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“Everyone go home, Mike quit as host.” Sounds really promising for his EP tenure.
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Iron Crowned posted:The flip side of this is that this is a very public gently caress up on his part now, and unless he goes full scorched earth, it would not look great for him to gently caress over the next host.
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Aug 20, 2021 19:52
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Interesting new turn of events: Mike Richards Steps Down As Host Of ‘Jeopardy!’ Into Reduced Role As Buzzer 
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I now feel much better about eventually resuming the audition process. You know, once the border opens back up again. ...at this point I think my time has run out and I'm gonna have to do the online test again, aren't I?
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Aug 20, 2021 20:27
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Mike "I just wanted to bbe a moderator" Richards.
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Aug 20, 2021 20:41
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Someone at Fremantle was to spread the chaos https://youtu.be/OoQpiQYESgE
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cartoons123 posted:Someone at Fremantle was to spread the chaos Started reading the comments before he appeared on stage. One of them was "big Zack Morris energy" and now I can't unsee it.
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Aug 20, 2021 22:47
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Sirotan posted:Started reading the comments before he appeared on stage. One of them was "big Zack Morris energy" and now I can't unsee it. I feel like Zach Morris would have more energy
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Aug 20, 2021 23:08
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Iron Crowned posted:I feel like Zach Morris would have more energy It's alright, cause he's saved by the bell
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Aug 20, 2021 23:11
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I honestly don’t really care who they pick after this besides like Dr. Oz. Balik has lovely opinions but doesn’t seem like an interpersonal rear end in a top hat like Richards and she was fine hosting. She’s not my top choice, but not worth no longer watching Jeopardy over like with Richards. I think Jennings is going to probably going to get it because the narrative that was coming out wasn’t just that Richards sucked, but that Jennings was the very clear heir and it was stolen from him.
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Aug 21, 2021 00:51
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I'm concerned that Sony will be listening to the crowd and make a kneejerk reaction to placate them rather than go based on merit. Ken was ok but there are better choices even if Alex seemingly made him his pick on his deathbed. There all still calls to make LeVar the host. That means the loudest fans never saw his performance.
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Aug 21, 2021 01:17
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He got one day of taping.
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Aug 21, 2021 01:24
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Island Nation posted:There all still calls to make LeVar the host. That means the loudest fans never saw his performance. No we just watched through the end of the week where he settled in and fixed comparatively minor issues that are clearly easily remedied by even a small amount of experience.
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Aug 21, 2021 01:24
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Groovelord Neato posted:He got one day of taping. So did George Stephanopoulos, Robin Roberts, David Faber, and Joe Buck though?
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Aug 21, 2021 01:30
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As a general rule it's not good for an executive producer's job longevity when they start popping up in news headlines or having the general public know their names.
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Aug 21, 2021 01:32
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mearn posted:So did George Stephanopoulos, Robin Roberts, David Faber, and Joe Buck though? Aren't those people all currently or very recently on air personalities.
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Aug 21, 2021 01:37
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Here's a podcast interview with Claire McNear regarding her article and the surrounding fallout (it's right at the beginning of the episode, so you don't need to skip ahead or anything). No big bombshells that most people following this won't already know, but it was nice to hear it all summed up and to get a little more about the process of putting it together and how it correlated with the contacts she has at Jeopardy. She talks a lot about how morale has been really low behind the scenes at the show lately. It's the first time I've heard that Mike Richards was in the earpiece of all the guest hosts directing their performances as the show was ongoing. I knew he was the one actually guiding them and directing their performances, but I didn't realize it was on such a moment to moment level like that. She did also mention that she's been working for awhile on the affect the guest hosts had on the contestants this season, pointing out that until Matt it was very rare to have more than a two-game champion with any of the hosts. Should be an interesting read when it drops.
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Aug 21, 2021 01:59
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Wonder if he made Levar gently caress it up on purpose.
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I hope this gives the producers the opportunity to totally change direction and pick someone the fans actually want. The choice of Richards and Bialik seems like they did a ton of focus group testing and picked the averages that no actual people actually wanted, they just weren't hated by anybody. Regarding Laura Coates, I think it's fine that they don't put a ton of weight behind Alex Trebek's specific recommendation for his replacement. His job was host, not producer. Your company isn't going to just hire your buddy, they're going to hire who they think is the best person for the job.
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Aug 21, 2021 06:44
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Who knew that Jeopardy would get its own George Lazenby? I dunno this seems kinda unfair to George Lazenby lol Iron Crowned posted:Mike "I just wanted to bbe a moderator" Richards. lol classic
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Aug 21, 2021 07:13
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I'm sure this isn't an original thought, but they should have the guest hosts vie for the job through an actual Jeopardy tournament. I may or may not be suggesting this because I personally want Ken to get the gig. I think the host should at least be capable at the game too.
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Aug 21, 2021 14:37
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:I dunno this seems kinda unfair to George Lazenby lol Yeah, I should have specified 'in terms of being a one-off'. I don't think Lazenby had these sort of skeletons in his closet.
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Aug 21, 2021 16:01
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What's funny to me right now about this whole debacle is, being a gameshow host is what he wants to do, and he's likey to have successfully blacklisted himself from it now. Had be not been so backhanded about the process and pushed himself through, no one would have went looking for skeletons. He could have instead picked literally anyone else as host, then did fill-ins for whenever they couldn't make it. At that point he'd at least have that experience on his resume for when either a new show or host was needed. Instead he got greedy and flew way too close to the sun and we see what happened.
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Aug 21, 2021 16:25
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I am incredibly happy that Mike Richards ruined his dreams. It kicks rear end.
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Aug 21, 2021 16:42
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Iron Crowned posted:What's funny to me right now about this whole debacle is, being a gameshow host is what he wants to do, and he's likey to have successfully blacklisted himself from it now. To me the absolute funniest part is he also probably would have gotten away with it too if it wasn’t for the fact that he showed his whole rear end on a loving Price is Right podcast that he ran for two years.
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Island Nation posted:I'm concerned that Sony will be listening to the crowd and make a kneejerk reaction to placate them rather than go based on merit. Ken was ok but there are better choices even if Alex seemingly made him his pick on his deathbed. I think the real mistake that they can make here is looking at Alex as if there was some profound magic power that made Alex this uniquely qualified host. The truth was that there wasn't. Trebek was an affable journeyman gameshow host with a nice enough demeanor who projected intelligence. I listened to a Podcast the Ride episode with Mo from Guts and the hosts talked about as a kid that she seemed like this official referee instead of a theme park employee moonlighting on a children's show. I think Trebek had that feel. Jeopardy more than any other game show feels like a major league sport. It feels official and authoritative, and Trebek projected that. And I think Sony is freaking out about how you find someone to host the show for the next ten or twenty or thirty years who can accomplish that. But as Alex said, he was never the star of the show. The only quality that Alex had that you need to make sure the next host has is respect for the show. That's it. It's why I don't dislike Katie Couric like so many others did. Her 'gee wiz, you guys are so smart!' attitude was different and may not be the ideal host, but it was still ultimately about respecting the game as not just some other game show, but an actual impressive feat. And for the most part, I think almost any of the guest hosts they've had have that respect because it's Jeopardy. I think even Balik has that respect even if she has lovely beliefs--but so did Alex if we're being honest. That's what made Richards the worst choice besides being a scumbag. I think outside of Dr. Oz, he was the only guest host who actively doesn't respect and has actively disrespected jeopardy. He demonstrated that when he took time from the show to turn what essentially amounted to a workplace acquaintance's beautiful final signicant message to his fans into his little catchphrase. I think Sony needs to relax and not worry TOO much about the internet reaction and make sure they just get someone who treats the show as bigger than them.
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Iron Crowned posted:What's funny to me right now about this whole debacle is, being a gameshow host is what he wants to do, and he's likey to have successfully blacklisted himself from it now.
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Aug 21, 2021 18:09
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Iron Crowned posted:Well said Absolutely, you explained it a lot better than I could Timeless In the grand scheme of things, Jeopardy is a TV show competing for eyeballs like any other in not only the present but with streaming the past as well. Its uniqueness comes from not treating the audience like drooling morons (a common problem for daytime TV) but by rewarding them for knowing a wide range of subjects even if only on a elementary level. Even if Art and Alex were just old game show hands, they exhibited a deft authority with how the game and thus knowledge should be treated. It’s the only daytime game show that takes it’s subject seriously (this doesn’t mean other shows are inferior, people need silliness too) and commands attention.
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I don't see anyone having a problem with him. I always figured people expected him to become the host for years now.
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Aug 23, 2021 15:45
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It's very funny to go through all this rigmarole to end up choosing the guy everybody expected and 90% wanted from Day 1.
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Aug 23, 2021 15:48
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Yeah if you're going for the least controversial host at this point it's definitely Jennings. I thought he did a great job, but honestly I thought most of them did a perfectly acceptable job by the third taping or so.
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I was a little meh on Jennings but at this point yes, sure. Please go right ahead.
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zakharov posted:I wonder if they'll be gun shy about his bad tweets given what took Richards down. At least he apologized? You'd think they would already be totally aware of them, but they somehow didn't vet Richard's podcast, so who knows
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I would be very surprised if they don't know about it. Almost no one at all knew about Richards' crap until he picked himself as host. Of course, they should have done their due diligence, but garden variety laziness can explain their ignorance of his podcasts. On the other hand, if you care about Jeopardy, you'd have to have stuck your head in the sand for quite a while to have missed the controversy about Jennings' bad tweets.
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zakharov posted:I wonder if they'll be gun shy about his bad tweets given what took Richards down. At least he apologized? The difference as I see it is that while everyone inevitably has some embarrassing, inappropriate thing in their past that can be dug up, not everyone demonstrates that they are no longer that person today. In Ken's case, I think it's really clear that those things just weren't seen as being super problematic back then. We changed as a culture, and he has kept pace with that and changed as well. Richards, on the other hand, is clearly the same person he was when he hosted that podcast and you get the general vibe from those who've worked with him more recently that this hasn't changed. Old Kentucky Shark posted:Yeah if you're going for the least controversial host at this point it's definitely Jennings. This has been my primary point all along, especially in defending Burton. You can teach someone to be a better host from a technical perspective, most of them just naturally settle into it after just a few games and it's a matter of developing fluency and shaking off nerves. Ken started off a little rough and by his second week was really smooth. But if you just don't have any personality and don't bring anything to the role, that's not something a few more days on set is going to fix. Part of it, to be honest, is also capturing a little of Alex's aura of unabashed pro-intellectualism. You always felt like if he wanted to he could hand over the reins to a guest host and step up to a podium and wipe the floor with 90% of the contestants. It made his snark about wrong answers and triple stumpers endearing. With Ken, you absolutely know for a fact that he could probably destroy you and probably isn't even looking at the clue sheet most of the time. You don't get any of those really unfunny attempts at editorializing after clues just to say there was no way they would have known that or anything else that hints at that incredibly American pride in not knowing things. Still rooting for Burton, but Ken does feel like a natural heir to the podium and did a fine job in his guest weeks.
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