Last year, I wrote a blog complaining about the Daytime Emmys discontinuing telecasting the game show categories.

I was going to continue my boycott of watching the Daytume Emmys until I saw Alex Trebek being interviewed on the pre-show red carpet.

So it turns out that my boycott was lifted and that the Game Show categories have returned to the telecasts. They do listen to the fans!

For those who missed it, Cash Cab won again while Meredith Vieira took home her 2nd Daytime Emmy for hosting Millionaire.

When CBS announced that after 72 years (15 on radio/57 on television). Guiding Light would be extinguished, I thought "what would CBS do now?"

They could've expanded the Early Show to 3 hours, or expand Bold & Beautiful to an hour (making it the last of the 30 minute soap opera), or take Days of Our Lives away from NBC, putting them in bankruptcy.

Instead, CBS will give game shows another chance with the 3rd daytime revised Let's Make A Deal. This time, the show's an hour long & Wayne Brady (Don't Forget The Lyrics) is tv's new big dealer. LMAD joins Password, Price Is Right & Match Game of having being on all 3 networks. CBS had LMAD before, as part of Gameshow Marathon back in 2006 when Ricki Lake hosted.

There hasn't been two or more network daytime game shows since 1994 when NBC had Caesar's Challenge. So game show fans felt like the Castaways of Gilligan's Island. And when October 5 rolls around, it'll be like this scene on a Gilligan tv-movie...

SKIPPER: After 15 years, we've finally been rescued!

GILLIGAN: Rescued.

GINGER: Rescued.

MARY ANN: Rescued.

MR. HOWELL: Rescued.

MRS. HOWELL: Rescued.

PROFESSOR: Rescued.

(There's a footnote to this; back in 2000, NBC did have plans to have Concentration back as soon as the 2000 Summer Olympics were over, but scrapped that idea in favor of a 3rd hour of the Today Show. That also would've been my birthday present as well [October 2]).

August 15 would mark another memorable day as I got to see Tony Lucca in concert @ the House of Blues in Dallas, TX.

Tony got his start on MMC from 1991-95. Had Malibu Shores on NBC in 1996. Then decided to stop acting to be a musician. He has 5 independent CDs under his belt.

The concert was awesome! Tony plays the same electric guitar I have (except his is an Epiphone & mine's a Yamaha). After the set, I got a chance to talk to him as well as taking a few pics & even autograph my sheet music to "More Than Words" (a song he did with JC on MMC).

When we parted, I quoted, "I'll see you real soon. Why, because I like you!" Didn't want to end the pun singing "M-O-U-S-E" (LOL).

Hear him sing & play the guitar! As another famous Tony would say, "He's GRRRRRRRRRREAT!"