Sherri Shepherd in Talks to Host “The Newlywed Game”

[Brian Damage]

Carnie Wilson being removed from The Newlywed Game one way or another may accidentally be the best thing that’s happened to the network in a very long time. Joe Adalian at Vulture, who first reported Carnie Wilson leaving the hit GSN game show, is now saying that Sherri Shepherd is in talks to take over when the show debuts its fourth season.

As we previous said around a week ago, when the show comes back, since Carnie is gone, the show will most likely move back to New York (which is great for all us East-coasters to be selfish for a moment and which Joe confirmed also). Sherri is the co-host of the popular daytime talk show The View on ABC which tapes in New York. We’ve also been told from sources to just not expect Bob Eubanks which is a bit of a bummer but whatever.

I don’t watch The Newlywed Game and who hosts it doesn’t concern me a huge amount, so I’m thinking solely from a business standpoint. The extra promotion GSN could get from landing Sherri would be great. I’ve never watched The View but from what I’ve heard she’s one of the more likable people on that show. Unlike Carnie she’s a popular comedienne who has a major outlet to promote the show and talk about it. She’s a high profile celebrity. It would be a huge publicity boost for them and it would be pretty nice, and it’s not exactly a big surprise that the network doesn’t have huge ratings and the more promotion it can get from something like this the better. We’ll see what happens.

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