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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: johnnya2k3 on December 10, 2014, 11:44:25 AM
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With this year about to draw to a close, it's time to run through the biggest game show stories of 2014. Some of them come to mind:
LMAD's first ever Emmy win...for Best Song
Family Feud still on a ratings high, all thanks to Steve Harvey's historic Game Show Host win (the first African-American to do so!); his talk show also won
Sheree Heil winning a $157,300 Audi R8 Spyder Quattro in Gas Money, making her the BIGGEST WINNER IN TPIR DAYTIME HISTORY!!!! (carried over from 2013)
"The Chase's" Brooke Burns among the countless celebrities involved in a certain scandal that shall remain nameless
"Catch 21" host Alfonso Ribierio winning the latest season of Dancing With The Stars
A series of mis-solves on Wheel of Fortune that had Pat Sajak losing his cool
and of course...
Arthur Chu's and Julia Collins' reigns of terror on Jeopardy!, though in the end, it was Ben Ingram who outsmarted them both.
Any others we should include?
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You do realize that Pat "losing his cool" was an act, right?
This "nameless scandal"...I have no idea what you're talking about. Please elaborate.
Outside of Arthur or Julia's runs, I dunno if I'd put any of these on the list. But my mileage prolly varies.
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This "nameless scandal"...I have no idea what you're talking about. Please elaborate.
I would assume the celebrity photo leaks (mainly female celebrities).
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Yes, Pat blowing his cool was all an act, probably imitating Steve Harvey. But for much of this year, Feud has seriously been ganging up on Wheel and Jeopardy in the ratings.
The previous week's numbers (http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2014/11/11/syndicated-tv-ratings-judge-judy-dr-phil-tops-talkers-for-week-ending-november-2-2014/325954/) showed the three shows neck and neck and neck, and Wheel has been the top syndie game show for 30 years. Its staleness has eventually caught up with them, and there's a lot of fixing up to do; otherwise, Feud will be the brand new #1.
Other game show highlights of '14 include...
Sports Jeopardy! on Crackle (which leads me to believe that Netflix may jump on the game show bandwagon themselves pretty soon)
Terry Crews the new host of Millionaire
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Yes, Pat blowing his cool was all an act, probably imitating Steve Harvey.
Yes, because a 30+ year veteran needs to steal schtick from a guy who runs his show on dick jokes.
You're reminding me of Adam Kleist and "It is still noteworthy in that it is about to be seen."
/what was Pat O'Brien up to in 2014
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Yes, Pat blowing his cool was all an act, probably imitating Steve Harvey.
Yes, because a 30+ year veteran needs to steal schtick from a guy who runs his show on dick jokes.
Not only that, but Pat's been doing the mock exasperation long before Steve Harvey, John O'Hurley, Richard Karn or Louie Anderson ever stepped onto the set of Family Feud.
It's just something hosts do, and Steve Harvey definitely did not invent it. Sajak does it, Rayburn did it, Dawson did it, Barker did it, and so on, and so on, and so on.
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Jonathan: you should send this list over to Steve Beverly for inclusion in the 2015 Game Show Annual.
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The passings of Jim Lange and Geoff Edwards, among others.....And I'm still smarting over the former. :'(
Cordially,
Tammy
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The passings of Jim Lange and Geoff Edwards, among others.....And I'm still smarting over the former. :'(
These two are good inclusions, esp. happening so close together.
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The passings of Jim Lange and Geoff Edwards, among others.....And I'm still smarting over the former. :'(
These two are good inclusions, esp. happening so close together.
Is it really a big story that members of the old guard are dying? And given their age, why would anyone be smarting over it?
If someone was going to do a Year End Retrospective, sure, put them in the In Memoriam section,
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Not like there are a lot of options to begin with. But yes, I'd say that losing two big names, esp. just a week apart, is still pretty newsworthy.
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Forgotten about the passings of Lange and Edwards...and Don Pardo, too.
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Forgotten about the passings of Lange and Edwards...and Don Pardo, too.
And Bern Bennett...
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Brad Rutter reclaiming his spot atop the winnings list, and winning his fourth Jeopardy tournament title, oughta be there.
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Brad Rutter reclaiming his spot atop the winnings list, and winning his fourth Jeopardy tournament title, oughta be there.
The whole Battle of the Decades tournament would get my vote.
One of my favorite bits about that was the fact that Arthur Chu was getting heat for using the Forrest Bounce during his games, and then along comes Chuck Forrest, along with forty-four other vetted Jeopardy champions, and at LEAST half of them were doing it, if not something similar.
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Outside of Arthur or Julia's runs, I dunno if I'd put any of these on the list. But my mileage prolly varies.
I'd probably include Emil from Wheel of Fortune solving "New Baby Buggy" with only the "Ne" in New showing. That story was everywhere for a hot minute.
While not as big, Trent on Wheel also got a bit of buzz with Trent even appearing on Good Morning America.
Also, Wheel of Fortune celebrated their 6,000th episode and The Price is Right their 8,000th.
The passings of Jim Lange and Geoff Edwards, among others.....And I'm still smarting over the former. :'(
These two are good inclusions, esp. happening so close together.
Is it really a big story that members of the old guard are dying? And given their age, why would anyone be smarting over it?
If someone was going to do a Year End Retrospective, sure, put them in the In Memoriam section,
Given that GSN thought of Lange's passing enough to pull out four hours of Dating Game episodes for a day would make it count to me as a big story. They hadn't bestowed the honor of a marathon on a late host since Clark and Dawson's passings.
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All these Wheel mentions and not one about its third millionaire?
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All these Wheel mentions and not one about its third millionaire?
Make of this what you like (I certainly have) but winning a million dollars on a game show just isn't a big deal anymore.
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Also:
Bill Bellamy becoming new host of Let's Ask America
While we're talking about Wheel of Fortune's staleness - too many Before and After puzzles (and What Are You Doing? as well) while it takes a while for categories like Headline, Star and Role, etc. to appear- it's news when an episode does NOT have either B&A or WAYD?
Brian
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One story that has already broke:
James O'Halloran becomes TPIR's second male model (while predecessor Rob Wilson takes his talents to Days Of Our Lives)!
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James O'Hallohan
Or as most people refer to him, James O'Halloran.
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it's news when an episode does NOT have either B&A or WAYD?
It is? I can't help wondering what kind of fluff a 24-hour Brian Henke news channel would be filled with..
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Also:
Bill Bellamy becoming new host of Let's Ask America
While we're talking about Wheel of Fortune's staleness - too many Before and After puzzles (and What Are You Doing? as well) while it takes a while for categories like Headline, Star and Role, etc. to appear- it's news when an episode does NOT have either B&A or WAYD?
I dunno if I'd put either on the list of "Biggest" stories (definitely not the second "story"), but seeing this list is totally subjective, I guess it'll do.
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James O'Hallohan
Or as most people refer to him, James O'Halloran.
Or as the majority of American people refer to him, "Who?"
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I dunno if I'd put either on the list of "Biggest" stories (definitely not the second "story"), but seeing this list is totally subjective, I guess it'll do.
I look at this sort of thing the way I look at the Top Money Winner lists or even the Most Fascinating Person/Person of the Year; everyone has their opinions about it, the fact that the opinion belongs to Brian Henke just tells us all the faster whether we want to take it in or disregard it.
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Another big story that just happened:
Matt DeSanto breaking the bank on Wheel of Fortune, winning a record $91,892!!!! (while Terry is still depressed to this day over her $62,400 blowout)
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(while Terry is still depressed to this day over her $62,400 blowout)
I'd be willing to bet she probably went on with her life as usual
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Is she even still alive? It was thirty-ish years ago.
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Is she even still alive? It was thirty-ish years ago.
Or to expand even further (unnecessarily, perhaps?)...how many of the big winners of the past are no longer with us?
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Is she even still alive? It was thirty-ish years ago.
Or to expand even further (unnecessarily, perhaps?)...how many of the big winners of the past are no longer with us?
Teddy Nadler passed in 1984.
/Stempel and Van Doren are still with us, though
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Or to expand even further (unnecessarily, perhaps?)...how many of the big winners of the past are no longer with us?
Unnecessarily is in the eye of the beholder, but I don't think anyone could say "Too soon!" and be taken seriously.