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Post by fg on Aug 11, 2021 20:43:15 GMT -5
Also announced is Mayim Bialik doing primetime specials and potentially a spinoff. Well Mike Poochie still gets the main job, but of course they keep the famous person for primetime specials, I suppose for ratings. And the prime time J! would go against shows with "name" hosts (like Press Your Luck w/Elizabeth Banks, for instance). It vaguely reminds me of the days of 70s and 80s syndication, where the "nighttime" versions of shows got a different host. (Bill Cullen on Pyramid, Dennis James on Price, etc.) EDIT: As I feared, there are still people going "there" as far as why Levar wasn't chosen. Look, there were guest hosts from all walks of life who did not get the job either in favor of the guy already on J!'s staff. I hope who hosts a game show is not the hill certain people want to die on. (plus, other J! fans think there were just better guests than Burton. Moot point because EP Richards and all that, though.) And right now is a great time for diverse hosting in the genre...you have Michael Strahan and Wayne Brady, who both took over for broadcasting legends like Dick Clark and Monty Hall and are at the helm of two of my favorite game revivals in general. And one of which I got to be part of this past winter (I was in the virtual audience in Let's Make A Deal...the show aired I think in February). Steve Harvey...well I am not a fan of the content Family Feud now has, but he's made the show a big hit now in syndication. Elizabeth Banks is doing a competent job in Peter Tomarken's shoes too. If Mike Poochie ever gets fired, he can say: “I must go now. My planet needs me.”
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Aug 19, 2021 20:32:52 GMT -5
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Aug 19, 2021 20:36:03 GMT -5
Yeah I mean I don't have much of a horse in this race but it sounds more and more like he's more trouble than he's worth. Between the conflict of interest in being a show producer and now the racist stuff, they're going to have to pick someone else.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Aug 19, 2021 20:42:27 GMT -5
Yeah I mean I don't have much of a horse in this race but it sounds more and more like he's more trouble than he's worth. Between the conflict of interest in being a show producer and now the racist stuff, they're going to have to pick someone else. “After an exhaustive search, it turns out I’m the best person for the job I’m trying to fill” Mike Richards It’s been shady as f*** since the second they declared him host.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Aug 19, 2021 20:53:24 GMT -5
Yeah I mean I don't have much of a horse in this race but it sounds more and more like he's more trouble than he's worth. Between the conflict of interest in being a show producer and now the racist stuff, they're going to have to pick someone else. “After an exhaustive search, it turns out I’m the best person for the job I’m trying to fill” Mike Richards It’s been shady as f*** since the second they declared him host. Allegedly he was not part of the discussion as to who was involved. Which I could actually see happening as the other producers know who he is... Whatever, I don't really have a dog in the race... I thought most of the hosts did a good job... Sadly, I don't think Levar did a great job in his one week as host... as much as I was looking forward to him.
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Post by James Fabiano on Aug 19, 2021 21:02:09 GMT -5
Given how he felt about the direction he took Price is Right, I wonder what David Downs would say about this.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Aug 19, 2021 21:02:36 GMT -5
“After an exhaustive search, it turns out I’m the best person for the job I’m trying to fill” Mike Richards It’s been shady as f*** since the second they declared him host. Allegedly he was not part of the discussion as to who was involved. Which I could actually see happening as the other producers know who he is... Whatever, I don't really have a dog in the race... I thought most of the hosts did a good job... Sadly, I don't think Levar did a great job in his one week as host... as much as I was looking forward to him. At the end of the day though he's still a producer who works with the other producers. It was always going to be a bad look and there were always going to be people who doubted nepotism wasn't involved.
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Post by Cyno on Aug 19, 2021 21:11:05 GMT -5
www.theringer.com/tv/2021/8/18/22631299/mike-richards-jeopardy-host-search-process-past-commentsWhew this is some pretty damning stuff. Goes into details about the stuff mentioned above. Granted, the complaint about LeVar Burton only getting one week is off because a number of hosts only got one week near the end of the guest host run. The article makes it come off like it only affected him. I really can't see a way forward for Richards to be host without seriously alienating a lot of people. Might have to go with whatever Plan B was.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Aug 19, 2021 21:29:01 GMT -5
Anyway replacing Alex was gonna have a rough time. It’s best he walk away while the getting is good.
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Post by Renslayer on Aug 20, 2021 9:11:23 GMT -5
Grand opening, grand closing
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Aug 20, 2021 9:19:30 GMT -5
Was Ken Jennings not offered the job or did he just not want to do it?
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Post by Brood Lone Wolf Funker on Aug 20, 2021 9:27:53 GMT -5
Was Ken Jennings not offered the job or did he just not want to do it? He has his own messed up things he said such as there's nothing sadder than a hot person in a wheel chair
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2021 10:09:07 GMT -5
Honestly, I don't even think he intended it but Ken Jennings came off as a bit condescending to the players. Probably isn't the best idea to get someone smarter than the actual players to host.
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Post by Hit Girl on Aug 20, 2021 10:18:58 GMT -5
Levar should host it but as Geordi La Forge, with a VISOR.
During each show, the faint hum of a warp core will be heard.
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Aug 20, 2021 10:31:59 GMT -5
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Post by Killah Ray on Aug 20, 2021 10:33:18 GMT -5
Just give Levar a blank check to kill all of the backlash and be done with it….
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Post by TWERKIN' MAGGLE on Aug 20, 2021 10:33:48 GMT -5
This dude should never have been in the running. Like who the f*** is this tool?
Whoever suggested him, if he really was suggested by someone other than himself as claimed, should be fired and mocked out of the industry along with Mike Richards.
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Post by James Fabiano on Aug 20, 2021 10:44:35 GMT -5
Just give Levar a blank check to kill all of the backlash and be done with it…. And yet I'm sure people would say that that would feel like overcompensating for something. (probably the same who DON'T want Burton for disagreeing about certain people or things, or the same who are somehow using The Culture to describe this Richards mess) Just do who did the best job. Since someone liked Mayim out of the celebrity hosts the best, find a compromise where she could do both...I guess.
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Post by carp (SPC, Itoh Respect Army) on Aug 20, 2021 10:53:36 GMT -5
Was Ken Jennings not offered the job or did he just not want to do it? He has his own messed up things he said such as there's nothing sadder than a hot person in a wheel chair I've seen people try to go after him repeatedly; they ALWAYS bring up this comment and only this comment. It never really goes anywhere, and it doesn't seem like there's much other ammunition. He doesn't have similar baggage. His biggest issue now is the optics of replacing one white guy with another... after one of the people deciding has been recorded saying he roots for white men to be TV hosts.
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Post by Cyno on Aug 20, 2021 11:01:52 GMT -5
With a new round of guest hosts coming in, I hope Laura Coates and Ben Mankiewicz get their fair shots at it. Trebek personally liked both as possible successors.
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