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The Networks: Primetime Game Review

I don’t know what I thought running a TV network would be like, but I thought it would be more stressful than this.

The Networks: Primetime, Allplay’s new edition of Gil Hova’s 2016 The Networks, puts you in the C-suite of a television network, where you get to make all the big decisions. What shows to run, who to cast, and who to take on as an advertiser, it’s all up to you. Every round, players take turns buying cards that represent the various programs, actors, and advertisers from the market and programming their lineup.

You have three blocks of programming available, and different shows attract different audience levels at different times. Law & Odor does its best work for the network during the Daytime, filling up slots left and right while you reap the advertising revenue. Quiver yearns for the attention of Primetime. American Samurai Warrior is better suited to Late Night, when all the inebriated college students get home and need something to veg out in front of.

A table jam-packed with cards, each bearing humorous illustrations of actors, sets, and television programs.

Your actors and advertisers too are best suited to particular types of programs. You’re welcome to cast the Cult Sci-Fi Star in anything you…

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