Today, some quick takes at the pointillist mural of madness unfolding before our eyes: a game show host debacle, lots of Disney and make sure to read the link around the ongoing unraveling of Time’s Up
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Leaving on a Jep Plane: On the plus side, the loss of a gameshow host isn’t the Afghanistan debacle. There was no generation of a nation sentenced to grim servitude and death as a result of the “Jeopardy” transition.
But by our standards, within the Hollywood footprint, I think we can still call this, not ideal.
Hard to imagine how you could handle the historic transition of a beloved show worse than Sony has managed with “Jeopardy”. Let’s see…after a long, very public celebrated search for a new host to replace the late iconic helmsman, you settle on the show’s producer? In this climate…a smarmy white guy executive with almost no on-camera experience?
And despite the fact that this search has been going on for…years…and that the ultimate victor has been right in front of you the whole time…you were still unaware of his banter on a podcast that The Ringer was able to dig up in a week?
Or…after all Hollywood has been through, you didn’t have a sense of how that would go over? When resurfaced about your smarmy producer guy that you think should be the host? And you had no plan for how to deal with that?
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