13 Facts About Game shows

Game shows show is a genre of broadcast viewing entertainment where contestants compete for a reward.

Game shows began to appear on radio and television in the late 1930s.

Daytime game shows would be played for lower stakes to target stay-at-home housewives.

In 1959, many of the higher stakes game shows were exposed as being either biased or outright scripted in the 1950s quiz show scandals and ratings declines led to most of the primetime games being canceled.

Game shows remained a fixture of US daytime television through the 1960s after the quiz show scandals.

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The Match Game shows became "Big Money" Match Game shows 73, which proved popular enough to prompt a spin-off, Family Feud, on ABC in 1976.

Game shows were the lowest priority of television networks and were rotated out every thirteen weeks if unsuccessful.

The boom quickly went bust, as by July 2000, almost all of the imitator million-dollar Game shows were canceled ; these higher stakes contests nevertheless opened the door to reality television contests such as Survivor and Big Brother, in which contestants win large sums of money for outlasting their peers in a given environment.

Several game shows returned to daytime in syndication during this time as well, such as Family Feud, Hollywood Squares, and Millionaire.

Since the early 2000s, several game shows were conducted in a tournament format; examples included History IQ, Grand Slam, PokerFace, Duel, The Million Second Quiz, 500 Questions, The American Bible Challenge, and Mental Samurai.

American game shows have a tendency to hire stronger contestants than their British or Australian counterparts.

Many of the prizes awarded on game shows are provided through product placement, but in some cases they are provided by private organizations or purchased at either the full price or at a discount by the show.

End game of Match Game shows, hosted for most of its run by Gene Rayburn, served as the impetus for a completely new game show.