On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 9:26 PM 'David Bruggeman' via TVorNotTV < [email protected]> wrote:
> The elephant in the room with the ratings is that the show was on a steady > decline throughout the guest host period. Even with an 18-game (and > counting) winner to end the season. Slight upticks for the Tournament of > Champions, Aaron Rodgers, and Bill Whittaker. > > Maybe this process stanched the bleeding ratings, but I doubt Mr. Empty > Suit will do better when he starts next month than he did back in February. > > Whatever Mr. Burton did to hurt you, Dave, I'm sorry. > The ratings always decline when summer comes. It's just not fair to compare the ratings of January/February with July/August no matter who the host was. It's summer, prime time is in reruns/burnoffs/AGT BB and fewer people tune in. Having a chance to do stuff in the evenings after what we went through last year was probably also a factor. I saw a lot of the media writers and twitter chatter about how LeVar Burton was the ideal host for Jeopardy, even before he hosted, and I just ignored it. It's another reminder that reality doesn't come from media writers and twitter folks. I still think it would be an epic troll to start a petition to have him become the new host of Wheel of Fortune. I liked Joe Buck's week. He didn't treat it as an audition and it made him looser and it gave him good energy. I wouldn't want to see him as a host for more than a week but I enjoyed the job he did. -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiGL1fk2YmPTJRZ%3DbcD6Bmpc8B65woaMp2uK-mkrdUdc5Q%40mail.gmail.com.
