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American television game testify

Family unit Feud
Logo of Family Feud.png
Genre Game show
Created by Mark Goodson
Directed by
  • Paul Alter
  • Marc Breslow
  • Andy Felsher
  • Lenn Goodside
  • Ken Fuchs
  • Hugh Bartlett
Presented by
  • Richard Dawson
  • Ray Combs
  • Louie Anderson
  • Richard Karn
  • John O'Hurley
  • Steve Harvey
Narrated by
  • Gene Woods
  • Burton Richardson
  • Joey Fatone
  • Rubin Ervin
Theme music composer
  • Walt Levinsky
  • Edd Kalehoff
  • John Lewis Parker
Country of origin U.s.
Original linguistic communication English language
No. of seasons 22
No. of episodes 2,311 (ABC Daytime; 1976–1985)
976 (Syndicated; 1977–1985)
17 (ABC Primetime; 1978–1984)[1] [ better source needed ]
Production
Executive producer Steve Harvey
Producers
  • Howard Felsher
  • Cathy Dawson
  • Gary Dawson
Running time
  • 22–26 minutes:
  • Syndicated (1977–1985, 1988–1995, 1999–2022)
  • 42–44 minutes:
  • ABC specials (1978–1984)
  • CBS (1988–1993)
  • Syndicated (1994–95)
Production companies
  • Mark Goodson-Pecker Todman Productions
  • Marker Goodson Productions
  • Pearson Television
  • Fremantle Northward America
  • The Family Company
  • Feudin' Productions
  • Wanderlust Productions
Distributor
  • Viacom Enterprises
  • LBS Communications
  • All American Television
  • Pearson Television
  • Tribune Entertainment
  • Debmar-Mercury
Release
Original network
  • ABC
  • CBS
  • Syndicated
  • SCTV
  • Trans Television
  • ANTV
  • Net.
Picture format
  • NTSC
  • HDTV 720p/1080i
Sound format
  • Mono
  • Stereo
  • 5.1 Environs
Original release July 12, 1976 (1976-07-12) –
present
Chronology
Related shows
  • Celebrity Family unit Feud
External links
Website

Family Feud is an American television game show created by Marker Goodson in which two families compete to name the most pop answers to survey questions in club to win cash and prizes.

The evidence has had iii separate runs, the first of which started in 1976. Its original run from 1976 to 1985 aired on ABC and in syndication, with Richard Dawson as host. In 1988, the series was revived and aired on both CBS and in syndication with Ray Combs hosting until 1994, with Dawson returning until that version ended in 1995. In 1999, the series was revived through its showtime-run syndication with 4 different hosts: Louie Anderson (1999–2002), Richard Karn (2002–2006), John O'Hurley (2006–2010), and Steve Harvey (2010–nowadays). Studio announcers who introduced the contestants and read credits included Gene Wood (1976–1995), Burton Richardson (1999–2010), Joey Fatone (2010–2015), and Rubin Ervin (2015–present).

Within a year of its debut, the original version became the number one game prove in daytime television receiver; still, as viewing habits changed, the ratings declined. Harvey becoming host in 2010 increased Nielsen ratings significantly and eventually placed the program among the top three well-nigh-popular syndicated television receiver shows in the U.s.a.. Harvey has likewise surpassed every previous host in tenure, although Dawson hosted more than episodes of the show.

The program has produced multiple regional adaptations in over 50 international markets outside the The states. Reruns of episodes hosted past Steve Harvey air on Game Show Network, too as in syndication while reruns of before versions air on Buzzr. Aside from television shows, there take been too many home editions produced in board game, interactive flick, and video game formats.

Gameplay [edit]

Two family teams of five contestants (reduced to four contestants for the 1994–95 season) each compete to win cash by offering answers to survey questions. The original version of the bear witness began with the families being introduced, seated reverse each other equally if posing for family portraits, after which the host interviewed them.[2]

The minimum age to participate in Family Feud is 15, although every family must have at to the lowest degree one person who is 18 years or older. Each round begins with a "face-off" question that serves as a toss-up betwixt two opposing contestants. The host asks a survey question that was previously posed to a group of 100 people, such as "Name the hour that you get up on Sunday mornings."[three] A certain number of answers are concealed on the board, ranked past popularity of the survey'due south responses. Only answers said past at to the lowest degree ii people tin can announced on the board. The first contestant to fizz-in gives an answer; if it is the nearly pop, his/her family immediately wins the face up-off. Otherwise, the opponent responds and the family member providing the higher-ranked answer wins. Ties are broken in favor of the contestant who buzzes in first. If neither contestant'southward reply is on the lath, the other eight contestants have a chance to respond, 1 at a time from alternate sides, until an reply is revealed. The family that wins the face-off may cull to play the question or pass control to their opponents (except on the 1988–95 versions, when the family unit who won the face-off automatically gained command of the question).[three]

The family with control of the question then tries to win the round by guessing all of the remaining concealed answers, with each member giving one answer in sequence. Giving an incorrect answer, or declining to answer, earns a strike. Three strikes gives their opponents a chance to "steal" the points for the round past guessing any remaining answers. Otherwise, the points back to the family that originally had control. From 1992 to 2003, the value of the "stealing" answer was credited to the "stealing" family unit. If the opponents are given the opportunity to "steal" the points, and so only their team's helm is required to reply the question. For most of the serial, this is done after the family confers with each other; the only exception was on the 1988 series where each family unit member was polled for an answer with the team captain having the option to either select one of the family'southward answers or give a unlike answer.[3] Any remaining curtained answers on the board that were not guessed are then revealed.

Answers are worth ane indicate for every person in the 100-fellow member survey who gave them. The winning family in each round scores the total points for all revealed answers to that question, including those given during the face-off but excluding the one used to steal (if applicable). The number of answers on the board decreases from round to circular, and as the game progresses, certain rounds are played for double or triple point value.[2]

For most of the evidence'due south being, the starting time team to accomplish or surpass a sure point total won the game. The most common goal has been 300 points but in that location have been exceptions. When the original serial first premiered, the goal was 200 points and for its last year, it was increased to 400 points.[4] From the debut of the original serial until 1992, families were awarded $i per signal scored. From 1999 to 2003, there was no goal. The fourth round just was worth triple point values, and the highest scoring family unit after the fourth round won.

On the start two series a match continued until a family reached the goal. The current serial continues to exist played in four rounds. In 2003, when neither family reaches 300 by the end of the fourth circular, a sudden death question is played. The question consists of merely the highest-ranked answer in a survey and is played for triple point value.

In the original periodic primetime specials, iii games were played, with the first two using the $200 format. For the third game, only one question round was played with the winning two celebrity teams from the previous rounds playing.[v]

Fast Coin [edit]

At the end of the master game, the winning family selects two members to play the testify's bonus round, known as "Fast Coin". One contestant is onstage with the host, while the other is sequestered backstage with headphones and so as not to hear or see the starting time portion of the round. The first contestant is asked 5 rapid-fire survey questions and has a ready time limit in which to answer them (originally 15 seconds, extended to 20 in 1994); time begins to run only after the first question is asked, and the starting time contestant may pass on a question and render to information technology after all five take been asked, if time remains.

After the get-go contestant has finished answering or run out of time, he or she is awarded a betoken for each person in the survey who gave the same response. In one case these points are tallied, the board is cleared except for the total score, and the second contestant is then brought out to respond the same 5 questions. The same rules are followed, but the time limit is extended past five seconds (originally 20, then extended to 25); in addition, if the second contestant duplicates an respond given by the first, a buzzer sounds and he or she must give another answer. The family is awarded $five for each indicate. If the two contestants reach a combined total of 200 points or more, the family unit wins a cash prize.[3]

The cash prize for winning Fast Coin has varied. During the ABC and CBS incarnations of the show, the top prize was $5,000,[6] [vii] and $10,000 in syndication. In 2001, the prize was doubled to $twenty,000.[8]

In the original periodic primetime specials, each game was followed by a Fast Money round. The start two were each worth $v,000, and the final one was worth $x,000.[5]

Returning champions [edit]

When Family unit Feud premiered on ABC, network rules dictated how much a family could win. Once whatsoever family reached $25,000, they were retired as champions.[9] [ better source needed ] The accompanying syndicated serial that premiered in 1977 featured two new families each episode because of a then common television syndication practice known as "bicycling" (wherein private stations sent an episode of a series they had already aired to another station, reducing the number of tapes a syndicator had to send out but also ensuring that stations did not air the same episode of a show the same twenty-four hours, nor were they assured of airing in a proper sequence).

The CBS daytime and syndicated versions which began airing in 1988 also featured returning champions, who could announced for a maximum of five days.[10] [ better source needed ] For a brief menses in the 1994–95 season which aired in syndication, there were no returning champions. For these episodes, two new families competed in this kickoff half of each episode. The 2d half featured sometime champion families who appeared on Family Feud between 1976 and 1985, with the winner of the first half of the show playing one of these families in the second half.[eleven] [ better source needed ]

In some case from 1992 to 1995, the returning champions merely continue until they are defeated. From 1999 to 2002, two new families appeared on each episode. In 2002, the returning champions dominion was reinstated with the aforementioned five-day limit.[12] [ improve source needed ] In 2009, a new car was announced for a family who wins five games in a row.

Bullseye/Bankroll game [edit]

In June 1992, the CBS daytime edition of Feud expanded from 30 to hour and became known equally the Family unit Feud Challenge. Every bit office of the change, a new round was added at the start of each game called "Bullseye". This round determined the potential Fast Money stake for each team.[thirteen] Each team was given a starting value for their bank and attempted to come up with the top answer to a survey question to add to information technology. The Bullseye round was added to the syndicated edition in September 1992, which remained 30 minutes and was retitled as the New Family Feud.

The start ii members of each family unit appeared at the face up-off podium and were asked a question to which but the number-one answer was available. Giving the height answer added the value for that question to the family unit's bank. The process then repeated with the four remaining members from each family. On the first one-half of the daytime version, families were staked with $2,500. The outset question was worth $500, with each succeeding question worth $500 more than the previous, with the last question worth $ii,500. This allowed for a potential maximum bank of $10,000. For the second half of the daytime version, and too on the syndicated version, all values were doubled, making the maximum potential banking concern $20,000. The squad that eventually won the game played for their bank in Fast Money.

In 1994, with Richard Dawson returning as host, the circular's name was changed to the "Bankroll" round.[14] Although the goal remained of giving only the number-one answer, the format was modified to three questions from five, with only i member of each family participating for all three questions. The initial pale for each family unit remained the same ($2,500 in the get-go half of the hr and $5,000 in the second). Still, the value for each question was $500, $i,500 and $2,500 in the first half, with values doubling for the 2d half. This meant a potential maximum bank of $7,000 in the outset half and $14,000 in the second.[fourteen]

The Bullseye round returned for the 2009–2010 season and was played similarly to the format used from 1992 to 1994 on the syndicated version. Five questions were asked, worth from $1,000 to $5,000. However, each family was given a $15,000 starting stake, which meant a potential maximum of a $thirty,000 bank.

When Harvey took over as host, the Fast Money jackpot reverted to a apartment $xx,000.

Hosts and announcers [edit]

When Family Feud was conceived in 1976, Richard Dawson (then a regular panelist on the Goodson–Todman game show Match Game) had a continuing understanding with Mark Goodson that when the next Goodson–Todman game bear witness was in the planning stages, Dawson would exist given an audition to host it. Dawson had read in trade publications that a airplane pilot for a new show named Family Feud was in the works, and it was originally to be hosted by Star Trek player William Shatner (although since they were involved in the run-throughs, Geoff Edwards and Jack Narz, the latter of whom reputedly was Goodson's initial choice to host, were under consideration). Incensed, Dawson sent his agent to Goodson to threaten to present an un-funny, silent, and banal persona on futurity Match Game episodes if he was not given an audition for Feud.[15] Dawson was and so selected as host of the original ABC and showtime syndicated versions of Family Feud. As writer David Marc put it, Dawson'south on-air personality "cruel somewhere between the brainless sincerity of Wink Martindale and the raunchy cynicism of Chuck Barris".[xvi] Dawson showed himself to have insistent affections for all of the female person members of each family that competed on the show, regardless of age, kissing them, an human activity that attracted some controversy then amid viewers.[sixteen] Writers Tim Brooks, Jon Ellowitz, and Earle F. Marsh attributed Family Feud 'due south popularity to Dawson's "glib familiarity" (he had previously played Newkirk on Hogan'south Heroes) and "ready wit" (from his tenure as a panelist on Match Game).[2] The evidence's original announcer was Gene Woods,[17] with Johnny Gilbert and Rod Roddy serving as occasional substitutes.[18]

In 1988, comedian Ray Combs took over Dawson's role equally host on CBS and in syndication with Wood returning as announcer and Roddy and Art James serving in that role when Woods was not available.[18] Combs hosted the plan until the daytime version's cancellation in 1993 and the syndicated version until the end of the 1993–94 flavor. Dawson returned to the testify at the request of Mark Goodson Productions for the 1994–95 flavor.[nineteen]

When Feud returned to syndication in 1999, information technology was initially hosted by comedian Louie Anderson,[2] with Burton Richardson as the new announcer.[20] In 2002, Richard Karn was selected to take over for Anderson,[2] until he was replaced past John O'Hurley in 2006.[2] In 2010, both O'Hurley and Richardson departed from the testify. O'Hurley later stated that he left because he was resistant toward the bear witness's decision to emphasize ribald humor and wanted to proceed the show family-friendly.[21] Steve Harvey was later named the new host for 2010–11 season,[22] and announcements were made using a pre-recorded track of Joey Fatone'due south vocalisation.[23] In 2015, Harvey signed with ABC for the primetime reboot of Celebrity Family Feud, with Burton Richardson returning equally announcer. Rubin Ervin, who has been a member of the production staff as the warmup human being for the audience since Harvey took over, became the announcer from 2015–16 season.

Production [edit]

The get-go four versions of the evidence were directed by Paul Alter and produced by Howard Felsher and Cathy Dawson. For the 1988 versions, Gary Dawson worked with the bear witness as a third producer, and Alter was joined by 2 other directors, Marc Breslow and Andy Felsher.[18] The 1999 version's master staff include executive producer Gabrielle Johnston, co-executive producers Kristin Bjorklund, Brian Hawley and Sara Dansby, and managing director Ken Fuchs; Johnston and Bjorklund previously worked as associate producers of the 1980s version.[24] The show's archetype theme tune was written by an uncredited Walt Levinsky for Score Productions. The theme and cues for the 1994–1995 version was written by Edd Kalehoff and are based on the Walt Levinsky limerick. The themes used from 1999 to 2008 were written by John Lewis Parker.[24] The product rights to the evidence were originally owned by the production company Goodson shared with his partner Bill Todman, but were sold to their current holder, Fremantle, when it caused all of Goodson and Todman'south format itemize in 2002.[24]

Broadcast history [edit]

1976–1985 [edit]

Richard Dawson (left) and contestants on the pilot episode of Family Feud

Marking Goodson created Family Feud during the increasing popularity of his before game show, Match Game, which had set daytime ratings records betwixt 1973 and 1976, and on which Dawson appeared almost daily as one of its almost popular panelists. Friction match Game aired on CBS, and by 1976, CBS vice-president Fred Silverman, who had originally commissioned Match Game, had moved to a new position as president of ABC. The show, forth with a revised daytime schedule for the summer, was starting time announced by ABC at an almanac coming together in May.[25] The show premiered on ABC'southward daytime lineup at one:xxx p.thousand. (ET)/12:thirty p.m. (CT/MT/PT) on July 12, 1976. Because it faced the kickoff halves of two long-running and popular lather operas, CBS' As the World Turns and NBC's Days of Our Lives, Feud was not an firsthand striking. But a timeslot change several months later made it a ratings winner for ABC, and it somewhen surpassed Lucifer Game to become the highest-rated game show on daytime TV.

Due to the expansion of All My Children to 1 60 minutes in April 1977, the evidence was moved to xi:xxx/ten:30 a.m., equally the second part of an 60 minutes that had daytime reruns of Happy Days (later on Laverne & Shirley) as its lead-in. When the Dick Clark-hosted $20,000 Pyramid was canceled in June 1980, Feud moved a half-hour back to 12 apex/11:00 a.thou.[26] It remained the most popular daytime game evidence until Merv Griffin'due south game show Wheel of Fortune, propelled by a new, highly-popular concurrent syndicated evening version, surpassed information technology in 1984.[3] From May 8, 1978 until May 25, 1984, ABC periodically circulate hour-long primetime "All-Star Specials", in which glory casts from diverse primetime TV serial (mostly ABC ones) competed instead of ordinary families.[2] The popularity of the program inspired Goodson to consider producing a nighttime edition, which launched in syndication on September 19, 1977 with Viacom Enterprises as distributor. Like many other game shows at the time, the nighttime Feud aired in one case a calendar week; it expanded to twice a week in Jan 1979,[3] and finally to v nights a week (Monday through Friday) in the autumn of 1980, representing the first time that a weekday network game ran concurrently with a nightly syndicated edition. Dawson and Feud coasted for several years at the height, seen twice a solar day in much of the country. However, the viewing habits of both daytime and syndicated audiences began changing around 1984.[3] When Griffin launched Wheel 's syndicated version, starring Pat Sajak and Vanna White, in 1983, that evidence climbed the ratings to the betoken where it unseated Feud equally the highest-rated syndicated testify, even replacing it on some stations;[27] the syndicated premiere of Wheel 'due south sister bear witness Jeopardy! with Alex Trebek as host also siphoned ratings from Feud with its early (and surprising, given an unstable kickoff few months) success. With declining ratings (probably due mainly to its overexposure and viewers afterward tiring of the prove), and as part of a scheduling reshuffle with two of ABC's one-half-hour soaps, the show moved back to the 11:30/ten:30 timeslot in Oct 1984, as the 2d part of a ane-hour game show block with Trivia Trap (later All-Star Blitz) as its lead-in, hoping to make a dent in the ratings of The Cost Is Right, coincidentally another Goodson-packaged bear witness.

Despite the ratings decline, there was some interest in keeping the bear witness in production. In a 2010 interview, Dawson recalled a meeting with executives from Viacom about renewing the bear witness for one more than season after 1985. Dawson was growing tired of the grueling taping schedule and initially wanted to stop altogether. Afterward discussing the situation with ABC and Viacom, Dawson said that he would return for a last syndicated flavour of thirty-nine weeks of episodes only would non continue doing the daytime series. After this, Dawson did not hear from Viacom for approximately a calendar week and once they contacted him again, Dawson was told that Viacom was no longer interested in continuing the syndicated Feud across the 1984–85 season.[28] Viacom fabricated this official in Jan 1985 ahead of that year's NATPE convention, and within a few weeks, ABC, probably prompted by Viacom'southward decision, decided that it besides would non renew Feud for the 1985–86 flavour.[29] The daytime version came to an cease on June 14, 1985.[3] The final calendar week was taped a month prior, on May sixteen. Newspapers via Associated Press reported that this version was slated to terminate on June 28. However, for reasons undisclosed, information technology ended two weeks prior to that instead.[30] The syndicated version aired its last new episode on May 17, 1985, with reruns continuing to air until September of that yr.[3]

1988–1995 [edit]

Ray Combs in a publicity photo for Family unit Feud (1988)

Family Feud moved to CBS with Ray Combs hosting the prove on July four, 1988 at 10:00 a.thousand. (ET)/9:00 a.m. (CT/MT/PT), replacing The $25,000 Pyramid (which had aired continuously in that time slot since September 1982, except between January and Apr 1988, when Blackout took its place; CBS began evolution on Family Feud shortly afterward Blackout was canceled). Similar its predecessor, this version also had an accompanying syndicated edition which launched in September of that twelvemonth.

The CBS version started off with practiced ratings, particularly with women, but struggled to sustain that momentum. The changing mural of daytime television, with virtually networks giving more of their available daytime timeslots to syndicated programming, plus the turn down of game shows as a genre at the fourth dimension, began to hurt Feud, and many CBS affiliates dropped the program from their lineups. It moved to ten:30/9:30 in January 1991 to brand room for a short-lived talk prove starring Barbara De Angelis. At that time frame, it replaced the daytime Wheel of Fortune, which moved back to NBC after a two-yr run on CBS hosted by Bob Goen merely still featuring Vanna White.[2] In June 1992, the network version expanded from its original one-half-hour format to a full hr, and was retitled The Family Feud Challenge;[2] this new format featured three families per episode, which included two new families competing in the first half-hour for the right to play the returning champions in the second half. Early into the 5th season, CBS appear it would no longer plan the 10:00 a.one thousand. ET timeslot starting in September 1993 and return it to affiliates, effectively cancelling Feud. The Family Feud Challenge aired its final new episode on March 26, 1993, with reruns airing until September 10.[31] The syndicated Feud, meanwhile, remained in product and entered its sixth season in the fall of 1993.

At this bespeak, the syndicated Feud had been dealing with a consistent ratings downturn for several years. Although the series initially secured time frames in desirable hours (such as the prime number time Access hour), stations quickly found other programming, including tabloid news magazine programs A Current Affair, Within Edition and Hard Copy. The magazines drew college ratings (and in particular, younger, more desirable demographics). Some stations dropped the syndicated Feud outright, while others relocated it to lower-rated time frames such as overnights. The decline eventually resulted in the ratings bottoming out in 1992–93.

Distributor All American Television informed Mark Goodson Productions that, unless in that location was an uptick in the ratings or changes made to the program, it ceased distributing Family Feud at the end of the 1993–94 flavor. The responsibility for this was all in the hands of Jonathan Goodson, who had taken over his male parent's company when Mark Goodson died in 1992. Ane of the options considered was a host change, with Goodson executives and Goodson himself reaching a consensus to remove Combs from the show in favor of his predecessor, Richard Dawson.[xix]

This ran counter to his father's original 1988 decision, as Mark Goodson was loyal to Combs from the moment that he hired him and had refused to even consider Dawson, due to the trouble he caused for the production staff on the original series, notably a long-running animosity toward Howard Felsher. Many members of the original production staff were also working on the revival series and held lingering negative feelings toward Dawson, not wanting to work with him. Even so, Jonathan Goodson did not have the emotional ties to Combs that his male parent did, and felt that a change was necessary in order to go along the show in production.

After a rigorous staff meeting, Goodson offered Dawson a contract to render as host of the syndicated Feud, and the semi-retired Dawson agreed to return, nine years later on his somewhat acrimonious departure from the original. Combs was permitted to cease out the balance of the season, and, after his concluding episode that was recorded in early 1994, he left the studio without even saying goodbye to everyone.[19]

A revamped Family Feud returned for a 7th season in September 1994, with Dawson returning as the host. The prove expanded from xxx to sixty minutes, reinstated the Family unit Feud Claiming format, and did various other things to try to ameliorate ratings such as modernizing the set, featuring families that had previously been champions on the original Feud, and having more than themed weeks. Although Dawson did bring a brief ratings surge when he came dorsum, as the novelty wore off, the testify could not sustain information technology over the long term, and Feud came to a determination at the end of the season, with Dawson retiring permanently later on. Its final new episode aired on May 26, 1995, with reruns airing until September 8, ending a 7-year run. The evidence ceased product for nearly four years after repeated failures to come up to an agreement with various syndicators. Outside of the bear witness, former Family Feud host Ray Combs, whose life was falling autonomously due to financial ruin caused in large measure by the typecasting he incurred equally host of Feud, being unable to obtain other bear witness-business employment because of a drought at the time of other game shows, died on June two, 1996 by hanging himself in a Glendale psychiatric ward.

1999–present [edit]

Family Feud returned in syndication on September xx, 1999, with comedian Louie Anderson as the next host.[32] Three years afterward, Richard Karn took over the show. The format was changed to reintroduce returning champions, allowing them to appear for upwards to five days.[2] Anderson-hosted episodes continued in reruns that aired on PAX Television set/Ion Television. Karn hosted the bear witness for iv years until he was replaced by John O'Hurley in 2006 and Steve Harvey in 2010.

The show's Nielsen ratings were at one.5, putting it in danger of cancellation in one case again (every bit countless affiliates that carried the show from 1999 to 2010 aired information technology in daytime, graveyard or other depression-rated time slots). Since Steve Harvey took over the testify, ratings increased by every bit much as twoscore%,[33] and within ii brusk years, the show was rated at 4.0, and had become the fifth-most-popular syndicated plan.[34] Fox News' Paulette Cohn argued that Harvey's "relatability," or "understanding of what the people at domicile want to know," was what saved the evidence from counterfoil;[35] Harvey himself debated, "If someone said an answer that was and then ridiculous, I knew that the people at home behind the camera had to be going, 'What did they but say?' … They gave this respond that doesn't accept a shot in hell of being upwards there. The fact that I recognize that, that's comedic genius to me. I think that's [what made] the difference."[35]

Steve Harvey'south Family unit Feud has regularly ranked among the top x highest-rated programs in all of daytime telly programming and 3rd amid game shows (backside Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!); in February 2014, the prove achieved a 6.0 share in the Nielsen ratings, with approximately viii.8 1000000 viewers.[36] In June 2015, Family Feud eclipsed Wheel of Fortune, which had been on pinnacle for over thirty years, as the most-watched syndicated game show on television, and consistently began ranking amid the top three shows in all of syndication. The bear witness has had improved syndication clearances and meliorate timeslots. It has been ambulation in early fringe and prime access slots nationwide.[37]

Reruns of the Dawson-, Combs-, Anderson- and Karn-hosted episodes have been included amidst Buzzr's acquisitions since its launch on June 1, 2015.[38] In 2019, reruns of the Karn-hosted episodes started airing on Upwardly TV during the morning time hours.

Production of Family unit Feud was shifted from Universal Orlando to Harvey's hometown of Atlanta in 2011, first staged at the Atlanta Civic Center and later on at the Georgia World Congress Center. Harvey was besides originating a syndicated radio show from Atlanta, and the land of Georgia provided tax credits for the production. In 2017, product moved to Los Angeles Center Studios (later moved again to Universal Studios Hollywood and later still to CBS Studio Center) in Los Angeles to arrange Harvey's new syndicated talk bear witness Steve, returning production of the regular serial to Los Angeles for the first time since 2010.[39] [xl] [41] [42]

In November 2019, Harvey started production in South Africa for that country'southward version.[43] Information technology aired for the first time on Sunday, April 5, 2020. In conjunction, a website was launched, dedicated to the region to catch upwardly on previous episodes, submit entries and appoint from a local perspective.[44]

In March 2020, later on initially announcing that production would continue with no studio audience, Fremantle suspended product of all of its programs (including Family Feud) due to the onset of the COVID-xix pandemic. In August 2020, Family Feud returned to production, returning to Atlanta after several years in California and with health and rubber protocols (including social distancing and no studio audience) being enforced.[45] [46] [47] Since 2021, the series was filmed at Trilith Studios in Fayetteville, Georgia.[48]

Reception [edit]

Family Feud won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Game/Audition Participation Show in 1977 and 2019, Outstanding Directing for a Game Prove and the evidence has three times won the Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Game Evidence Host, once with Dawson in 1978 and twice with Harvey in 2014 and 2017.[49] [fifty] Feud ranked number 3 on Game Show Network (GSN)'s 2006 list of the 50 Greatest Game Shows of All Time,[51] and also on TV Guide 'due south 2013 list of the 60 greatest game shows e'er.[52]

Tara Ariano and Sarah D. Bunting, founders of the website Television Without Pity, wrote that they hated the 1999 syndicated version, saying "Requite united states of america archetype Feud every fourth dimension", citing both Dawson and Combs as hosts. Additionally, they called Anderson an "declared sexual harasser and full-time sphere".[53]

Since Harvey became host, the show has become notorious for questions and responses that are sexual in nature, with content frequently referring to certain anatomy or acts of intercourse.[54] This blazon of material has drawn criticism from viewers, including onetime NCIS actress Pauley Perrette, who in 2018 sent a series of tweets to Family Feud producers questioning why the prove had to exist "and then filthy."[55] [56] Dan Gainor of the Media Research Center, a politically conservative content analysis organization, suggested that the responses are in line with sexual content becoming more commonplace on goggle box.[55]

The popularity of Family Feud in the Usa has led it to become a worldwide franchise, with over 50 adaptations outside the The states. Countries that have aired their own versions of the show include Australia, Canada, France, Deutschland, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, the netherlands, New Zealand, the Philippines, Poland, Russia, Thailand, the United kingdom, Due south Africa, and Vietnam, among others.

Trade [edit]

Since the bear witness'southward premiere in 1976, many home versions of Family Feud have been released in various formats. Milton Bradley, Pressman Games, and Countless Games have all released traditional board games based on the show,[57] [58] while Imagination Entertainment released the program in a DVD game format.[59]

The game has been released in other formats by multiple companies; Coleco Adam released the beginning computer version of the show in 1983, and Sharedata followed in 1987 with versions for MS-DOS, Commodore 64, and Apple tree 2 computers.[60] GameTek released versions for Nintendo Entertainment System, Super NES, Genesis, 3DO, and PC (on CD-ROM) between 1990 and 1995.[61] Hasbro Interactive released a version in 2000 for the PC and PlayStation.[62] In 2006, versions were released for PlayStation 2, Game Male child Advance, and PC.[63] Seattle-based Mobliss Inc. also released a mobile version of Family Feud that was available on Dart, Verizon, and Cingular.[64] [65] [66] Glu Mobile later released a newer mobile version of Family Feud for other carriers.[67]

Most recently, in conjunction with Ludia, Ubisoft has video games for multiple platforms. The showtime of these was entitled Family Feud: 2010 Edition and was released for the Wii, Nintendo DS, and PC in September 2009.[68] Ubisoft then released Family Feud Decades the next year, which featured sets and survey questions from television versions of all four decades the bear witness has been on air.[69] A third game, entitled Family Feud: 2012 Edition was released for the Wii and Xbox 360 in 2011.[70] A quaternary game, produced by Ubisoft and developed by Snap Finger Click, was released for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and Stadia in 2020.[71]

In addition to the abode games, a DVD prepare titled All-Star Family unit Feud starring Richard Dawson was released on January 8, 2008, by BCI Eclipse LLC Home Entertainment (nether license from Fremantle USA) and featured a total of 43 segments taken from 21 special celebrity episodes from the original ABC/syndicated versions on its four discs,[72] uncut and remastered from original ii" videotapes for optimal video presentation and sound quality.[73] Information technology was reissued every bit The Best of All-Star Family Feud on Feb 2, 2010.[74]

International versions [edit]

See also [edit]

  • All Star Family Feud
  • Family Fortunes
  • Google Feud

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Works cited [edit]

Schwartz, David; Ryan, Steve & Wostbrock, Fred (1999). The Encyclopedia of TV Game Shows (third ed.). New York: Facts on File. ISBN0-8160-3846-5.

External links [edit]

  • Official website Edit this at Wikidata
  • Current Production website
  • Family Feud (1976) at IMDb
  • All-Star Family Feud Special (1977) at IMDb
  • Family Feud (1988) at IMDb
  • Family Feud (1999) at IMDb
  • Glory Family Feud (2008) at IMDb

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