Looking at his CV on Wikipedia, he's not previously done an enormous amount of live TV. The '101 Ways to Leave A Game Show' thing was pre-recorded, as were many of his other shows.
The notable exception was T4 which is a live weekend strand on Channel 4 aimed at tweens and teens that has been churning out presenters for years now. I guess it's the UK equivalent of getting your break on the Disney channel. That was all live, but pretty relaxed in the scheme of things. I suspect that making one of those big live productions look seamless to viewers is a lot harder than we perhaps give presenters credit for. Actually, I've always found him perfectly likeable. But music-based reality shows leave me cold, and I certainly didn't bother with the US X-Factor. Adam On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 3:53 PM, David Lynch <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 09:26, John Edwards <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Steve who? > > He hosted 101 Ways to Leave a Game Show. > > > > Specifically, the BBC version thereof, and I thought he was decent but > not exceptional at that job. What little I saw of him on X-Factor made > it seem like he wasn't really able to handle keeping track of all the > moving pieces that one has to track when trying to bring a live TV > show in on time and he ended up getting a little bit lost at times. > That surprised me somewhat, because I thought that the show where he > first broke in to the business in the UK was live. > > -- > David J. Lynch > [email protected] > > -- > 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 > -- 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
