I have to agree with your assessment. People don't tune into a game show to
see the host. Price is Right has done well with Drew Carey, but people
don't tune in to see him, they tune in to see the contestants win. Same
thing with Let's Make a Deal; people don't tune in to see Wayne Brady, they
tune in to see the contestants win(and on both, sometimes they win big).
ABC did the Pyramid revival just right, with a host who stays pretty much
out of the way, like Dick Clark or Bill Cullen did.
On Friday, May 15, 2020 at 10:06:04 AM UTC-4, Tom Wolper wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 1:18 AM 'Dave Sikula' via TVorNotTV <
> tvor...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> The impression I got of Alex (who seemed to like me; YMMV) during the Q
>> and A stuff with the audience was that, if he was asked a question he liked
>> (something he hadn't been asked a lot or about his interests, charity work,
>> etc.), he was personable and charming. If he was asked something he'd been
>> asked a million times ("Do you really know all the answers?"), he could be
>> something of a dick.
>>
>> KO's not a bad choice, but I'd think he's too polarizing. Snuffleupagus
>> seems like too much of a lightweight, and I find Cooper to be just
>> bland--and polarizing (and also someone who'd probably rather not leave New
>> York). I'd expect to either see Ken Jennings or a woman.(If this were
>> thirty years ago, I'd go with someone like Linda Ellerbee,)
>>
>
> Anybody from politics or news would be too polarizing. For all we think of
> Olbermann's positives, there is a substantial number of people who would
> choose not to watch or immediately turn off the show if they saw him host.
> He also has a reputation for not sticking in one job for too long. And the
> problem with any high profile host is that you don't want people to tune
> just to watch the host. Alex never distracts from the game. Choosing a high
> profile host who already has another job means paying top dollar and having
> a host who always has going back to the old job in the back of their mind.
>
> In one of the many Jeopardy! articles I have read someone pointed out that
> Alex's best quality comes from how he acts at the end of the show. Of the
> three contestants, two people who have been through a process to show how
> good they are at playing the game have to go home. A lack of compassion at
> that moment or any condescension would be a host's undoing.
>
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