Sending Best wishes and a speedy recovery to Pat.
Does anyone know what the taping lead time is for Wheel? Is it similar to Jeopardy and a couple months?
I’d like to see how Vanna does hosting the show.
Who’s going to reveal the letters? :dubious: 
I don’t know what the lead time is for WoF, but they tape a week’s worth of shows in a day. And then the next day they do another day’s worth. And so on, for four days, and then they get the rest of the month off.
So they tape five plus four shows in a week? Or did you mean to say five shows every day of the week? 
Talk about being thrown in the deep end. They should give her a little experience on the set first.
I won’t say which show, but I was at a taping of a quiz show where the entire first round of 16 shows was shot in a weekend (Saturday & Sunday). The actual quizzing was a total of about 10 minutes out of the 30 minute show. So they actually got a show shot in about 45 minutes. Including a bunch of retakes where the host stumbled on a question or mispronounced a word.
The host had a change of wardrobe between each show. Or at least shirt, jacket and tie.
The quarterfinals were the following weekend, then the semifinals and finals on a third weekend a few weeks later.
I only watched one contest, but we were hanging out in the lobby for hours where there was a sort of geek carnival on. The audience was switched over each game. Every hour on the hour. No break for lunch or anything.
So who will they have standing next to the puzzle and pointing at it?
I give Vanna White credit. There was a period back in the late eighties when it looked like she might become a major star. A lot of people in the same position would have quit their job turning letters on a game show. White didn’t; she kept working her “day job” while she took advantage of the opportunities her increased popularity offered.
As it turned out, White never made it to the next level. But unlike most people in the same situation, she didn’t disappear. She still had a job - which I guess at this point has been a career - on Wheel of Fortune.
Plenty of actors would kill for a “day job” co-hosting a long-running game show.
I can vouch for this. 
Jeopardy did five shows Monday and five shows Tuesday, and I guess worked on production for the rest of the week. My show had a time lag of about two months before it was broadcast, but it was the second week of the new season so later ones might be longer.
Jeopardy and Wheel are filmed next door to each other, and so I’d assume they are similar.
Chuck Woolery?
Only until they have it.
A lot of actors seem to feel they’re destined for greater things. So whatever success they currently have, they only see it as a stepping stone. They’re eager to move on to the next bigger success. They don’t seem to consider that their current success might be the peak of their career and it’s all downhill from now on.
I’m waiting for a contestant to have a Freudian slip and ask to buy a bowel.
\ last time I watched it looked like they used touch screens and she just tapped them as she walked by or they just lit up as she pointed and i might be wrong but i think shes filled in at least once before for pat
It’s hard to poke fun at someone who works 35 days a year and pulls down $10 million. What’s so great about being an actor anyway?
The Vanna hosted shows are slated to begin airing the week of Dec. 9.
I believe that a lot of the same production people who work on Wheel also work on Jeopardy! They are both taped at Sony Studios in Culver City.
When I was on Jeopardy! a couple of years ago, it recorded a week’s worth of shows in a single day, recording on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. My impression was that Wheel did the same, but recorded their shows on Thursday and Friday. I don’t know if this schedule has changed since then, or if Alex Trebek’s illness has had any affect on it.
I can tell you that on the Thursday morning after my day of recording, while I was waiting at the hotel for the Uber to take me to the airport, I saw a group of Wheel contestants waiting in the lobby for the van to take them to the studio.
Who’s aj?
What’s Susan Stafford up to these days?