Dave mentioned Brooke Burns, who hosted GSN's "The Chase" and is now hosting GSN's "Master Minds." (The host of ABC's version is Sara Haines, probably best known for "The View.")
GSN's other originals are hosted by a variety of people you've never heard of (such as Dylan Lane on "Chain Reaction") and people who you may have heard of, but aren't capital-letter Game Show Hosts like most of the people on Dave's list (Joey Fatone, "Common Knowledge"; John Michael Higgins, "America Says"). Come to think of it, a lot of the people on Dave's list got their start on radio... Larry Elder for "Jeopardy!" host? > On Sep 17, 2021, at 3:58 PM, 'David Bruggeman' via TVorNotTV > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don't know if this counts as doing it regularly, but Craig Ferguson is > still doing "The Hustler" and went a few seasons hosting "Celebrity Name > Game." > > Is the 'talent' on GSN just lousy, or people we wouldn't know if we didn't > watch? > > David > > On Friday, September 17, 2021, 03:28:43 PM PDT, [email protected] > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I think "dog and pony show" is the best description. Had the intention been > to audition actual candidates, we probably would have seen a completely > different set of candidates. Does anyone think Sanjay Gupta or Anderson > Cooper or Robin Roberts was actually going to quit their day jobs to be the > host? Yes, it's prestigious (in its way), but it was more of a series of > stunts than anything else. > > The pool of game show hosts is getting pretty shallow. Other than Carey, > Sajak, and Harvey, is there anyone who does it regularly? (I don't count the > hosts of the ABC reboots; that's more stunt casting.) Brooke Burns on "The > Chase" isn't bad, but there just isn't the supply (Cullen, Rayburn, Kennedy, > Narz, Martindale, Ludden, Trebek, Convy, Regis) there used to be. > > --Dave Sikula > > On Friday, September 17, 2021, 07:30:16 AM PDT, PGage <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Well, if the main criteria was just a host who would not make long time > viewers stop watching they could have skipped the whole dog and pony show and > just installed the most popular weatherman from Iowa City. > > I am not saying there is a good reason to ban white men from hosting > Jeopardy, just that even with that show’s older, more conservative average > audience, a good host has to have more than that. > > On Thu, 16 Sep 2021 at 9:41 PM Tom Wolper <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 11:45 PM 'Dave Sikula' via TVorNotTV > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > I'm finally catching up with his first episode. I don't find him coprorate; > he's just kind of bland. Having seen the other candidates (except for > Burton), I'd rank him near the bottom. He's outwardly pleasant enough, but > doesn't really run the game; cetainly not as well as Jennings and Cohen did. > For that matter, neither did Bialik (I'd rank her low, too), but that ship > has sailed. > > Given enough time and practice he, or anybody, would rise to be an acceptable > host. 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