Game Show Revivals that need to happen soon

6. Russian Roulette

Is it mean to say that watching people fall through a hole in the floor is fun? ... Not at all! Russian Roulette is, as host Mark L. Walberg would say at the end of every program, "the ultimate game of chance." Four contestants compete over the course of three rounds, trying the accumulate the most money by answering a series of trivia questions. If a contestant gets a question wrong, they lose all their money and must play "Russian Roulette," meaning they pull a handle in front of them and hope that one of the drop zones doesn't land on their spot. During each round, someone is eliminated from the game, but whoever survives the main game goes on to play the bonus round where surviving one final game of "Russian Roulette" will net the contestant $100,000.

Russian Roulette originally aired from 2002 to 2003, so technically this wouldn't be a 21st century revival in the same sense as a show from the 70s and 80s would be since Russian Roulette first premiered in the 21st century. However, 15 years have passed since the last new episode, so fans of Russian Roulette have been waiting a good amount of time to watch the show which gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "down and out." From December 2011 to January 2012, NBC aired a winter filler game show called Who's Still Standing, which was basically a over-produced rip-off of Russian Roulette, so a revival of the original floor-dropping game show would nice so that any bad taste still left in the mouths of game show fans from Who's Still Standing will officially be wiped away.

Despite Russian Roulette being a GSN original when it first aired, for the show's sake, let's hope GSN has no involvement if it is revived. The reason being is that the top prize on the original Russian Roulette was $100,000, but GSN currently has a long streak of original programs that have pathetic top prizes, most of them being $10,000. Although only two contestants won the $100,000 in the show's history and most players ended up winning less than $10,000 anyway, at least the show gave contestants the opportunity to win 100 grand. Plus, if they didn't win the top prize they still usually ended up with more money than most contestants on GSN game shows do today. Russian Roulette, with it's catchy theme song and sound effects, is probably the best GSN original game show in the network's almost 24 year history. It's about time to hear Mark L. Walberg say "watch your step" yet again.

Brad Fact: Before becoming a successful television actor, Jorge Garcia, best known for starring in the ABC series Lost, was a contestant on Russian Roulette. He made it to the final round of the main game, but I guess the show predicted his future endeavors, because Jorge "lost" the game.