![]() ![]() Like a bride’s lucky ensemble, it includes something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue – the predominant hue of modern game show starship-bridge-style production design. But ABC has placed a particularly large bet on them, giving over nearly half its prime-time real estate to what it’s branded “Summer Fun and Games.” (It’s not a new brand, but this year two nights expand to three.) NBC is bringing back “The Wall,” “American Ninja Warrior” and “Hollywood Game Night.” CBS has the returning reality competition “Big Brother” and the new “Love Island” (July 9). Fox’s Dax Shepard-hosted “Spin the Wheel” premieres Thursday. They show up across the broadcast spectrum. (I’m looking at you, CBS, with your summertime excursions in sci-fi.) Whatever may be happening elsewhere in the expanding universe we call television, summer on broadcast continues to be a time for not-quite-mindless diversions, works of modest ambition and the sort of genre exercises a network might shy from the rest of the year. Though it may no longer dominate media coverage or the Emmy Awards, network television remains the most-watched, and the old seasonal rhythms and hierarchies still hold sway there. That world has changed – in the cable-premium-streaming era, new series premiere at any time, all the time – but it is not gone. And yet the world was not worse, and probably a little better, for Bobby Darin, Ken Berry, Helen Reddy, Mac Davis and the team of Melba Moore and Clifton Davis getting the variety show they never could have in TV’s more “important” months. Though these might be revived in subsequent summers, they were born to die when September came. And summer was for taking it easy.īetween Memorial and Labor Day, prime time was filled with reruns and what were once called “summer replacement” shows, cost-effective and purposely impermanent. In winter and spring, weeds were pulled and new crops planted. ![]() “When you want to be able to be up on stage as a gameshow host, and you want to look professional, and want to look like a quiz master, you try to emulate Alex Trebek.Once upon a time, before cable and satellite and streaming platforms, there were three (then four, then five, then six, then five) major broadcast networks, and television ran by their clock. I think he is the ultimate role model when it comes to gameshows,” Roy said. “When people think of Alex Trebek they think of the quiz master. Roy said watching Trebek handle year after year of hosting Jeopardy helped teach him about live performance and how to handle a gameshow. Trebek announced that he was dealing with Stage Four pancreatic cancer in March of 2019. Trebek died early Sunday morning, with the official Jeopardy Twitter page announcing the 80-year-old passed away peacefully at home surrounded by family and friends. “He was very smart, he was very articulate and he really knew how to handle a game at a live time.” He really revolutionized what it was like to be a trivia gameshow host,” Roy said. This guy put in incredible hours, he had an incredible work ethic. “Alex Trebek was definitely an inspiration to gameshow hosts and many entertainers.
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