One of the depressingly-enduring myths of programming/web development is that people in the field can work 60-70 hours a week without a problem. What happened was that, in the early days, the people who got into it were (and I say this with total love) freaks of nature who could do that because they're freaks of nature. But the overlords went "Well, if they can work *everyone* should be able to work 60-70 hours a week. Except for study after study proving that it doesn't work: people, in general, can only do about 40-50 hours a week (if that).
I say only partially tongue-in-cheek that everything that's gone wrong with game shows in the past two decades is because when Millionaire took off like a rocket, everyone thought "See: you don't need a traditional host to host a game show!" Which conveniently omits that the host was Regis Philbin: a freak of nature. And they assumed that everyone's a freak, when, in fact, they aren't. On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 10:36 AM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < [email protected]> wrote: > Letterman compared him to the best, and Variety added their chat (not from > Donz) from 9/17/01... > > > https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/regis-philbin-david-letterman-late-show-appearances-1234716700/ > (link) > > Tom Wolper, to PGage, today (7/26): >> >> Regis had a rare talent of being high energy and not self conscious when >> he was on camera, no matter if he had something prepared or he had to talk >> spontaneously. Almost everybody gets self conscious when they see the red >> light on a TV camera and they might need a few seconds to get beyond it and >> start talking. Regis could just go without a second thought. That's what >> made him a good talk show host and especially a good fill-in talk show >> guest. If he didn't have anything to promote or any reason to be in the >> news it didn't matter. Just bring him on the show and let him go for a >> segment. >> > > B > > > -- > 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/1d14aeb4-491a-47cd-b6b5-d91d008c9bf7o%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/1d14aeb4-491a-47cd-b6b5-d91d008c9bf7o%40googlegroups.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/CABru7%2BckC3PUkF5%3DF6PDCdw6LcKQ%3DYxXGmcf1_j1AP37h3r_CQ%40mail.gmail.com.
