GameShowHost-related stories
Posted Oct 1st 2009 5:00PM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Video, Game Show
Terry Kniess, the Double Showcase winner on
The Price is Right who got his bid right on the money, may have been
a "dark day" for Drew Carey, but he's no cheater.
In fact, there have been more egregious and blatant attempts to guarantee a win in a pricing game by skewing the odds in their favor, sometimes right in front of the host's eyes.
For instance, here's a "Shell Game" contestant who does something so outrageous, so ballsy, so completely devious that Bob Barker can't help but rip her to verbal shreds in front of the entire nation. And not only does she get away with it, but she actually wins the game!
Continue reading The Price is Right has had much squirrelier contestants
Posted Aug 3rd 2009 11:27AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Game Show, Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free
Game show fanatics will be pleased to learn that network game shows are returning to daytime television. Finally, people who take actual sick days will have something else to look forward to other than another mind-bending dose of NyQuil.
CBS has confirmed they are replacing the outgoing
Guiding Light with a remake of the classic
Let's Make a Deal.
The ex-Tiffany network has already shot a test pilot of the updated show with smiling crooner Wayne Brady in the host's chair. Brady hasn't officially won the job, but he's the front-running favorite. CBS executives are expected to make Brady's deal official later today at
the Television Critics Association hoedown, unless, of course, he chooses to go for what's behind Door Number Two. Don't do it Wayne! It's just a lifetime supply of goat feed!
Continue reading CBS makes a deal for Let's Make a Deal with Wayne Brady
Posted Apr 7th 2009 11:00AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Game Show, Reality-Free
There are some forces in the universe that should never be messed with: the sun, black holes and
Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek. Take it from
someone who knows.
The man has the unholy ability to make ANYONE look stupid on national television. He can make an Ivy League PhD appear as though he went to city college. He can turn a Midwestern elementary school teacher into someone no parent would entrust their child with for eight hours a day. His trademark "Oh, sorry" alone can make a world renowned neurosurgeon look like a jabbering mental patient who doesn't know the name of the bone that houses the human brain.
So it's no wonder that politicians are scared to be seen in the same camera shot with the man.
Continue reading Alex Trebek says politicans are scared of him, and they should be - VIDEO
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