Before Pat Sajak was making us laugh on Wheel of Fortune, he was doing the same at WSM in Nashville as their weatherman. How funny was the host when he was in his late 20s during the mid-70s?
ABC sent all of their unscripted series to Hollywood, and seven of them made it to the 2024-2035 season.
The lucky seven are American Idol (season 8 on ABC and 23rd overall), The Bachelor (season 29), and Celebrity Jeopardy! (season 3), Celebrity Wheel of Fortune (season 5), Dancing with the Stars (season 33), Shark Tank (season 16), and What Would You Do? (season 17).
ABC is going to be busy this summer looking for a replacement for Katy Perry, who is leaving American Idol at the end of this season. The network also needs to start looking at who can fill Mark Cuban’s wallet because the mogul announced that next season will be his last on Shark Tank.
Whenever a scripted series does a game show, they make it look so cheesy and fake. And that is what I thought of when I watched Ryan Seacrest’s first promo for Wheel of Fortune.
I know he is safe and vanilla, but is that what we want? I will never get his appeal, but then again, I have never lived in middle America.
Does this make you want to watch him spin the wheel in the Fall?
