Author Topic: Christopher Knight Lands New Hosting Gig (Read 7811 times)

Jimmy Owen · « **on:** October 11, 2009, 10:55:26 AM »

Michigan is getting back into the lottery game show business with Jonathan Goodson. Chris Knight will host I'd rather have someone from Michigan, but oh well.

MizzouRah! · « **Reply #1 on:** October 11, 2009, 11:13:28 AM »

[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'228286\' date=\'Oct 11 2009, 09:55 AM\']Michigan is getting back into the lottery game show business with Jonathan Goodson. Chris Knight will host I'd rather have someone from Michigan, but oh well.[/quote]I love the comment near the end of the article..."host of the wildly popular Trivial Pursuit...America Plays". Funny they didn't explain why it was canceled after the first season.

chad1m · « **Reply #2 on:** October 11, 2009, 02:15:18 PM »

Here's a promo/pitch/advertisement for it. I'm looking forward to it. Some of my earliest game show memories include watching Megabuck$ Giveaway with my family on Saturday evenings.
[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'228286\' date=\'Oct 11 2009, 10:55 AM\']I'd rather have someone from Michigan, but oh well.[/quote]Beth McLeod from the lottery will co-host. Doesn't beat the days of Chuck Gaidica and Aggie Usedly, though.

Neumms · « **Reply #3 on:** October 11, 2009, 02:16:43 PM »

[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'228286\' date=\'Oct 11 2009, 09:55 AM\']Michigan is getting back into the lottery game show business with Jonathan Goodson. Chris Knight will host I'd rather have someone from Michigan, but oh well.[/quote]

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Twentington · « **Reply #4 on:** October 11, 2009, 02:19:46 PM »

As a viewer of WNEM, I'm thoroughly disgusted that THIS is pre-empting Wheel. WNEM loves to pre-empt Wheel.

Matt Ottinger · « **Reply #5 on:** October 11, 2009, 02:21:23 PM »

[quote name=\'chad1m\' post=\'228299\' date=\'Oct 11 2009, 02:15 PM\']Here's a promo/pitch/advertisement for it.[/quote]
My first thought is that nothing says "fresh, new and modern" like recognizable background music from the 1970s.

[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'228286\' date=\'Oct 11 2009, 10:55 AM\']I'd rather have someone from Michigan, but oh well.[/quote]
It's hard to find game show hosts in Michigan.

chad1m · « **Reply #6 on:** October 11, 2009, 02:22:06 PM »

[quote name=\'Twentington\' post=\'228301\' date=\'Oct 11 2009, 02:19 PM\']WNEM loves to pre-empt Wheel.[/quote]Yes, but with local specials or infomercials (which they haven't done in a while) - not with another game show, which I think is perfectly acceptable.

Twentington · « **Reply #7 on:** October 11, 2009, 02:34:30 PM »

[quote name=\'chad1m\' post=\'228303\' date=\'Oct 11 2009, 02:22 PM\'][quote name=\'Twentington\' post=\'228301\' date=\'Oct 11 2009, 02:19 PM\']WNEM loves to pre-empt Wheel.[/quote]Yes, but with local specials or infomercials (which they haven't done in a while) - not with another game show, which I think is perfectly acceptable.
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Not if a.) I don't like lottery game shows much, b.) I want my freaking Wheel, and c.) the only other Wheel affiliate has a tendency to show the wrong episode 40% of the time.

BobbyLankford_83 · « **Reply #8 on:** October 11, 2009, 10:47:37 PM »

[quote name=\'Twentington\' post=\'228306\' date=\'Oct 11 2009, 01:34 PM\'][quote name=\'chad1m\' post=\'228303\' date=\'Oct 11 2009, 02:22 PM\'][quote name=\'Twentington\' post=\'228301\' date=\'Oct 11 2009, 02:19 PM\']WNEM loves to pre-empt Wheel.[/quote]Yes, but with local specials or infomercials (which they haven't done in a while) - not with another game show, which I think is perfectly acceptable.
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Not if a.) I don't like lottery game shows much, b.) I want my freaking Wheel, and c.) the only other Wheel affiliate has a tendency to show the wrong episode 40% of the time.
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Twentington, what other station do you get Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!,too on besides WNEM-TV?. WDIV or WILX-TV?. Every I visit my sis in Coldwater,MI south of Battle Creek, I watch it on WILX-TV and Channel 10 usually shows them in order.

Twentington, WOF and J! need to go back home to WJRT-TV ABC 12,where they were in the 1980's and early 1990's.

Bob Zager · « **Reply #9 on:** October 12, 2009, 01:43:07 PM »

[quote name=\'Twentington\' post=\'228301\' date=\'Oct 11 2009, 02:19 PM\']As a viewer of WNEM, I'm thoroughly disgusted that THIS is pre-empting Wheel. WNEM loves to pre-empt Wheel.[/quote]
WDIV, in Detroit will be pre-empting Jeopardy!

I noticed in the video promo, they used the logo from the original Nickelodeon version of Double Dare, which Jonathan Goodson was NOT involved with. (I know, there was the G-T version!)

Twentington · « **Reply #10 on:** October 12, 2009, 02:26:26 PM »

[quote name=\'BobbyLankford_83\' post=\'228322\' date=\'Oct 11 2009, 10:47 PM\']Twentington, what other station do you get Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!,too on besides WNEM-TV?. WDIV or WILX-TV?. Every I visit my sis in Coldwater,MI south of Battle Creek, I watch it on WILX-TV and Channel 10 usually shows them in order.[/quote]

WBKB out of Alpena. I'm a lot further north than Coldwater.

JIANORAN · « **Reply #11 on:** October 12, 2009, 06:25:40 PM »

I Think Make Me Rich Will Also air on the web at the Michigan Lottery's Web Site, Doing so will be the third lottery game show to air on the web.

BobbyLankford_83 · « **Reply #12 on:** October 12, 2009, 10:01:12 PM »

[quote name=\'Bob Zager\' post=\'228362\' date=\'Oct 12 2009, 12:43 PM\'][quote name=\'Twentington\' post=\'228301\' date=\'Oct 11 2009, 02:19 PM\']As a viewer of WNEM, I'm thoroughly disgusted that THIS is pre-empting Wheel. WNEM loves to pre-empt Wheel.[/quote]
WDIV, in Detroit will be pre-empting Jeopardy!

I noticed in the video promo, they used the logo from the original Nickelodeon version of Double Dare, which Jonathan Goodson was NOT involved with. (I know, there was the G-T version!)
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WDIV pre-empting J!?. Which night, Thursday?. Because when the Michigan Lottery had Superplay in the 1970's it originated at Channel 4 after it moved from WKBD-TV 50 and it aired on Thursdays from 1975-78, when it was canned in July 1978,due to bad demographics.

Expect a lot of pissed off Jeopardy! fans in WDIV land.

xavier45 · « **Reply #13 on:** October 12, 2009, 11:35:08 PM »

[quote name=\'BobbyLankford_83\' post=\'228406\' date=\'Oct 12 2009, 10:01 PM\'][quote name=\'Bob Zager\' post=\'228362\' date=\'Oct 12 2009, 12:43 PM\'][quote name=\'Twentington\' post=\'228301\' date=\'Oct 11 2009, 02:19 PM\']As a viewer of WNEM, I'm thoroughly disgusted that THIS is pre-empting Wheel. WNEM loves to pre-empt Wheel.[/quote]
WDIV, in Detroit will be pre-empting Jeopardy!

I noticed in the video promo, they used the logo from the original Nickelodeon version of Double Dare, which Jonathan Goodson was NOT involved with. (I know, there was the G-T version!)
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WDIV pre-empting J!?. Which night, Thursday?.
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Since this show is airing Friday, I would expect Friday.

polo23 · « **Reply #14 on:** October 18, 2009, 03:54:33 AM »

Here's a useless pre-emption for WNEM. Thursday's Jeopardy is replaced for the annual unwatched Weather Survival special.

Author Topic: Christopher Knight Lands New Hosting Gig (Read 7811 times)

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