GSN Graduates With 'Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?'

By R. Thomas Umstead
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GSN (Game Show Network) made its second big announcement in as many days as it has secured rights to the former Fox network game show Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?

GSN will air 90 episodes of the Twentieth Television series, produced by Mark Burnett beginning Nov. 6, according to network officials.

Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader, in which adults attempt to answer elementary school questions, will air in five-hour blocks on Sunday nights from 7 p.m. to midnight.

The announcement follows on the heels of the network's appointment of former Lifetime, Oxygen and Bravo programming executive Amy Introcaso-Davis as executive vice president of programming.

Introcaso-Davis, who will report to GSN president & CEO David Goldhill, will be responsible for developing and acquiring programming designed to grow GSN's core audience of adult females, according to officials.

R. Thomas Umstead
R. Thomas Umstead

R. Thomas Umstead serves as senior content producer, programming for Multichannel News, Broadcasting + Cable and Next TV. During his more than 30-year career as a print and online journalist, Umstead has written articles on a variety of subjects ranging from TV technology, marketing and sports production to content distribution and development. He has provided expert commentary on television issues and trends for such TV, print, radio and streaming outlets as Fox News, CNBC, the Today show, USA Today, The New York Times and National Public Radio. Umstead has also filmed, produced and edited more than 100 original video interviews, profiles and news reports featuring key cable television executives as well as entertainers and celebrity personalities.