present Community launch?
A: December 1, 1994.
Q: What was the primary sport present aired on the cable channel?
A: What’s My Line?
Q: Did Recreation Present Community enterprise into authentic programming?
A: Sure, with some reveals you might have heard of — together with the unique American model of The Chase and a long-running version of Lingo — and plenty of you most likely haven’t — together with the reveals beneath.
As Recreation Present Community celebrates its thirtieth birthday, we’re rummaging by means of the archives to unearth among the channel’s short-lived originals. What number of did you see?
20Q (2009)
Hosted by Cat Deeley and primarily based on the hand held digital sport of the identical identify, 20Q had contestants battling one another and a pc character (voiced by Hal Sparks) in 20 Questions-style challenges for money prizes. (And sure, this sport present was larger than a breadbox.)
Camouflage (2007)
This sport present had the letters to the puzzle solutions consecutively hidden amongst decoy letters. For instance, take the puzzle is “IF THEY’RE BOUNDING AROUND THEIR PARENTS, TIE LEASHES.” Your clue is “Tv present about hyperactive youngsters?” And the reply is The Younger and the Stressed.
Cram (2003)
How a lot are you able to accomplish after 24 hours with out sleep? That was the query of this sport present, wherein contestant duos had been sequestered in a Hollywood Boulevard storefront for twenty-four hours, given research materials to cram, after which quizzed on that materials whereas subjected to bodily challenges. (Enjoyable!)
Excessive Dodgeball (2004–2005)
Sure, the schoolyard sport of dodgeball did encourage a Recreation Present Community present, wherein themed groups — teams of mimes, sumo wrestlers, body-builders, and so forth — competed to peg opponents with dodgeballs. And this sequence had large balls — as in, dodgeballs twice the diameter of regular ones.
Hellevator (2015–2016)
From famed horror movie producer Jason Blum got here this 2015 sport present wherein groups of contestants took a “haunted” elevator to totally different flooring of a spooky warehouse, making an attempt to outlive the horrifying challenges on every stage. Assume “haunted home with an escape-room twist.”
Hidden Agenda (2010)
Think about Candid Digicam as a sport present, and you’ve got the gist of this one-season manufacturing. In Hidden Agenda, one half of a pair tried the opposite half to do outrageous issues with out letting on that they’re on a sport present and hidden cameras are following their each transfer.
How A lot Is Sufficient? (2008)
With Corbin Bernsen as host, gamers secretly buzzed in to cease a “cash clock” on this present. The greediest participant obtained nothing, so the trick was to buzz in second to final. GSN known as this a “network-defining present,” however apparently, one solitary season is how a lot was sufficient.
Jep! (1998–2000)
Think about Jeopardy! with pre-teen contestants, toy prizes, penalty packing containers, and plushie deluges, and you’ve got Jep!, a kid-centric spinoff of America’s favourite quiz present. Alex Trebek wasn’t the host — that may be Porky Pig voice actor Bob Bergen — however the late Jeopardy! emcee did function a guide.
Nationwide Vocabulary Championship (2007–2008)
It didn’t take off just like the Scripps Nationwide Spelling Bee did, however for 2 consecutive years, GSN and The Princeton Overview teamed as much as give teenagers throughout the nation an opportunity to win $40,000 towards faculty tuitions with their huge, voluminous, and… um… very giant vocabularies.
The Line (2014)
Hordes of individuals queued up for this sport present, and that was the purpose. On the entrance of the road, contestants may win a jackpot by answering eight trivia questions appropriately. However whereas they had been ready, they might play mini-games to higher their possibilities. For those who did catch this present, you’re a real GSN devotee — just one two-hour episode aired!