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  • The Saturday Evening Post

    WHAT’S ON

    Mar 01, 2022 2 minutes
    By Cable Neuhaus

    The topic is TV game shows. I have three questions for you (answers at bottom):

    1. Which one bombed so badly that it was canceled after just one episode?

    2. Who’s hosted a show for the longest stretch?

    3. And finally, what current show is the most searched on Google?

    If you answered any of these questions correctly, congratulations, but, debuted in 1941.) While they’ve not entirely defied the laws of TV-land gravity, game shows as a category are the medium’s scrappiest survivors — its hardy cockroaches, if you will. And I don’t mean that in a negative way.

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