Let the unscripted games begin

June 16, 2008 Up until last week, the date was merely notable for staging a face-off between Week 2 of NBC's top-rated summer series "America's Got Talent" and the premiere of ABC's new reality show "I Survived a Japanese Game Show" -- whose lead-in is the premiere of obstacle course reality competition "Wipeout." Fox yanked the lower-rated of its duo, "Truth," from 8 p.m. and scheduled its strongest possible show in its place: another episode of "Hell's Kitchen," which thus far has been the summer's highest-rated series. The network said Friday that it will move up its premiere of "Celebrity Family Feud" to June 24 at 8 p.m. The move should increase the number of viewers fed into "Talent."

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