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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: aaron sica on July 10, 2024, 01:42:53 PM
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.....stay with the primetime celebrity version of Wheel.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/pat-sajak-returning-celebrity-wheel-of-fortune-fall-2024-1235945109/
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Beat me to posting this. Premieres October 7, and AFAIK will run only on weeks Monday Night Football is not on ABC.
If I have it right, primetime Celebrity Jeopardy is being held until midseason, with no clear word on who is hosting.
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I see this more as a transitory thing. Pat will barely be out of the role (due to reruns) starting this fall, and I don't think ABC wants to mess with something that is currently working good enough from a ratings perspective. Once Ryan gets his footing in the syndicated show, I could see him taking over the Celebrity version as well.
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If I have it right, primetime Celebrity Jeopardy is being held until midseason, with no clear word on who is hosting.
Well, if the newest videos on their YouTube channel are any indication, only Ken appears now in the "click to subscribe" tag at the end...
I see this more as a transitory thing. Pat will barely be out of the role (due to reruns) starting this fall, and I don't think ABC wants to mess with something that is currently working good enough from a ratings perspective. Once Ryan gets his footing in the syndicated show, I could see him taking over the Celebrity version as well.
If it was somebody other than Ryan Seacrest taking over the MC role, not messing with a working formula is something I could see; but it's Ryan Seacrest. What can't he host, and who wouldn't watch him?
/Pat Sajak 1989: "I'm leaving the network show but not the syndicated show."
//Pat Sajak 2024: "I'm leaving the syndicated show but not the network show."
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Ryan will be busy with American Idol on ABC primetime
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Ryan will be busy with American Idol on ABC primetime
Idol is in the spring. CWOF wouldn't interfere at all.
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Sources indicate Pat was already contractually committed to this, and Sony and ABC knew about this when the prime time renewal was announced in the spring.
Somehow someone somewhere felt actually telling anyone this before the big final week wasn't worth the risk of the ratings bump.
Discuss...
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I was wondering about Celeb WOF when Pat signed off on the syndie version last month. So Pat and Vanna will continue to work together.