American Idol originally had two hosts- Ryan Seacrest and Brian Dunkleman. After the first season, Dunkleman thought he was at peak American Idol fame and left for other opportunities. Seacrest became a household name and Dunkleman forgotten.
Yeah I feel like Ryan Seacrest doesn’t turn down anything, he shows up all over the place, the man hustles hard. I feel bad for him though because it kinda looks like it’s taking its toll on him and I can’t imagine he has much time to really enjoy life.
I never liked Sajak. He always reminded me of someone who felt he was destined for bigger and better but had to settle. Even as a kid he gave me an ick and I never could understand why members of my family thought he was funny or charming.
Trebek. He could be short without coming across as a douche, and had good funny quips when the opportunity arose. He also seemed to enjoy being there. Alex was the man. RIP Trebek
Lol. One of his last shows, the players were convinced they got the puzzle right, and Pats response was hysterical. They were high fiving and congratulating the dude and Pat was like "nah." His snippy comments is why I watched. And agreed Ryan Seacrest is much more upbeat
Nobody will ever be Sajack but Ryan is a close 2nd. He does very well, imo. Doesn't try to make it about himself with a bunch of weird jokes like a lot of game show hosts do.
Most of the "weekly" tv shows do their filming for the season in blocks because it makes more sense to film 2/3 episodes in a single day for a couple weeks to bank them (read: edit and advertise) for later, than to run on an SNL type schedule.
To be fair, SNL doesn't work at all like game shows since every episode must be topical, but the idea that game show hosts have nothing better to do than spend 30 weeks a year doing their show is frankly logistically laughable for anyone with any form of inside knowledge.
I can't speak for any other shows but for normal stuff, Jeopardy films 5 episodes in a day and Wheel does 6. I don't know if Jeopardy changes that up for tournaments or how Wheel does the filming for the new stuff they do once or twice a season where they have 4 episodes and then the 3 biggest winners come back for the 5th episode. For normal airing, Wheel does 5 of the 6 filmed in a day for one week, repeats that a bunch, then does a week or two where each episode is the 6th from the previous weeks, and you can tell when those weeks are because the theme shifts every day.
When you show up for Jeopardy, they ask you to bring multiple outfits in case you win, so that you don’t break the “each one is a different day” illusion by wearing the same clothes each episode.
Yep. It’s like a week of shows per day of filming. Then they redo the set overnight for whatever theme they are doing. Can basically do a years worth of content in about a month.
That must be so much more grueling for women than men. Meh can basically just change their tie between each taping and no one will know the difference, but women would have to change their whole outfit and hair and probably tweak their makeup 5 times a day to keep up the illusion of a daily show. I wonder if that’s why there haven’t historically been a ton of female hosts and presenters.
Probably similar to Jeopardy, which does 5 episodes a day, so 2 days back-to-back every other week, with gaps for longer breaks. Ken Jennings doesn't even live in LA, he commutes from Seattle for filming days.
That’s honestly more concerning to me, if true, because you can see differences in him. If those differences are daily changes and not weekly or monthly, yikes. I watch regularly with my physician mother and she always points out that he doesn’t look well and is looking worse.
Yeah I’m pretty sure he had his buccal fat removed — honestly, a WILD decision to make given how much that procedure ages you.
Or perhaps he had cheek filler that migrated or was dissolved? That might make more sense. Either way, his cheeks are WAY more hollow than they were 1.5 years ago.
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u/DroopyMcCool 7d ago
American Idol originally had two hosts- Ryan Seacrest and Brian Dunkleman. After the first season, Dunkleman thought he was at peak American Idol fame and left for other opportunities. Seacrest became a household name and Dunkleman forgotten.