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In case you haven’t noticed, broadcast TV programmers have gone game hunting again. Since reality shows seems to be wearing out their welcome, the networks are rebooting old game shows and launching new ones. Like the reality show craze, it’s about creating mindless content and spending less money to do it. You can blame it on
Jane Lynch — just kidding, sort of. But the success of “Hollywood Game Night” certainly contributed to getting other network programmers thinking (often an arduous task) about game shows in the last couple of years.
Prime-time game shows have populated TV forever, of course, but the 21st century version of the evening game show often involves getting a bona fide celebrity to host reboots, like Alec Baldwin for “Match Game” and Anthony Anderson for “To Tell the Truth.” We’ve even seen game shows designed for Millennials in “@ Midnight,” hosted on Comedy Central by Chris Hardwick, who has moved on to the new NBC leviathan, “The Wall,” coproduced by LeBron James.
Jimmy Kimmel gets into the act with tonight’s premiere of “Big Fan ”at 10 on ABC. It sprouted from the “Who Knows …?” segments on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” and will pit a celebrity — Matthew
McConaughey in tonight’s episode — against someone who’s a fan of theirs. Andy Richter hosts and Kimmel created it. The new season of “The Artful Detective” launches on Ovation at 7 p.m.
The “Fashion Police” ride herd on the hits and misses at Sunday night’s “Golden Globe Awards” at 8 p.m. on E. “Timber Creek Lodge” moves to a new time slot of 8 p.m. on Bravo, followed by a new two-hour episode of “Vanderpump Rules ”at9.
Reelz raises issues, but not the ship, of course, with the two-hour special “Titanic: Sinking the Myths” at 9 p.m.
Viceland premieres “Hate Thy Neighbor: America’s Far White ”at 10 p.m. Comedian Jamali
Maddix talks to groups whose purpose is spreading hate. W. Kamau Bell got there first, of course, with CNN ’s“United Shades of America,” although he doesn’t only talk to hatemongers.