Original sentence: A DVD set of 30 episodes of Blankety Blanks was released in late 2005.Beginning in January 2009, The Comedy Channel began screening back to back episodes on Friday nights.Blankety Blanks initially ran from 1977 to 1978 in a two-season run.Both of these versions followed the same format as the Kennedy version, but with a top prize of $5000 (Audience Match amounts were $500-$250-$100, equaling those in the beginning of the US 1970's run of Match Game).In October 1978 the series came up for renewal.In any event Kennedy informed the Network he would not be continuing with the series and so it ended in late 1978.It ran from 1977 - 1978 and was based on the American game show Match Game.Kennedy observed that the ratings were down from the earlier figures, although the earlier figures were unusually high, ratings in the 40s, and recent figures in the 30s range were still extremely high.The Network was keen to renew the series.There was a 1985 version hosted by Daryl Somers on the Nine Network but it had little success
Edited sentence: A 1985 version hosted by Daryl Somers on the Nine Network had little success.A DVD set of 30 episodes was released in late 2005.Beginning in January 2009, The Comedy Channel began screening back-to-back episodes on Friday nights.Blankety Blanks initially ran from 1977-1978 in a two-season run.Both of these versions followed the same format as the Kennedy version, but with a top prize of $5000 (Audience Match amounts were $500-$250-$100, equaling those from the 1973-1982 American versions of Match Game).For the similar British game show, see Blankety Blank; for the unrelated American show of the same name, see Blankety Blanks (US game show).In October 1978 the series came up for renewal, and Ten was keen to renew the series.In any event, Kennedy informed Ten that he would not be continuing with the series and so it ended in late 1978.It ran from 1977-1978 and was based on the American game show Match Game.Kennedy observed that the ratings were down from the earlier figures; although the earlier figures were unusually high (ratings in the 40s), recent figures in the 30s range were still extremely-high