Oddly enough, Seacrest's career path resembles some of the old-time hosts.
Even if networks offer a big check to a star like Foxx, it's nothing like paying for the writers, directors and actors of a scripted series (to remind you, said writers are now on strike). Several game shows air in prime time now. Foxx got a payday, and Fox got a bankable star to entice viewers to a new game. He succeeded with “Beat Shazam,” on the Fox network. “Years ago, I was telling my agent, I said, ‘Man, you gotta get a game show,’” Foxx told The Associated Press in 2019. And it's behind the request Jamie Foxx surprised his management with in the 2010s. Such relatively easy money is why a job like “Wheel of Fortune” is coveted Whoopi Goldberg openly campaigned for the job. “We have just reached a point where nobody sees any shame in hosting a game show.” “We have a generation of stars who grew up watching game shows,” Nedeff said. Ken Jennings wasn't an actor, but any fan of “Jeopardy!” knew who he was. That makes actors, comics or other celebrities attractive to front these shows (some of which have nevertheless been canceled) - people like Drew Carey ("The Price Is Right"), Howie Mandel ("Deal or No Deal"), Meredith Vieira ("Who Wants to be a Millionaire?"), Wayne Brady ("Let's Make a Deal"), Steve Harvey ("Family Feud"), Alec Baldwin ("Match Game"), Michael Strahan ("The $100,000 Pyramid") and Mayim Bialik ("Jeopardy!"). To create interest in game shows these days, producers look for a name. The Game Show Network and Buzzr exist on cable for aficionados, but are heavy on reruns of the classics.Īnd, let's be honest, who watches, anyway? Game shows were once a mainstay of daytime broadcast television, the land of the unhip, but are much less common today. Trebek similarly had a strong pedigree of television hosting, much of it in Canada, before he became host of “Jeopardy!” Dick Clark would need it when taping 10 episodes of “The 10,000 Pyramid” in a day. Game shows were once shown live, or taped with hardly any interruptions, so the skill of an experienced broadcaster used to those conditions was prized, Nedeff said. “He's kind of the last of the old school,” said Adam Nedeff, author and researcher for the National Archive of Game Show History at the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, New York.
He'll be forever known for standing onstage at the wheel, with Vanna White at the board. But he was 35 years old when he started hosting “Wheel of Fortune” and will be 77 when he leaves next year. He has a handful of other entries on his resume, disc jockey (many of his ilk also got their start in radio) and television weatherman among them. Each of the other men was known primarily as broadcast television game show hosts.
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