It was a crayon. Sarah Foss said it was the only thing he could use whose sound wouldn’t be picked up by his mic.
On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 2:39 PM Jim Ellwanger <[email protected]> wrote: > Alex's system was that he had, basically, a printout of all the clues on > the board on one large sheet of paper, and he would use a marker or grease > pencil to cross out each clue after it was used. (If I recall correctly, if > you go to a taping, you can see one of these used sheets on display in the > studio lobby.) I'd obviously be interested to know which guest host > couldn't handle that. > > > On Aug 26, 2022, at 11:33 AM, Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: > > From this week’s episode: > > They announced last week that the Tournament of Champions will start on > October 31. They got feedback from concerned viewers that the November 8 > episode will be pre-empted for election coverage. The producers decided to > air a special episode on that day instead. There was an issue with the last > tournament with the first to win three games format. TV listings and DVRs > gave away the actual number of games played in advance. This happened > during the prime time GOAT Tournament. They said for this ToC the listings > will read “Game 4 (if necessary), etc. And since the tournament will air in > Jeopardy’s usual time slot DVRs are going to record it anyway. > > Most of the episode was an interview with the co-head writers. The > interesting things I got out of that were in the old days when the board > was made up of placards, they kept category names simple so they could > reuse the placards. That’s why potent potables would come up so often. When > they switched to video screens they could be much more flexible with > category names. > > The other thing was that Alex came up with a way to keep track of what was > going on in the game. If you recall watching him, he would make a check > mark on something on his lectern after each response. The producers had > already been working with a vendor for a new system and when one of the > guest hosts proved simply unable to use Alex’s system they stopped tape, > put in the new system, and started tape again. They never went back to the > old system. > > -- > 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/CAJE-FiH2kd0VCTq8oVK%2BzZn4vsp7wN-RfgEiebCAquNhKz_KUQ%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiH2kd0VCTq8oVK%2BzZn4vsp7wN-RfgEiebCAquNhKz_KUQ%40mail.gmail.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/DAB0676D-997A-4ADD-9DB1-B2F5672B1208%40ellwanger.tv > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/DAB0676D-997A-4ADD-9DB1-B2F5672B1208%40ellwanger.tv?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/CAJE-FiE_yLvjY6JKD4b14iGZDA5Bivxc6%3D%3DLJ5-Zn89YEb6JBw%40mail.gmail.com.
