I’m not enough of a Jeopardy! watcher to have a vested interest, but I’ve worked on several game shows, and interacted with several former and current hosts on social media. Pat Sajak and Chuck Woolery are two abysmal human beings. I have nothing nice to say about their politics, their attitude, or their off screen behavior… but they are good if not great hosts. Dick Clark was a penny-pinching, micro-managing control freak (and if his personal life was subjected to 2021 type of scrutiny, whoa)… but he was an exceptional host. By contrast I thought Howie Mandel was one of the kindest, funniest, most insightful people I ever worked with, but he made Deal or No Deal unwatchable to me.
If the hope is to find a fully “woke” person who also happens to be a good game show host, I’m sure they are out there. I’m sure there are hosts out there who aren’t openly sexist or discriminatory. But I also don’t know how a standard talent search goes about vetting for that. I’m not saying the vetting shouldn’t occur… it absolutely should… but it’ll never be enough to catch every email or text or social media post or obscure podcast comment. On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 7:08 PM 'Dave Sikula' via TVorNotTV < [email protected]> wrote: > I can't -- or maybe I can -- believe they'd let him stick around after all > that mishegoss. If he's too toxic to host, I'd think he'd be too toxic to > EP. Although, maybe it's too tough to do now that they're back in > production. > > If I were the good people at Jeopardy, I'd also use this as an opportunity > to also dump Bialak and her brain-medicine/anti-vax persona and start > completely fresh. > > I think my feeling about everyone else have been made clear by this point > ... > > --Dave Sikula > > On Friday, August 20, 2021 at 3:51:08 PM UTC-7 Brad Beam wrote: > >> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On >> Behalf Of *Kevin M. >> >> *>*The real question remains: Will he remain as EP? >> >> >> >> According to *USA Today, *yes. (Also, the article’s author has her own >> candidate to host: Aisha Tyler.) >> >> >> https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2021/08/20/jeopardy-and-mike-richards-how-all-went-wrong/8209913002/ >> >> >> >> _ _ >> >> |_>|_> Brad Beam- Belle WV >> >> |_>|_> http://www.facebook.com/74bmw >> >> >> > -- > 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/b006639c-db04-473b-a9aa-d15e58229157n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/b006639c-db04-473b-a9aa-d15e58229157n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- 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/CAKgmY4D3zn1SvvUjHeJOdvg5_Z98%3Dj3danjRSZebXxmDy0%2By2Q%40mail.gmail.com.
