On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 11:30 AM David Lynch <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Nov 7, 2018, at 2:02 PM, Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > The main part of a game show host's role is to bond with the audience. > The contestants come and go while the host is there every night (or day). > Trebek, Sajak, and White all bond with an older audience. If Sony was > looking to build an audience for the next ten or twenty years rather than > hold on for the next five, now would be a good time to introduce younger > hosts. > > As someone who’s still in the 18-to-35 demographic for a few more weeks, > I’ll point out that Alex, Pat, and Vanna and their respective shows have > been around for our entire living memory. They’ve got the same televisual > comfort food thing going on that sustained The Price Is Right after Bob > Barker turned into a grouchy old man who occasionally forgot the rules to > games that had he had been hosting for decades. I think the public response > if it was perceived (accurately or not) that any of them had been pushed > out would be worse than the damage done by keeping them on. > That would depend on the perception created. If the host(s) announce that they are ready to retire/move on to other things, it might go smoothly. If the story goes around that they are being pushed out it would be different. Of course we can't know what the state of syndicated TV will be in a few years and Sony might not be interested in a retool if they think the ad market will shrink by the end of the new contracts. -- 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]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
