Tom - funny you should mention it - apparently Ava duVernay has said she'll personally produce a game show for Burton to host. https://www.tvinsider.com/1009140/ava-duvernay-tv-show-for-levar-burton-to-host/
On Thursday, August 12, 2021 at 4:08:52 PM UTC-4 Tom Wolper wrote: > On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 9:01 PM daves...@gmail.com <daves...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> >> There have been some great hosts -- Tom Kennedy, Jack Narz, Monty Hall -- >> but Trebek is right up there with Cullen in that specific set of skills. >> > > As a regular Jeopardy watcher I have watched all of the guest hosts and > kept up with the news about the show. I haven't allowed myself to get too > emotionally invested in who gets the job because the job is to be a game > show host. If Trebek had become unable to host in the 1980s the producers > would simply have turned to Tom Kennedy, Wink Martindale, or Bert Convy. I > give Sony credit for milking the situation for all it's worth in a > marketing sense but the idea that Jeopardy is sacred and a new host has to > be a Nobel Laureate or something to get the job goes too far. The open > position was a game show host. > > Now let's start a grassroots campaign to have LeVar Burton replace Pat > Sajak as host of Wheel of Fortune. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/c914077b-bebd-4c40-8a41-ca7eedb07fd8n%40googlegroups.com.
