GSN Slate Includes Projects from Davies, Gurin, 12 Yard, Lion TV

PASADENA, January 15:
GSN’s production and development slate for this year includes a range of new
series, reality formats and specials, with new projects from Michael Davies,
Phil Gurin, 12 Yard Productions and Lion Television, among others.

Jamie Roberts, the
network’s SVP of programming, said in announcing the new slate: "With game
programs performing well for the broadcast networks, it became imperative for
GSN to produce series that would garner attention in an already competitive
marketplace. The slate features a breadth of topics ranging from vocabulary
contests to cat competitions, knowledge quizzers to live reality challenges,
dating situations to provocative discussions. We're adding fresh elements that
push games and competitions in the U.S. into new territories.”

The network’s
programming for this year includes renewals on three key original shows: Lingo, hosted by Chuck Woolery, begins production in February for its sixth
season and premieres April 2. Chain
Reaction, executive produced by
Michael Davies and hosted by Dylan Lane, debuts its second season March 13, and
the fourth edition of World
Series Of Blackjack tapes at the
end of this month for a June premiere.

New series and specials
currently in production, meanwhile include Without Prejudice?,
based on 12 Yard’s show for Channel 4. Cat-Minster:
CFA International Cat Championship
is a two-hour special airing Tuesday, March 27 that covers the 19th Annual Cat
Fanciers' Association (CFA) International Cat Show. National Vocabulary Championship is a one-hour original special capturing the
performances of the nation's top 50 high school vocabulary students as they
compete in GSN's inaugural competition.

Development projects
include The Box from Lion Television USA. It is a live, nightly
reality game show event where contestants have to live and compete in a glass
box in the middle of a large American city. The series is based on the Irish
format. Carry Your Weight, conceived by Corbin Bernsen, involves three teams
of three people and each team has one person representing three categories:
beauty, brains and brawn. A new project from executive producer Michael Davies
and Sony Pictures Television is Grand
Slam, which pits 16 of the
greatest American game show contestants against each other in head-to-head
competitions. From Laurelwood Entertainment, Indecision,
executive produced by Phil Gurin, features one contestant making nine decisions
that could change his/her life forever. Kerry's
Getting Married, based on the
Scandinavian format from Strix Television, will follow one woman's search for
the perfect man. From Buena Vista Productions, Camouflage is a
game show of hidden word puzzles with trivia clues ranging from general
knowledge to pop culture. And War
of the Words, from Mast Media, is
a vocabulary quizzer.