ESPN can't afford Monday Night Football any longer

Is this because of the over saturation of games or because at our ages (I am 60) it is harder than hell to stay up past 11 on the East Coast.

 

Both.

 

Exactly how I put it.

 

Yep. Similar to that Millionaire quiz show that came over from England. The Brits warned - don't show it every night, keep it to once a week, and, sure enough, the network rolled Regis right out there four night a week and the nation quickly tired of it.

 

Hey, give Regis credit, he knew how to rock the monochrome look. And he probably tripled his income for a couple years there.

 

And then we got The Weakest Link shit with that annoying Brit. Think NBC ran that one thankfully to the ground.

I'm too impatient with a lot of these game shows, particularly the prime time ones. They move too slowly and time commercials for suspense at which point I say "fuck this".

Wheel of Fortune is the only game show that keeps improving with age, tweaking things for the better. Anybody remember "going shopping", on account or gift certificate? Show would have died if they had kept that crap up.

 

Jeopardy is still great.

 

No way -- the shopping was the best part. The look on the contestant's face when he had to blow $500 on a ceramic dalmatian never stopped being funny.

 

But cheap as shit compared to the effort involved.

 

1. No one auditions for Jeopardy! for the money.

2. Winners can return game after game. And qualify for tournaments of champions.