Drew Carey is fine on The Price Is Right, but Jeopardy is a more dignified and intellectual show, closer to the old GE College Bowl than the other game shows on the air today. A comedian or comic actor just won't work. The next host should have the same type of on-air demeanor as Art Fleming and Alex Trebek -- more quiet and intelligent, while not being boring.
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'Jeopardy' host Alex Trebek reveals he has Stage 4 Pancreatic Cancer
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Drew Carey is fine on The Price Is Right, but Jeopardy is a more dignified and intellectual show, closer to the old GE College Bowl than the other game shows on the air today. A comedian or comic actor just won't work. The next host should have the same type of on-air demeanor as Art Fleming and Alex Trebek -- more quiet and intelligent, while not being boring.
How long is the taping schedule? Do they go constantly or tape for 3 weeks, break and tape again?
I thought the general pattern was a two day (5 shows per day) schedule, but that could be different. Yes, admittedly a Cooper type host would be a schedule challenge, even were he interested. More an example of a style perhaps, or something would need to be worked out to accommodate the schedule.
They do...on Sunset Blvd.
He's hosting Dancing With The Stars.
Now there's an idea. She's smart, and has news, talk and game show experience.
Not sure if at age 65 she wants to move to LA. She did Millionaire in NYC.
True, and she has a husband with MS who is only going to need more care. I forgot she was still New York-based.
I think you are right. The next host will likely come from the TV news world.
It's a serious show and the host needs to play it kind of straight. Hosts who come
from the comedy world like Drew Carey and Wayne Brady would find the format
too restricting.
It's a serious show and the host needs to play it kind of straight. Hosts who come
from the comedy world like Drew Carey and Wayne Brady would find the format
too restricting.
I think a Wayne Brady would be a good Wheel host, if he left Deal. And he’s worked with incoming producer Mike Richards, so there’s that. Wheel, with all due respect, has become bland as bland can be for quite some time. It needs someone to shake the rust off post Sajak.
I’m thinking now someone like a Pat Kiernan (did I butcher his name?) could fit the Jeopardy bill. He did a GSN original and was pretty solid, even if the show was a little odd. I think he could be the style that feels comfortable to longtime fans, particularly under the difficult circumstances. There may be others like him at the local level somewhere (a la the weatherman who went on to host Wheel for all these years).
Within the national news ranks, names that I think would have a compatible style (setting aside interest, making the jump to a quiz show, location, etc) could include John Berman, Dan Harris, Savannah Guthrie and Erin Burnett. I’m sure there are others who could fit the bill.
I’m thinking now someone like a Pat Kiernan (did I butcher his name?) could fit the Jeopardy bill. He did a GSN original and was pretty solid, even if the show was a little odd. I think he could be the style that feels comfortable to longtime fans, particularly under the difficult circumstances. There may be others like him at the local level somewhere (a la the weatherman who went on to host Wheel for all these years).
Within the national news ranks, names that I think would have a compatible style (setting aside interest, making the jump to a quiz show, location, etc) could include John Berman, Dan Harris, Savannah Guthrie and Erin Burnett. I’m sure there are others who could fit the bill.
Tell me about Wheel. The game is getting more boring and bland that it used to. Nearly every night, same ole' result. Puzzle writing is getting lame and stupid at times. 'Unbelievable Location'? 'Quart of Soy Milk'? 'Truffle Butter'? This is what I've been seeing in the past few weeks...
Some of the folks over on the Buy-A-Vowel boards are saying that audience ushers are strictly refraining people from cheering in the audience. Last time someone spun a $3,500...crickets. 15 years ago you'd hear hoots and loud cheering. What is this...a Jeopardy! taping?
http://buyavowel.boards.net/thread/11017/september-23-2019-recap
Anyways, back to the topic at hand re: Alex.
Some of the folks over on the Buy-A-Vowel boards are saying that audience ushers are strictly refraining people from cheering in the audience. Last time someone spun a $3,500...crickets. 15 years ago you'd hear hoots and loud cheering. What is this...a Jeopardy! taping?
http://buyavowel.boards.net/thread/11017/september-23-2019-recap
Anyways, back to the topic at hand re: Alex.
I get it’s tough to not repeatedly repeat (ha) puzzles. But dear lord, they’re coming up with phrases no one says, things that are barely things, and events that barely are. Pop culture references seem to be frozen circa 1989. The wheel itself is such that the suspense of many spins is which value between $500 and $700 will be hit. Sajak can barely lay claim to even reaching the level of phoning it in. The weekly themes are tired and executed with all the excitement of vanilla pudding.
Frankly I’m more surprised the staff monitoring the audience isn’t being tasked with poking people with pointy sticks to keep them awake.
Frankly I’m more surprised the staff monitoring the audience isn’t being tasked with poking people with pointy sticks to keep them awake.
I'm the one who posted the story about getting yelled at for cheering. And I also got dirty looks from the staff for muttering "No..." when somebody called a wrong letter with a lot of money.
As for repeating puzzles, that happens basically every day. For example, last night's bonus puzzle was "BARELY ABOVE A WHISPER". In January 2016, they did "JUST ABOVE A WHISPER" (it was not solved). Also in late 2018, they did "QUART OF ALMOND MILK", then the first week of this season (and very shortly after a rerun of the former episode) swaps "ALMOND" for "SOY". Fans should not be able to solve the puzzles for the wrong reasons. You would never see Harry Friedman approve a Final Jeopardy! that is a simple re-wording of a clue from three seasons ago.
The $1,000 Toss-Up puzzles that are always themed to the week also make me cringe. e.g.: Theme is "Let's Eat!", first Toss-Up is a Phrase: "I'M REALLY REALLY HUNGRY".
I'm glad Harry's out, because he was just letting Wheel die while letting Jeopardy! thrive. He took zero advantage of J!'s skyrocketing ratings during James Holzhauer's run to cross-promote Wheel, and part of the reason J! has out-popularized Wheel this decade is because young people love to share pics of their TV screens when they see a clue about Drake or 4Chan or Pokemon or whatever. Meanwhile, Wheel has never done a puzzle with the word POKEMON in it in its entire history (although it is rumored that "PIKACHU" was a bonus puzzle in the early 2000's). Seeing "FLOPPY DISK" as a puzzle in 2019 gave me secondhand embarrassment. It's also worthy to note that Wheel no longer gets nominated for the Outstanding Game Show award at the Daytime Emmys, but literally every other game show does (Millionaire got the nod over Wheel despite its cancellation that year). I'm guessing it's because Harry doesn't bother to submit it since he figures it would never win over J!
Very sad to hear about Alex, especially after he was seemingly improving. I met him in 2011 when he came to my school (Fordham U) as his son was attending there at the time. A class act.
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It’s interesting. I don’t think the producers so much “let” Jeopardy thrive vs let’s Wheel atrophy so much as Jeopardy is a format that lends is somewhat more immune to becoming stale. Categories have always been a mix of “classic” and modern material. Tweak the design elements periodically, and it keeps on ticking. It’s naturally fast paced and less repetitive than the core Wheel game.
Wheel seemed to be treated similarly, some tweaks here and there, but it needed more given the game is slower and more repetitive. For crying out loud, even the wedges on the wheel don’t look like they’ve changed in 30 years.
When they’ve done the clips from other versions, many have an energy, an atmosphere, the US version lacks. Not to say go from 0 to 100 MPH in one burst, but...sheesh....ramp it up a little.
Wheel seemed to be treated similarly, some tweaks here and there, but it needed more given the game is slower and more repetitive. For crying out loud, even the wedges on the wheel don’t look like they’ve changed in 30 years.
When they’ve done the clips from other versions, many have an energy, an atmosphere, the US version lacks. Not to say go from 0 to 100 MPH in one burst, but...sheesh....ramp it up a little.
Don’t get why they would tell the audience not to cheer or show emotion when something exciting happens a lot of shows have people hired to get people to do just that hype people I believe they are called. I could see them not wanting something like that in jeopardy because they are trying to recall information about questions Wheel rob maby you could provide some more insight as to why wheel producers run the show like this.
Well, Jeopardy!'s meant to be a subdued, but fast-paced game. But we still of course hear the audience applaud contestants finding the Daily Double (even if they go on to get it wrong), so it's sad to watch classic episodes of Wheel and hear everyone stop for a moment to celebrate the Wheel landing on $1,000 (even if they end up calling a wrong letter), yet today, someone could spin $5,000 five times in a row and it would be treated like $500.
When I was at WOF, I was given two excuses. First, I cheered when someone landed on the Million Dollar Wedge, and was told during the break, "You can't react like that because it looks like you're showing favoritism to one contestant". It was literally the first turn of the game. Then on another episode taped that same day, someone hit the $3500 twice in a row (which led to him winning over $20K in that round alone, which is more than what many winners finish the whole game with) and was told by someone else during the break, "When you scream like that, it messes with the audio." This makes no sense given how loud audiences were in the past, especially when they used to film on location. And look at how crazy Price is Right's audience cheers for things like "Here's $500 for getting the price exactly right", and giving standing ovations for someone winning $1,000, while Wheel's audience just sits and claps politely when people win the million.
That being said, although I've never been to a Jeopardy! taping myself, I read that the audience actually does not clap during the credit roll; it's all added in post-production. I can definitely see Jeopardy!'s staff shushing someone screaming "YEAAAAAHH!!" at a successful true Daily Double, but again, it's a much different atmosphere than someone spinning the top amount multiple times in a row on WOF.
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