"America's Bible Challenge" Debuts as GSN's No. 1 Show of All Time
From the GSN Pressroom:
GSN’s highly anticipated original series The American Bible Challenge garnered the network’s highest delivery in its 17-year history with 2.3 million total viewers for the night and 1.7 million total viewers for its series premiere at 8 pm ET on Thursday, August 23rd.
The American Bible Challenge outperformed the previous record by over half a million viewers and solidified itself as a destination program by posting triple-digit gains from its strong lead-in across all demos (“Family Feud” hosted by Steve Harvey). . . .
“The best-selling book of all time is now GSN’s most-viewed program of all time, which proves that consumers are yearning for fun, family-friendly entertainment,” said Amy Introcaso-Davis, Executive Vice President of Programming and Development, GSN. “We are incredibly proud of this show and are happy that it connected with so many viewers.”
"America, a heavily-Christian nation, is clearly friendly to Bible-based content," Billy Hallowell writes at The Blaze. "This very well may be what drove the show’s initial success. Mixing the world’s most popular book with a game show format -- and adding in [Jeff] Foxworthy as a host -- has, thus far, proven a recipe for success."
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