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Bad fits for established hosts/announcers
Jeremy Nelson:
I didn't think Bill Cullen was an ideal fit for Blockbusters. While it didn't need to be a straight up quizzer, there were definitely times when he brought the pace to a halt when all the contestants wanted to do was get more questions in.
Jamey Greek:
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--- Quote from: chris319 on May 31, 2025, 04:37:16 PM ---TPIR never had a good announcer after Johnny Olson passed, and that includes Rod Roddy and Rich Fields. Rod was not a disciplined performer and made mistakes, resulting in pickups. Gene Wood didn't have the pipes for TPIR.
There exists somewhere a test show of TPIR with Bob Hilton announcing. He should have been made the permanent announcer.
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Bob Hilton should've got the job in 85 and Burton Richardson or Art Sanders in 2004, Rich just sounded rough when he yells.
I am not a fan of George Gray he just sounds like a parody of an announcer and the same goes with Jonathan Magnum.
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I agree George should have stuck to hosting. Hell, I could see him host a revival of Remote Control he would have been great for it during TV Land’s heyday in the late 90s/early 2000s.
Jamey Greek:
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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.
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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MG was only temporary until Charlie O fulfilled his commitments with Barris and was able to return to the announcer seat on Wheel. MG IMO, should have gotten the job to host Daytime Wheel after Pat left to do his talk show.
mystery7:
--- Quote from: Jeremy Nelson on June 02, 2025, 10:01:05 PM ---I didn't think Bill Cullen was an ideal fit for Blockbusters. While it didn't need to be a straight up quizzer, there were definitely times when he brought the pace to a halt when all the contestants wanted to do was get more questions in.
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Watch him do a Gold Run. His slow clue reading be excruciating if a player was having a rough time getting across.
Adam Nedeff:
--- Quote from: Mike Tennant on June 02, 2025, 07:36:39 PM ---
--- 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.
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Here's your teaser. We just an oral history interview with Bob Hilton for the Strong Museum and it's scheduled to be released over the summer. Bob Hilton tells a completely different story of why Bob Barker didn't/couldn't host T or C anymore.
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