I think "dog and pony show" is the best description. Had the intention been to
audition actual candidates, we probably would have seen a completely different
set of candidates. Does anyone think Sanjay Gupta or Anderson Cooper or Robin
Roberts was actually going to quit their day jobs to be the host? Yes, it's
prestigious (in its way), but it was more of a series of stunts than anything
else.
The pool of game show hosts is getting pretty shallow. Other than Carey, Sajak,
and Harvey, is there anyone who does it regularly? (I don't count the hosts of
the ABC reboots; that's more stunt casting.) Brooke Burns on "The Chase" isn't
bad, but there just isn't the supply (Cullen, Rayburn, Kennedy, Narz,
Martindale, Ludden, Trebek, Convy, Regis) there used to be.
--Dave Sikula
On Friday, September 17, 2021, 07:30:16 AM PDT, PGage <[email protected]>
wrote:
Well, if the main criteria was just a host who would not make long time
viewers stop watching they could have skipped the whole dog and pony show and
just installed the most popular weatherman from Iowa City.
I am not saying there is a good reason to ban white men from hosting Jeopardy,
just that even with that show’s older, more conservative average audience, a
good host has to have more than that.
On Thu, 16 Sep 2021 at 9:41 PM Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote:
On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 11:45 PM 'Dave Sikula' via TVorNotTV
<[email protected]> wrote:
I'm finally catching up with his first episode. I don't find him coprorate;
he's just kind of bland. Having seen the other candidates (except for Burton),
I'd rank him near the bottom. He's outwardly pleasant enough, but doesn't
really run the game; cetainly not as well as Jennings and Cohen did. For that
matter, neither did Bialik (I'd rank her low, too), but that ship has sailed.
Given enough time and practice he, or anybody, would rise to be an acceptable
host. What this week showed me was that if Richards were the permanent host I'd
still watch the show.
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