Haven’t much watched Supernatural since the entire Leviathan arc. At that point, it just felt like they were flailing around for SOME damn thing to do with the show.
Wow! You say?
I say, “Wow! Wow! Wow! Holy Shit! Wow!”
How did I ever miss getting into Show Biz? Holy Shit!
Pretty good work… if you can get it.
And The Price Is Right has been on longer than that, first with Bob Barker, and now with Drew Carey (it’s on Season 44 now).
There’s a question for a whole new thread: Can a game show jump the shark? Examples? I don’t think I’ve ever watched enough episodes of a game show to be able to wrap my head around the concept… except maybe Hollywood Squares, which was always kind of funny.
I’d guess no. You might have some sort of over-the-top moment – although I can’t imagine what? Wheel of Fortune inside a volcano? – but they’re going to likely go back to the same old format afterward.
You do, of course, have game shows that transition from prime time to syndicated off-channels like Weakest Link, Win Lose or Draw or Who Wants to be a Millionaire but I don’t know that they “jumped the shark” so much as prime time audiences just got bored with them. The basic show is still the same.
Sure, when they switch hosts.
When Wheel of Fortune went away from the “store” where you had to spend your winnings (“I’ll take the ceramic dog for $350, and the fondue set for $100, and the rest on account.”) .
But they’re been away from that far longer than they ever had it. And I hated it when they did have it. I’ll just take the money, thanks.
You’ve clearly never seen Three’s a Crowd because it was about Jack living (in sin) with his girlfriend from the last episodes of Three’s Company, with her father, his new landlord, as the new conflict in the series. Absolutely nothing about it made Jack married (they weren’t) or a family man (no kids, the series was way too shortlived for that to have happened).
Incorrect. The first host was Bill Cullen, 1956–65. I remember watching it when I was a kid. Bob Barker’s version was a revival. Before that, he hosted Truth or Consequences.
A lot of the Lucille Ball shows of the 1960s. “The Lucy Show” started pretty well because it had Vivian Vance and Desilu needed a hit. Ball was only suppose to do it for a year or two. People were worried how it would work without Desi Arnaz and competing with "I Love Lucy"s success. But eventually Vance left, Ball got rid of several writers, she got more involved with Desilu business and relied on cue cards. No real continuity in “Here’s Lucy”. The last year it was 29th in ratings which is on the border of cancellation, plus CBS was going towards a younger market. But except for James Arness and “Gunsmoke”, Lucy outlasted other 1950s tv stars.