On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 4:06 PM Jim Ellwanger <train...@ellwanger.tv> wrote:
> 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"). > A few of my in-laws recently appeared on “America Says”; they did not do well > Come to think of it, a lot of the people on Dave's list got their start on > radio... Larry Elder for "Jeopardy!" host? > In the late 1990s, when I was a runner in Hollywood, I quite enjoyed both Larry Elder and Dennis Prager. Neither were as loud and shouty then as they are now, nor were they as overtly political. They cared about social issues, and I often disagreed with both men, but their shows were entertaining and the hosts had charisma. They were funny and they weren’t mean… people who disagreed weren’t “the enemy” back then. When Barack Obama emerged, politics in media turned nasty. I don’t blame Obama for it, but his rise to prominence was a clear tipping point. There were always Rush Limbaughs and even Wally Georges (I adored Wally’s TV show, by the way), but they were the exception, not the rule. All this is my way of saying Larry Elder was a good host once, and 20 years ago he might’ve gotten my vote. But now he’s just a bitter, angry old man, and I have no stomach for that in politics anymore. > > > On Sep 17, 2021, at 3:58 PM, 'David Bruggeman' via TVorNotTV < > tvornottv@googlegroups.com> 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, davesik...@gmail.com < > davesik...@gmail.com> 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 <pga...@gmail.com> > 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 <twol...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 11:45 PM 'Dave Sikula' via TVorNotTV < > tvornottv@googlegroups.com> 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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