I guess the game show host niche has been replaced by the reality show niche over the last few decades. I would not have minded Phil Keoghan
On Fri, 17 Sep 2021 at 3:29 PM [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > -- > 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-FiEQod2k2DGuextaXyYYnfVxm04wrtM8D%3D1wqdLDABdn7w%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiEQod2k2DGuextaXyYYnfVxm04wrtM8D%3D1wqdLDABdn7w%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- > Sent from Gmail Mobile > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/tvornottv/DYIzZFsUOC4/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkY%2BhwXdUVcoy7AmujFGHC8yDtc9dJqKx05xMvFqBDfDA8g%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkY%2BhwXdUVcoy7AmujFGHC8yDtc9dJqKx05xMvFqBDfDA8g%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- > 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/1409963997.1033071.1631917717056%40mail.yahoo.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/1409963997.1033071.1631917717056%40mail.yahoo.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- 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/CAKGtkYJkWGGyjc55DaosmZSoWq%3DQ7D1xNh2qWfyY3y8CoNggmw%40mail.gmail.com.
