[quote name=\'TLEberle\' post=\'239985\' date=\'Apr 26 2010, 12:28 AM\'][quote name=\'Otm Shank\' post=\'239915\' date=\'Apr 24 2010, 08:40 AM\']Format of the show is not relevant to the talent[/quote]It absolutely is.
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I do agree. In my brevity, I wound up implying something else. I meant for the sake of discussion, let's leave the format aside. Seeing that would potentially stop the conversation, I did offer up a hypothetical. Essentially, the question is, as someone else put it more succinctly, where is the "undiscovered" talent?
But there have, indeed, been some really bad host/format mismatches.
My thought was some of the entertainment news programs: like Bob Goen, Billy Bush, and perpetual piloter Tim Vincent. (And didn't Pat O'Brien host something?) But I don't watch them to know who's on there.
Sportscasters are an interesting talent niche, but as long as there is sports, there is a forever job as long as you don't screw it up. Game shows, even good ones, get canceled.
Interesting suggestions so far.