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Ok, let me see if I have this straight (probably not): Alex dies, beavers and eagles mourn in unison. Sony (or CBS) wants Blossom given her credibility in Hollywood and science but they can't say it outright since it'd be a odd choice. To mask the effect, they decide to hold "auditions" via a guest host slot starting with GOAT Ken Jennings. A minor kerfuffle occurs with The Chase giving EP Kramer (who eyes the job himself) to boot Ken and give himself a chance to impress the top brass. Meanwhile, Levar's agency astroturfs a campaign to have him made the new host given his track record. Sony never takes him seriously but they have hosts to fill so why not? The shows air, people complain on the internet. Sony focus groups the candidates. Levar tops it but they decide on Blossom as she's #2. Problem, her sitcom is unexpectedly renewed meaning she can't take the full time job. Kramer steps in to do it while she handles the specials. Sony agrees. poo poo hits the fan with Kramer's reputation and Sony pulls him from hosting but has now instead double downed on making Blossom the host full time despite the situation.
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Anti-Hero posted:I'm not sure what the context of that tweet was. It reads to me that Bialik is saying she doesn't agree with thesis that babies that have to be birthed by C-section should never have been conceived. What am I missing? So, yeah her words may not seem too lovely, but they legitimately are part of a bigger trend of pro-natural people who will sort of bait and switch you with "hey, we're not saying you're a monster for getting an epidural and your baby shouldn't live... BUT..." and then try to make you feel lovely about an "unnatural" birth which she does go on to do. Also, the idea that children who are born through interventions are against evolution is purely idiotic. We evolved to learn how to use tools and explore our own bodies. Anything any animal in the universe does is by definition in line with evolution. Timeless Appeal fucked around with this message at 19:12 on Aug 25, 2021 |
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Inside the Jeopardy! Host-Hunting Meltdown: Sony looked aside as an unknown EP crowned himself Alex Trebek’s replacement.
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Jeopardy generated a lot of goodwill and interest after Alex died, and they squandered most (or all) of it to pull a 'guest hosts' stunt and elevate Mike Richards' career. What a gently caress up.
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Timeless Appeal posted:Having just had a baby, natural birth fanatics really dominate the discourse having a baby. It's legitimately hard to find birthing classes that are not biased towards natural. Lamaze has always just seemed like the thing people do and is synonymous with planning for delivery that I was shocked to realize how anti-epidural they are. The classes we chose were FINE, but was still a natural biased person who had separate epidural lessons that weren't based in shame. Yah, I didn't read it aloud in my head with the dog-whistle wink-wink tone of "OTHER PEOPLE are saying this bad thing..." so that makes sense. Definitely wasn't disputing the underlying issue of natural vs. unnatural births.
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Aug 25, 2021 18:18
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The reason it's being read in the "many people are saying" way is she delayed vaccinating her kids then didn't get them fully vaccinated but claimed they're vaccinated.
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Aug 25, 2021 18:26
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Island Nation posted:Meanwhile, Levar's agency astroturfs a campaign to have him made the new host given his track record. 
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Aug 25, 2021 18:41
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People just love Levar Burton. Gen X and even Boomers remember Roots, millennials remember Reading Rainbow, and nerds of all generations know Star Trek. He doesn't seem to have skeletons, co-workers and fans all speak highly of him, and his demeanor and charity work have placed him up with Mr. Rogers and Bob Ross in the kind and lovable role model department. I think there was a genuinely organic outpouring of support for him online. Who knows if anyone affiliated with him tried to join in the push too, but I think almost everybody on all sides thought there was some actual consideration taking place and making more noise might help.
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Worth remembering that what really forced them to dump Richards was a staff revolt. They might not have that problem with Bialik.
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Gene Hackman Fan posted:Oddly enough, a hell of a lot cleaner record compared to some of the other names SPE has been tossing around. https://twitter.com/cowcaster/status/1430281123419013120
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I'm not convinced his support was organic. Anyone in the public eye could've been thrown in but it almost always came up Levar. I grew up watching Reading Rainbow (Not so much TNG) like a bunch of people but hosting a game show and a children's show isn't 1:1. Besides, Sony would likely have wanted a young host to prevent a repeat issue in the long term. Since Levar had his main gig ending in NCIS:NO, He would want a new job as all actors do and his agency wants steady income, it's almost a perfect fit. Cue the campaign. Disclaimer: My sister has a role at a marketing company that involves her doing business with Sony (Playstation specifically) so my view may be colored by her stories dealing with them.
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You can just look at this thread to see a ton of passionate support for Levar. Easily more so than any other one host. People here are genuinely excited for him. You should know. You’ve been arguing with them about Levar before and after his episodes aired. Sorry he doesn’t rank highly for you personally, but it’s so weird to be all, “my sister has marketing experience so I think this was astroturfed. He’s only doing this because he’s desperate and hasn’t been relevant in 20 years.” Just way out there. We get it. You have it in for Levar Burton, of all people. Zesty fucked around with this message at 20:10 on Aug 25, 2021 |
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Island Nation posted:I'm not convinced his support was organic. Anyone in the public eye could've been thrown in but it almost always came up Levar. I grew up watching Reading Rainbow (Not so much TNG) like a bunch of people but hosting a game show and a children's show isn't 1:1. Besides, Sony would likely have wanted a young host to prevent a repeat issue in the long term. Since Levar had his main gig ending in NCIS:NO, He would want a new job as all actors do and his agency wants steady income, it's almost a perfect fit. Cue the campaign. Mentioned this before, but even before Trebek announced he had cancer, LeVar was one of the top names thrown around to eventually replace him when his contract expired in our contestant Facebook group. And said contestant group is comprised of a lot of people who the media go to when they need a sound bite or tweet for the stories about Jeopardy around this whole shenanigans, as well as immediately after Trebek’s death when the discussion first started being thrown around, making them (as much as I usually hate this term) Key Opinion Leaders. So no, there was indeed a genuine grassroots campaign to get LeVar the position independent of any astroturf.
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Mike Richards, though? straight astroturfed horseshit
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Gene Hackman Fan posted:Mike Richards, though? straight astroturfed horseshit Very much so. I couldn’t open a new tab on the browser on my work computer without some fluff entertainment website article about how good Mike Richards “surprisingly” was after his episodes were aired and the parade of guest hosts went on staring me in the face.
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Zesty posted:He seems to be a good guy. Has had a lot of health scares though which is still a bummer. He is a self-proclaimed lifelong Republican, but he's not one of the Trump / MTG suicide cult types. He has severe anxiety disorder and OCD, and a deep-seated fear of touching substances, surfaces and people unknown to him. I have absolutely no earthly idea how he survived hosting Double Dare for so long without having a complete nervous breakdown.
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Timby posted:He is a self-proclaimed lifelong Republican, but he's not one of the Trump / MTG suicide cult types. He has severe anxiety disorder and OCD, and a deep-seated fear of touching substances, surfaces and people unknown to him. Hell, after the last 15 months I have a deep seated fear of touching substances, surfaces and people unknown to me too.
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BaronVonVaderham posted:All of this plus watching a documentary about Nickelodeon makes me never want to google Mark Summers; I'm afraid I'd find out he's a piece of poo poo. Anybody willing to do an episode of workaholics and talk about "the boy scout rule of Ds" with a straight face can't be that bad. (I say, five minutes before we find out he's a serial killer or something)
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Zesty posted:He seems to be a good guy. Has had a lot of health scares though which is still a bummer. Marc Summers, pre Covid, would yearly do an event called “Dunkel Dare” locally in Philly where he basically did double dare but with local people and with beer. I went to one, it was pretty fun. Dude rules so far, is what I’m saying.
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Duckman2008 posted:Marc Summers, pre Covid, would yearly do an event called “Dunkel Dare” locally in Philly where he basically did double dare but with local people and with beer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4Trrhf_nc0 Agreed. Dude been in the business in one way or another all the way back to the jokers wild. Gene Hackman Fan fucked around with this message at 22:04 on Aug 25, 2021 |
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I was seriously expecting the first response to be, "Sorry, here's an article about him basically being an awful human being." Dude does rule and that's why I would be so disappointed. One of the most natural hosts for kids' shows ever, and I remember enjoying Unwrapped on Food Network years ago. Can we just have Kirk Fogg take over Jeopardy, though, and instead of FJ the contestant with the highest score does a temple run?
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BaronVonVaderham posted:Can we just have Kirk Fogg take over Jeopardy, though, and instead of FJ the contestant with the highest score does a temple run? God I've probably seen every episode of that show but if you put a gun to my head I never would have been able to tell you who the host was. I would also accept Mike O'Malley with FJ on top of the Aggro Crag. Moira can do the special episodes.
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Ror posted:God I've probably seen every episode of that show but if you put a gun to my head I never would have been able to tell you who the host was. Moira Quirk 
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Ror posted:God I've probably seen every episode of that show but if you put a gun to my head I never would have been able to tell you who the host was. It's my useless superpower: remembering and recognizing obscure people from ancient tv shows. Any time we watch anything animated my wife braces for my inevitable, "I recognize that voice! That's [insert some actor no one has thought of in 20 years]!"
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I mostly remember him in his post Nickelodeon career doing presentations for Food Network’s Unwrapped, where he gamely made the best of showing how food is made industrially with some enthusiasm.
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BaronVonVaderham posted:It's my useless superpower: remembering and recognizing obscure people from ancient tv shows. Any time we watch anything animated my wife braces for my inevitable, "I recognize that voice! That's [insert some actor no one has thought of in 20 years]!" Lord, same. And I still didn't pick up that Moira Quirk was a voice in Skyrim, heh.
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Ror posted:God I've probably seen every episode of that show but if you put a gun to my head I never would have been able to tell you who the host was. Man, now you got me thinking of old Nick game shows. I watched a ton of both Guts and Legends of the Hidden Temple, but couldn’t tell you who hosted them. I do remember Dee Bradley Baker as the voice of Olmec in the latter though. So much for my vaunted memory for trivia lol.
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GhostStalker posted:Man, now you got me thinking of old Nick game shows. I watched a ton of both Guts and Legends of the Hidden Temple, but couldn’t tell you who hosted them. I do remember Dee Bradley Baker as the voice of Olmec in the latter though. So much for my vaunted memory for trivia lol. I'm a little sad that I now know how the Video Zone worked on Nick Arcade. Phil Moore was an amazing host for that one.
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GhostStalker posted:I do remember Dee Bradley Baker as the voice of Olmec in the latter though. You might like to know he'll be voicing Olmec again in CW's grown-up version of Legends of the Hidden Temple that's debuting later this year.
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Looks like other outlets are picking up TMZ’s reporting: https://twitter.com/chris_notcapn/status/1430636674711793669
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Poque posted:Lord, same. And I still didn't pick up that Moira Quirk was a voice in Skyrim, heh. Wasn't she also Elly in Xenogears?
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Snorb posted:Wasn't she also Elly in Xenogears? holy poo poo 
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She was also Dr. Vahlen and Brit Crust.
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Snorb posted:Wasn't she also Elly in Xenogears? WHAT Poque fucked around with this message at 17:40 on Oct 17, 2022 |
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