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zachhoran:
[quote name=\'SRIV94\' date=\'Dec 1 2003, 11:32 PM\'] Maybe I'm reading the question incorrectly, but wouldn't Trebek count as having been producer AND host for the 1984-85 season or so of J!?

Doug -- soon to celebrate 200 posts [/quote]
 He hosted and produced J! from 1984-87, and he counts like Cullen counts as a producer of TPIR in its ABC days.

Matt Ottinger:
[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Dec 2 2003, 01:12 AM\'] [quote name=\'SRIV94\' date=\'Dec 1 2003, 11:32 PM\'] Maybe I'm reading the question incorrectly, but wouldn't Trebek count as having been producer AND host for the 1984-85 season or so of J!?

Doug -- soon to celebrate 200 posts [/quote]
He hosted and produced J! from 1984-87, and he counts like Cullen counts as a producer of TPIR in its ABC days. [/quote]
 I believe the original question referred to the producer as the owner of the production, so in that sense Zach is right.  On the other hand, we could probably further subdivide "producer" to separate the ones who actually had the responsibility from the ones who got, for lack of a better word, a courtesy title.

Trebek was the geniune producer for the three seasons he wore both hats.  He reported to corporate bosses, of course, but he called the shots in the making of the show.  Cullen, on the other hand, was far too busy to concern himself with the day-to-day of getting TPIR on the air.  He eventually received a producer credit, and I'm sure his input when he gave it was taken seriously, but other people (mostly Bob Stewart, of course) held the reins.

tyshaun1:
[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Dec 1 2003, 11:04 PM\'] [quote name=\'Card Shark\' date=\'Dec 1 2003, 11:02 PM\'] [quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Dec 1 2003, 10:59 PM\'] Peter Tomarken had a supervising producer role on Wipeout, though that probably counts in a similar category to Barker on TPIR. [/quote]
Just out of curiosity, what was Peter's background in broadcasting prior to hosting a few game shows? [/quote]
Essentially a struggling actor. He had a small role in the 1978 movie Heaven Can Wait(he played a porter as I recall reading), and did a few commercials. He was a magazine editor for Women's Wear Daily, as per the EOTVGS2. His first hosting gig was the Rodeo Drive pilot in 1980. [/quote]
 Peter was also a commercial director for a number of years before getting in front of the camera. I've also read that Peter has gotten back into that field, which is why youy see him occasionally pop into commercials recently. BTW, he's currently in a commercial for Lincoln-Mercury, playing an "Xbox" with his "son" (it's a real quick shot, so watch carefully).

Tyshaun

scully24:
Donny Osmond also has a producer credit on the current Pyramid.  This is probably another in the vein of the Bob Barker/Peter Tomarken credits discussed above.

Interestingly, the head contestant co-ordinator for Pyramid, Leslie Aquavive-Shulman, also bears the title of "Contestant Producer" on the show.  This is the first time to my knowledge that a contestant coordinator has been given a producer title on a show.

GS Warehouse:
[quote name=\'scully24\' date=\'Dec 2 2003, 12:50 PM\'] Donny Osmond also has a producer credit on the current Pyramid.  This is probably another in the vein of the Bob Barker/Peter Tomarken credits discussed above. [/quote]
 To be specific, Donny is the consulting producer.  BTW, Jeff Probst is now a producer for Survivor.

Drifting more toward producing, anyone notice just how many executive producers there are on prime time shows nowadays?  For example, Everybody Loves Raymond has eight EP's (including Ray Romano himself and former Make the Grade host Lew Schneider)!  Why do they need that many, and what exactly do they do besides sign paychecks?  I remember reading some years back that Whoopi Goldberg's EP title during her years on Hollywood Squares was little more than justifying her (large) salary.

ObGameShows: Anybody notice the credits in the April Fool's day edition of Cram?  Every credit was "executive producer"!

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