[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'250554\' date=\'Nov 9 2010, 08:48 PM\']For one reason or another, Travis doesn't agree with my reasoned analysis and is refuting it with the notion that Millionaire is somehow equal to Jeopardy in importance here in 2010. If we accept the story about Viera leaving Today to travel with her family, wouldn't it follow that she would not have time for Millionaire? The sub-hosts they've had to fill in for Meredith have been uniformly bland and the show is no longer a watercooler conversation topic, so why would it continue without her? Does it even air in prime access in any market? Travis is so fixated on disagreeing with me that he's making absurd statements. Just let me have my opinion, and if it's wrong, so be it.[/quote]
The difficulty is that your analysis isn't particularly reasoned. It's based on gut and nothing more. This is one of those "How dare you let your facts interfere with my opinion" moments. Are you saying with a straight face that Jeopardy is something that the plebes discuss the next morning? Plus you're trying to pull the "taking my ball and going home" card. That doesn't play well here, and you've been here long enough to know this.
Feud is not a water cooler topic either. It's on its fourth host in its current incarnation, but it's got more seasons under its belt than Dawson. Meanwhile, the guest hosts on Millionaire are nothing more than stunt casting, and there's a big difference between letting some goof sit in the hosts chair for a week and hamming it up, and making said goof the face of the show.
That said, I'll offer up random speculation as well: It would more likely follow that they can change the taping schedule to something more compact, as some other syndicated game shows do, knock an entire season out in a month or two, and tell Meredith, "See you next year when it's time to tell you about the new lifeline."
