Favorite TV Game Show Host? (1 Viewer)

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But when it comes to favorite game show host, its Steve Harvey, and it isn't even close..
 
WhoDatPhan78 said:
They should let Vanna host and make Ryan turn the letters for a few years.
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that would be awesome.

Does anyone else remember when they gave Pat a late night talk show? it was HORRIBLE..lol
But i think having Rush Limbaugh on there put the nail in the coffin...
 
bigdaddysaints said:
that would be awesome.

Does anyone else remember when they gave Pat a late night talk show? it was HORRIBLE..lol
But i think having Rush Limbaugh on there put the nail in the coffin...
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Couldn't have been worse than Magic Johnson's talk show. That was truly dreadful
 
bigdaddysaints said:
But when it comes to favorite game show host, its Steve Harvey, and it isn't even close..
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I generally like Steve Harvey but there is something about him that rubs me the wrong way sometimes
 
Good article on trend of having already famous hosts
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NEW YORK (AP) — When producers of “Wheel of Fortune” named Ryan Seacrest — probably the most ubiquitous man on entertainment television — as its next host this week, it surprised virtually no one.

The idea that Sony Pictures Television would appoint someone relatively unknown as the figurehead of one of its most valuable properties was far-fetched. But it wasn’t always that way for a genre of television that minted such celebrities like late “Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek, Bob Barker of “The Price is Right” and current “Wheel of Fortune” emcee Pat Sajak.

With Sajak’s impending retirement, after the show’s next season, it’s the end of an era: Game shows are now the provenance of the already famous.

Why is Pat Sajak the last of his breed?

Back in 1984, a much younger Sajak was pictured on the cover of TV Guide alongside Wink Martindale, Monty Hall, Bill Cullen, Jack Barry and Barker.

Each of the other men was known primarily as broadcast television game show hosts.



Now, so is Sajak. He has a handful of other entries on his resume, disc jockey (many of his ilk also got their start in radio) and television weatherman among them. But he was 35 years old when he started hosting “Wheel of Fortune” and will be 77 when he leaves next year. He’ll be forever known for standing onstage at the wheel, with Vanna White at the board.

“He’s kind of the last of the old school,” said Adam Nedeff, author and researcher for the National Archive of Game Show History at the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, New York.

Game shows were once shown live, or taped with hardly any interruptions, so the skill of an experienced broadcaster used to those conditions was prized, Nedeff said. Dick Clark would need it when taping 10 episodes of “The 10,000 Pyramid” in a day.

Trebek similarly had a strong pedigree of television hosting, much of it in Canada, before he became host of “Jeopardy!”

Where’s the pipeline now?…….

apnews.com

Who wants to be a game show host? These days, you already have to be famous

Ryan Seacrest earned a plum gig this week, replacing the retiring Pat Sajak as host of “Wheel of Fortune.”
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anyone watching the Floor with Rob Lowe hosting?

Lowe is fine but I'm enjoying the show a lot more than I thought I would
 

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