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Alternate realities when it comes to game shows
clemon79:
--- Quote from: Kevin Prather on January 16, 2025, 11:27:49 PM ---Interesting! Tying that in to the thread's topic, I wonder who becomes the new host if that light doesn't turn on. Did Barris happen to mention anyone?
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Nope.
TheInquisitiveOne:
--- Quote from: steveleb on January 16, 2025, 12:53:42 AM ---As someone who was intimately involved with Jeopardy GOAT, let me assure you Alex’s health was anything but an issue that was in the table. The concept had been discussed during the 50th anniversary year. GSN was among the networks Harry and team pitched it to. Needless to say, it was well beyond our pocketbook (and besides, it had a shiny floor, which killed it with my superiors). The ABC station group advocated for it with the network but at the time their brass was down on game shows. As Rob Mills got more entrenched and as Sony became a reliable supplier the topic was revisited several times—other experiments got in the way. We finally found a window of budgetary opportunity on both sides in 2019. Alex’s health issues were a constant factor but that did not factor into the green light. As even he said so often, it’s the game that mattered the most.
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First off, let me say that between this and your take on Wheel’s “what if.” your firsthand accounts and insights have been very helpful, and I greatly appreciate it.
Regarding this, it sounds like the time window and circumstances just so happened to fall in the right place. It just felt so coincidental, between Alex’s health, James’ tournament win, and the shutdowns that were to happen two months later.
The Inquisitive One
TLEberle:
I’m curious who is the third challenger in a GOAT rodeo back in 2014. Perhaps an early iteration of JIT would do the trick.
Also didn’t GSN have some standard fare game shows back then?
Jeremy Nelson:
--- Quote from: TLEberle on January 21, 2025, 12:53:27 AM ---I’m curious who is the third challenger in a GOAT rodeo back in 2014. Perhaps an early iteration of JIT would do the trick.
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We kinda got that with Jeopardy: Battle of the Decades. But if you have to choose one person, it's probably Roger Craig (who ended up being the third finalist in BotD) but you could go Chuck Forrest if you wanted representation from the old guard.
bulldog_06:
--- Quote from: clemon79 on January 16, 2025, 04:33:04 PM ---Are you suggesting Bob Farking Eubanks is responsible for whatever level of success CS86 achieved?
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Not at all. Bruce Forsyth, as popular as he was in the UK, seemed evident for him to get the CS gig because of his work on "Play Your Cards Right," but his consolation prize was ABC's Hot Streak. CS '86 and Hot Streak pilots were taped the year before. Had to believe Goodson was looking at him for his revival. Also Goodson might have liked Eubanks from his work on "Trivia Trap" the year before.
Speaking of Eubanks, he mentions how he got TNG gig in an interview for the TV Academy Foundation some years ago.
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