Where will the next Alex Trebek come from if celebrities keep hosting game shows?

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https://hmmdaily.com/2019/06/03/holl...tv-game-shows/

The recent news that A-list talent like Alec Baldwin, Dwayne Johnson, Elizabeth Banks, Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish and Jamie Foxx are making as much as $450,000 an episode hosting game shows raises the question of whether professional game show hosts are becoming extinct. Those big-name hosts are "like feral hogs tearing up the delicate employment ecosystem, trampling their way into jobs and ruining the next possible crop of real game show hosts the same way TV and movie stars have overwhelmed professional voice actors in animated features," says Joe MacLeod. "Real game show hosts such as such as Bob Barker, Alex Trebek, and ... Chris Harrison, are individuals with no apparent talent other than the ineffable gift of being able to move a game show along without being all self-aware and ironic about it, and only mildly contemptuous of the shlubs who are on as contestants. Chris Harrison is a Presenter, a Pitchman, a Host. He’s not a movie star. Same for Trebek. Drew Carey taking over Bob Barker’s The Price is Right is marginal because he doesn’t wink at the camera like 'Can you believe I’m doing this?' Carey is so Low Energy he mutated himself out of being an entertainer and is now a relatable regular person. Also I support Snoop Dogg taking over The Joker’s Wild because his job description is Rapper but he is also by profession a Master of Ceremonies. Celebrity hosts are disrupting the natural progression of real game show hosts."

[Hawkee]

When new game shows are announced they are usually made to attract a huge audience and usually require a celebrity that may have the talent and skills to host the show and so with stars like Dax Shepard and Elizabeth Banks making their game show debuts we are seeing a new breed of game show hosts that will become famous as time goes by. But one guy that is so awesome that would make a great game show host is FOX News anchor Tucker Carlson and if you have seen his Final Exam segments on Tucker Carlson Tonight you could swear that Tucker Carlson could easily become a game show host. But like in the 50's 60's and 70's when every good sitcom had a star that became a teen hearthrob the same formula applies to game show hosts who are new to the the job. Take for example when Chuck Woolery made his debut as a game show host he started out as virtually unknown because to many people he was a country singer but if it wasn't for Wheel Of Fortune Love Connection Scrabble Greed and Lingo Chuck Woolery's success had skyrocketed him to the top. And as for who could be the next Chuck Woolery I think a sitcom star like Jason Bateman could be a future game show host and just like Regis Philbin I think James Corden could be the next Regis Philbin. But whatever the future holds in the game show world we will soon see a new crop of new game show hosts making their marks and a huge name for themselves in TV
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