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New Survey: Greatest Succession Game Show Hosts
Sonic Whammy:
--- Quote from: PYLdude on September 09, 2020, 05:00:42 PM ---Chris Harrison got no love. Sad. I feel he gave them a shot in the arm they so desperately needed and probably bought them a couple extra years.
But who does he qualify as the replacement for, Regis or Meredith? I would assume the latter?
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Since Millionaire has always been considered Regis' show because of the fame it first got under his watch, all of them succeed him. I will say it's cool that you call Meredith Ms. Millionaire, too, though. What do you rest of you think? (And for the record, Harrison was #7 on my list.)
--- Quote from: jjman920 on September 09, 2020, 02:48:57 PM ---It's weird. I know Cullen's Price had fun little games for contestants to play as a bonus for winning their prize, but I've never really been on board comparing Cullen to Barker. I just think The New Price is Right added so much to the format, especially when it went hour long, that the shows are practically night and day. With every other entry in this Top 10 and even the honorable mentions, the host that "succeeded" did so with a show that made little to no changes by the time that host begin hosting it.
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Reboots of shows under the same title still qualified for this. (Come to think of it, did any other shows mentioned on this list have a reboot that was dramatically different than the original?) The question still comes down to whether Bill was with the show long enough and linked to it intensely enough by viewers to be seen as Mr. Price for his time and still at the time when the host that followed (Bob) started? I had to feel that the answer was yes. (More on that in a minute.)
--- Quote from: Mike Tennant on September 09, 2020, 12:08:19 PM ---(Trebek, Barker and Sajak) could have gone in just about any order, and I certainly wouldn't quibble with Trebek's ending up at #1.
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Could you tell my friend that? He's literally the only person this whole time who's cried foul over this outcome. (Read back a few posts in this thread on what he kept telling me.)
TLEberle:
--- Quote from: PYLdude on September 09, 2020, 05:00:42 PM ---Chris Harrison got no love. Sad. I feel he gave them a shot in the arm they so desperately needed and probably bought them a couple extra years.
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I would give him love over several of the top answers in the survey, and Bob Goen too. I don't think I would have put either of them higher than the #7 that I gave to Jim Perry which was denied because "Joe Garagiola wasn't Mr. Sale of the Century." Harrumph. And apparently there were other votes that were spiked. Perhaps "pinch runner" would be a better metaphor because I don't recall anyone but Allen Ludden being called "Mr. (X)"
--- Quote ---But who does he qualify as the replacement for, Regis or Meredith? I would assume the latter?
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It is a greatly missed opportunity that Mr. Harrison didn't slide in for Meredith when she gave it up. As much as I loved the enthusiasm that Terry brought Chris was able to hit the ground running with the game and was already a polished host at that point.
chargeradiocom:
--- Quote from: Chuck Sutton on September 08, 2020, 07:29:45 PM ---As for honorable mention, when I first saw your survey, it screamed Steve Harvey.
Under his tenure a show near cancellation was again often the #1 syndicated game show. His tenure has exceeded Dawson. But it is not just that. Without his Feud the whole game show landscape would be different.
The success of Feud with Harvey, lead to a prime time network spinoff.
The success of the primetime spinoff leads ABC to create the summer fun and games.
The other revivals probably do not happen without the ratings success of Celebrity Family Feud.
According to Anthony Anderson, ABC and Fremantle were already talking to him about reviving TTTT, before he appeared on Celebrity Feud. Would it have gone beyond talking if Celebrity Feud had failed?
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Here’s my thing about Steve Harvey: After his first season, I’d have probably considered him the best Feud host since Dawson. But then it felt like he just kept repeating the same schtick, which dropped him down a couple positions in my view. (Though to be fair, he does seem to have gotten out of that cycle a bit in more recent seasons.) I think his run is also tinted for some of us by the constant barrage of raunchy humor, & just the fact that it’s on TV so dang much. Not that either of those is directly Steve’s fault, necessarily, but those may be reasons his run isn’t viewed more favorably in GS fandom.
That said, you do make a persuasive argument for why he belongs in this conversation.
The one I’m really surprised didn’t get more love in this survey is John O’Hurley. I thought his runs both on Feud and TTTT were pretty highly regarded around here.
WhammyPower:
--- Quote from: chargeradiocom on September 12, 2020, 05:49:46 PM ---The one I’m really surprised didn’t get more love in this survey is John O’Hurley. I thought his runs both on Feud and TTTT were pretty highly regarded around here.
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When whom you're replacing on Feud is Richard Karn and Louie Anderson, pretty much anyone will look like royalty.
jage:
O’Hurley did a decent job, but I bet outside of this forum less than 1% would know who he was. The entries on the top 9 generally established themselves as a recognizable figure associated with the show in question.
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