On Jul 13, 11:45 pm, M-D November <[email protected]> wrote: > I also happen to think that Wayne Brady could do a really good job on > LMAD; he's a natural entertainer and quick-witted without being > insulting. I just wonder who could succeed Dick Clark on Pyramid > (yes, I'm pretending the Donny debacle didn't happen) - you really > need an old-school MC who can control the game. The thing you DON'T > need on Pyramid is an entertainer; that's not the say the host can't > be funny - Clark was funny in a Jack Benny sort of way...the humor > happened around him, and he played it off as the hapless man in the > middle. You need someone with that kind of quality to host Pyramid, > and for the life of me, I'm drawing a blank on who that could be. > (I'll say this much - the audition need only consist of one scripted > line: "HERE is your first subject. READY? GO!")
According to a post on BuzzerBlog (http:// buzzerblog.flashgameshows.com/), two pilots have been shot for "The $1,000,000 Pyramid" - one hosted by Tim Vincent of "Access Hollywood," the other hosted by actor Dean Cain. They've also posted photos of the set; it's clearly patterned on the 1970s set but with audience seating on the sides of the stage, so audience members will be visible during the main game play. To Mark J.: Yes, I agree that Steve Beverly's status as a conservative fuddy-duddy is unimpeachable. Even though I'm not a fan of "Big Brother" either, I found his reactionary condemnation of it last week said more about his own narrow-minded taste than it did about the show. And his column on the death of Michael Jackson was almost laughable; let's just say that Steve is more of a Lawrence Welk guy and leave it at that. But I still value Steve as a resource for areas of television history that are pretty much forgotten everywhere else. Most obituaries for Ed McMahon mentioned little more than "The Tonight Show" and "Star Search"; Steve's obituary for Ed intelligently and authoritatively evaluated Ed's unfortunate track record as a game show host in the 1960s. And much of Steve's latest newsletter is devoted to the history of Jack Benny's game show appearances. Where else would we have found out the fascinating tale of how Benny *almost* appeared on "To Tell the Truth," or what Benny told Monty Hall over lunch? Most of today's entertainment reporting barely remembers anything before "Seinfeld," so Steve, who knows all the minutiae and can discuss it with insight, is always worth reading. -Tim --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
