Grant Denyer confirms ‘Family Feud’ is over ... for now

SURVEY says: Finished. Grant Denyer has confirmed that the Channel 10 show has wrapped up.

GRANT Denyer has confirmed that Family Feud is wrapping up.

Rumours surfaced on the weekend that the show was being rested but nothing was official until Denyer made his announcement on 2DayFM Breakfast with Em, Grant & Ed this morning.

“It’s obviously been a huge success for myself and for Ten for four years,” Denyer said. “We only thought we’d get two years out of it so it was really lovely to stretch it to four.”

Denyer will have hosted 1200 episodes of the show when it stops airing on TV and suggested one of the reasons the show, which has struggled in the ratings lately, has come to an end is because Channel 10 thrashed the show.

“We’re probably guilty, if anything, of driving it into the ground a little bit too early,” he said on radio.

“Six days a week, twice a day, plus All Star episodes, we might have squeezed that lemon a little bit too much.”

Denyer credited the show with not only breathing life back into his TV career but also getting Channel 10 back into the ratings game.

“It came along at a time when I was looking for something new ... and it kind of rebirthed me,” he said.

“It obviously reinvigorated that 6pm timeslot [on Channel 10] which was dead for them for about five years.”

But the end of Family Feud doesn’t mean Denyer won’t be seen on TV anymore.

He told his radio co-hosts that Channel 10 want him to do some “big new projects” which he described as “bright, shiny, new and exciting”.

According to TV Tonight, one of those projects could be an Aussie version of Pointless, a UK quiz show which currently airs on the ABC.

A Network Ten spokesperson told news.com.au: “Family Feud has been an important part of our schedule for the past four years, but we feel it is time to rest the show.

“It will be put on hold later this year and we will be announcing an exciting new game show very soon. We will also have some exciting news about Grant Denyer’s new show on TEN soon.”

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