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Bad fits for established hosts/announcers
colonial:
I thought Davidson was perfectly fine on Hollywood Squares -- not an A-level host but someone who played the straight man to a cast of crazies acceptably. Davison hosting Pyramid is another matter altogether -- a combination of oil and water.
Even mediocre Bill Cullen is better than what's defined as good nowadays, but the clips I saw of him hosting $25K Pyramid seemed like he was a slightly ill fit for the format. Clark was good at the format he made it his own. Cullen, while more than serviceable, was a tad jokey and not the fair, but occasionally stern taskmaster in Clark. And as we saw with TJW, Cullen's weak spot was primarily speed-centric formats.
Never really liked Monty outside of LMAD. Split Second was a speed-centric game and Hall never seemed comfortable with the format from the get-go.
JD
BrandonFG:
--- Quote from: Winkfan on May 31, 2025, 05:21:57 PM ---I still believe Divorce Court was the biggest waste of Jim Peck's talent!
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He deserved better but it kept him employed for several years. I don’t think he’s gonna call it a waste of his career just because it wasn’t a game show.
I dunno if this counts as established given that it was his only game show, but MG Kelly wasn’t a good fit as a Wheel announcer. He was a little too lowkey IMO.
Second everyone who said Rich Fields on TPiR. Anytime an episode from the 2000s plays, I hear “HERE IT CAH-MS!” and have to decide if I wanna keep watching.
Neumms:
Has anyone heard if Bob Barker had any ill will toward Bob Hilton over The New T or C?
Bob Eubanks wasn’t good—or worse than his usual not good if you feel that way—on Dream House. I find it a lame show anyway, but with contestants who knew what a condiment is, he had nothin.’ He also seemed a little too chummy to the wives, what with their husbands standing there.
I think Meredith Viera is wrong on 25 Words or Less. Millionaire was different because it was essentially an interview, but she doesn’t really bring the fun. I’m also bummed she doesn’t do news anymore.
Also, that one week he filled in, Allen Ludden didn’t seem quite right on The Dating Game.
TimK2003:
--- Quote from: colonial on June 02, 2025, 10:42:33 AM ---I thought Davidson was perfectly fine on Hollywood Squares -- not an A-level host but someone who played the straight man to a cast of crazies acceptably. Davison hosting Pyramid is another matter altogether -- a combination of oil and water.
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Davidson on Squares was the equivilent of Burt Convy on Super Password: Both replaced their far-better original hosts, both were not the greatest traffic cops when it came to keeping the games going at a good clip, and both tended to goof up more on camera than their predecessors. Despite all of that, they made the shows their own, and they were far from being the worst game shows on the air at the time.
wdm1219inpenna:
--- Quote from: BrandonFG on June 02, 2025, 11:03:17 AM ---
--- Quote from: Winkfan on May 31, 2025, 05:21:57 PM ---I still believe Divorce Court was the biggest waste of Jim Peck's talent!
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He deserved better but it kept him employed for several years. I don’t think he’s gonna call it a waste of his career just because it wasn’t a game show.
I dunno if this counts as established given that it was his only game show, but MG Kelly wasn’t a good fit as a Wheel announcer. He was a little too lowkey IMO.
Second everyone who said Rich Fields on TPiR. Anytime an episode from the 2000s plays, I hear “HERE IT CAH-MS!” and have to decide if I wanna keep watching.
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And tying in with Wheel and Rich, Rich did do some temp announcing work on Wheel after Charlie O'Donnel's passing and he was definitely not a good fit for Wheel. Jim Thornton has proven a very worthy successor to Charlie, as well as Jack Clark.
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