It's pretty obvious that you didn't pay a lot of attention to English grammar while in those few days in school. I am totally out of breath from reading your last post.
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Will network daytime game show ever make a full comeback?
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It's pretty obvious that you didn't pay a lot of attention to English grammar while in those few days in school. I am totally out of breath from reading your last post.
May the spirit of Bill Cullen forgive you. There was no one better than Bill.
I agree. I listened to Wink on the radio and watched him on TV and he was a smooth professional on both but it was Cullen, with his folksy charm and humor, that also gets my vote as "no one better".
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Wink says the same thing about him.
Before he passed the record the late Mr. Cullen had held for most different game shows hosted, Wink used to say there was no one other than Bill Cullen he would want to be in second place to.
Wink Martindale is the same pleasant gentleman in person as he is on camera. I consider myself privileged to count him and his wife Sandy as friends.
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It's pretty obvious that you didn't pay a lot of attention to English grammar while in those few days in school. I am totally out of breath from reading your last post.
That's because that post consisted of three run-on sentences masquerading as a paragraph.
I'll take "Things I Failed To Learn In Elementary School" for $80, Art.
....or game shows.
I hate to channel Avid Listener, or that similar jackass that posts on Radio Insight (let's just call him "Chuckles"), but the OP really has no clue on not only how the business has changed and evolved, but also how things could never go never to what they were. That's not keeping things in their proper perspective...something unfortunately I see far too often in a multitude of life's other scenarios.
Believe me, as a child of the 1980s and '90s, I enjoyed watching game shows growing up (perhaps my favorite genre of television, besides sports), but I know that Bob Barker isn't coming back, nor can we resurrect Richard Dawson and/or Ray Combs to host "Family Feud" again.
To answer the question...I just don't see it happening, especially given the climate of the broadcasting business--more stations aren't spending as much on programming as they use to, and are either replacing those syndicated slots with more local news, adding extra runs of existing shows, or giving way to infomercials. Hell, just be lucky we still got "Let's Make a Deal", "The Price is Right", "Feud", and "Celebrity Name Game".
Believe me, as a child of the 1980s and '90s, I enjoyed watching game shows growing up (perhaps my favorite genre of television, besides sports), but I know that Bob Barker isn't coming back, nor can we resurrect Richard Dawson and/or Ray Combs to host "Family Feud" again.
To answer the question...I just don't see it happening, especially given the climate of the broadcasting business--more stations aren't spending as much on programming as they use to, and are either replacing those syndicated slots with more local news, adding extra runs of existing shows, or giving way to infomercials. Hell, just be lucky we still got "Let's Make a Deal", "The Price is Right", "Feud", and "Celebrity Name Game".
Sure game show legends such as Bill Cullen, Allen Ludden, Peter Tomarken, Jim Perry are all gone from this world, but if we still had game shows on network daytime television in this day not only would we be seeing Drew Carey and Wayne Brady we could also be seeing Tom Bergeon, Todd Newton, Jimmy Kimmel, Meredith Viera, George Gray, Ryan Seacrest, Alfonso Rivera, Mike Richards, Mike Catherwood and Billy Gardell all be on their way to joining the likes of Bill Cullen, Allen Ludden and others as game show legends. It's a shame that talk shows have taken away something that I have wanted since I had graduated from high school in 1996, knowing that all of those game show hosts of today could all be admired in game show greatness by now.
Game shows were the best part of being sick enough to stay home from school. I realize they weren't supposed to be children's programs, but any kind of game on TV appealed to kids, and the rules of most of the games were easy to understand. My favorites were Concentration (with Hugh Downs), Password (with Allen Ludden), the original Match Game (with Gene Rayburn before he became a leering double-entendre machine) and all of Bill Cullen's shows -- Press me for a favorite of his and I'd probably choose Eye Guess. I even had the home versions of Concentration and Password!
You say you graduated HS in 1996, which makes you 37 or 38. You are in the middle of The Sacred Sales Demos[sup]TM[/sup]. If more folks your age had the same view you did, and were available to watch, daytime game shows would come back. But that's just not gonna happen since most people your age work for a living during the day, and as such, won't be watching. That's why Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy run in late afternoon or early prime time, and are successful doing so.
But daytime TV is for stay-at-home moms/housewives, background noise for those who work from home, retirees that don't (or can't) get out much (I'm getting too much into that category, unfortunately), and the unemployed, not active people in their late 30s.
OK, you guys have convinced me to include Bill Cullen in my favorites. I guess I always liked Wink because he seemed more "big-time", less folksy, but you are right Cullen was one of the greats. In fact, some have compared Drew Carey's style and look to Bill. A compliment.
kids aren't in the market for walk-in bathtubs or life insurance and most are too old (or not old enough) for diapers
But daytime TV is for stay-at-home moms/housewives, background noise for those who work from home, retirees that don't (or can't) get out much (I'm getting too much into that category, unfortunately), and the unemployed, not active people in their late 30s.
what about househusbands or 18-49ers on SSI? they can still afford cheap stuff like fast food and domestic beer
If kids were interested in games shows, Nickelodeon may not have closed their Orlando studio
Househusbands are probably watching ESPN. Anyone on SSI has a medical reason to be on it, and as a result should limit or even abstain from the use of bad food and alcohol.
Was that more an issue of Viacom hemorrhaging money that they closed the studios? That and Nickelodeon is another network that lost it's way somewhere along the line. Seems to be an issue with Viacom networks.
Cullen also had to overcome some serious medical issues -- childhood polio and a car wreck in his youth -- and still became the greatest game show host of all time. He usually sat at his podium from start to finish because he had trouble walking.
Don't forget reverse mortgages--especially the ones promoted by Henry Winkler!
And maybe a special appearance by Alex Trebek regardless of the game show--for Colonial Penn life insurance.
Watched the few episodes of Concentration on YouTube with Hugh Downs and Jack Narz. I miss the prize boards on the pocket doors, the Wurlitzer organ, the spartan set, the genial hosts and that wonderful marvel of electro-mechanical engineering. (whirrrr-CHUK!)
I watched it regularly as a kid in the summertime and sick days.
When I watch it today, I sadly realize that our society's attention span would never tolerate Concentration today. It's about as exciting as watching paint dry.
I used to eat smashed up crackers and milk as a substitute for breakfast cereal as a kid. Put a little sugar on it, it was great. I tried it as an adult and thought to myself, "What the heck was I thinking? This is terrible!"
I watched it regularly as a kid in the summertime and sick days.
When I watch it today, I sadly realize that our society's attention span would never tolerate Concentration today. It's about as exciting as watching paint dry.
I used to eat smashed up crackers and milk as a substitute for breakfast cereal as a kid. Put a little sugar on it, it was great. I tried it as an adult and thought to myself, "What the heck was I thinking? This is terrible!"
Nickelodeon Orlando closed because they didn't need them anymore with the Nicktoon boom and the talent was located in SoCal but Sunset Blvd isn't a family friendly place like Universal Orlando or even Universal Hollywood (It's UCS for them)
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