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Bad fits for established hosts/announcers
Loogaroo:
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--- 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.
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It also was three months out of the year (he mentioned in a phone interview with the Game Show Convention crew that tapings would run well into the night due to rewrites advised by the show's legal consultants to keep things plausible in a courtroom setting) so he'd have the rest of the year available to work on other projects.
Also, I can't believe we're three pages in and nobody has mentioned Gene Rayburn's stint on Break The Bank '85. (Maybe because that was doomed to be a trainwreck no matter who was at the helm of it).
cmjb13:
--- Quote from: Loogaroo on June 02, 2025, 03:02:03 PM ---
--- 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.
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It also was three months out of the year (he mentioned in a phone interview with the Game Show Convention crew that tapings would run well into the night due to rewrites advised by the show's legal consultants to keep things plausible in a courtroom setting) so he'd have the rest of the year available to work on other projects.
Also, I can't believe we're three pages in and nobody has mentioned Gene Rayburn's stint on Break The Bank '85. (Maybe because that was doomed to be a trainwreck no matter who was at the helm of it).
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I remember watching an episode of Divorce court when I was young where someone pulled a gun. If I hadn’t realized realized before that the show was not entirely real, that did it.
chris319:
Rich Jeffries was an employee of the NABET film local and happened to hold an AFTRA card. He was the stand-in emcee during rehearsals of P+. He buddied up to Gene Wood and helped out on warm-ups for P+. He wanted to be a full-fledged announcer and I suggested that he get some formal voice training, which he did. The rest is history.
Both Gene and Rich J. were cigarette smokers and I think this took away some of the resonance their voices may otherwise have had.
Mike Tennant:
--- Quote from: Neumms on June 02, 2025, 02:02:24 PM ---Has anyone heard if Bob Barker had any ill will toward Bob Hilton over The New T or C?
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I doubt he did. Barker said in Priceless Memories that he chose not to return to T or C because his agent advised him that doing that along with daytime and nighttime TPIR would lead to "overexposure" and because much of the old guard at T or C had left. I'm not saying it isn't possible, but I don't see why he would be upset that Hilton took "his" job under those circumstances--especially after Hilton's version flopped. One could, after all, make the case that Barker took Ralph Edwards' or Jack Bailey's job when he became the host of T or C.
rwalker:
Cullen on Tjw. Clearly, he talked too much to the contestants. Especially in his first season, there was hardly any game play. They were knocking on the door of the audience game with the bat of an eye
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