Download or read book Television Game Show Hosts written by David Baber and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-06-14 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique work profiles the private lives and careers of 32 American game show hosts, including the originals (e.g., Bill Cullen, Peter Marshall), the classics (e.g., Bob Barker), and the contemporaries (e.g., Regis Philbin). Organized by host, each chapter includes birth and family information and a complete career history. The most significant developments of each host’s early life and career are highlighted—complete with successes, failures, and scandals. Many of the biographies are accompanied by interviews with the host or his family and friends.

Download or read book Come on Down written by Jefferson Graham and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of TV's most popular form of entertainment moves from radio game precursors through the changing face of game shows and the great game-rigging scandals, to today's popular shows, with highlights on the hosts and other showmen and women who keepthe games going

Download or read book TV Game Shows written by Maxene Fabe and published by Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday. This book was released on 1979 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From the original radio quiz shows through the scandal-ridden fifties up to today's extravaganzas, TV Game Shows takes you behind the sets of this uniquely American phenomenon. Here are the 10 worst and the 40 best shows of all time, the contestants, the hosts and the celebrities, the prizes and the profits, the questions and the quizzes ... Includes a complete list of every game show ever aired."--Cover.

Download or read book The Encyclopedia of TV Game Shows written by David Schwartz and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information about the packager, broadcast history, hosts, announcers, producers, and rules for over five hundred television game shows

Download or read book Priceless Memories written by Bob Barker and published by Center Street. This book was released on 2009-04-06 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In front of the camera, he has been invited into the homes of millions of Americans as host of The Price Is Right, Truth or Consequences, Miss USA, Miss Universe, The Rose Parade, and many other programs and specials. Now Bob Barker shares stories of favorite contestants, episodes, celebrity encounters, and behind-the-scenes happenings. Beyond his public persona, he will open up about his personal life. From being raised on a Native American reservation by a single mother through the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl, to training as a pilot in the Navy during World War II, through his romance with the love of his life and high school sweetheart, Dorothy Jo, and his success at retirement. His support of animal rights has always been a central part of his life. Bob delves into stories of how he has taken on Hollywood and the government in his crusade, including his anti-fur stand-off with beauty pageants, his involvement in uncovering animal abuse in movies and television, and the legislation he helped to pass. He also shares personal stories of rescuing animals, from dogs to elephants. For the innumerable fans who have welcomed Bob into their homes over the last fifty years, this book will be like catching up with a dear and familiar friend who continues to lead a full and endlessly interesting life.

Download or read book Game Show FAQ written by Adam Nedeff and published by Applause Theatre & Cinema. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GAME SHOWS FAQ: ALL THATS LEFT TO KNOW ABOUT THE PIONEERS THE JACKPOTS THE SCANDAL

Download or read book The TV Game Shows written by Norman Blumenthal and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Answer Is written by Alex Trebek and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A RECOMMENDED SUMMER READ BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, TIME, AND NEWSWEEK Longtime Jeopardy! host and television icon Alex Trebek reflects on his life and career. Since debuting as the host of Jeopardy! in 1984, Alex Trebek has been something like a family member to millions of television viewers, bringing entertainment and education into their homes five nights a week. Last year, he made the stunning announcement that he had been diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer. What followed was an incredible outpouring of love and kindness. Social media was flooded with messages of support, and the Jeopardy! studio received boxes of cards and letters offering guidance, encouragement, and prayers. For over three decades, Trebek had resisted countless appeals to write a book about his life. Yet he was moved so much by all the goodwill, he felt compelled to finally share his story. “I want people to know a little more about the person they have been cheering on for the past year,” he writes in The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life. The book combines illuminating personal anecdotes with Trebek’s thoughts on a range of topics, including marriage, parenthood, education, success, spirituality, and philanthropy. Trebek also addresses the questions he gets asked most often by Jeopardy! fans, such as what prompted him to shave his signature mustache, his insights on legendary players like Ken Jennings and James Holzhauer, and his opinion of Will Ferrell’s Saturday Night Live impersonation. The book uses a novel structure inspired by Jeopardy!, with each chapter title in the form of a question, and features dozens of never-before-seen photos that candidly capture Trebek over the years. This wise, charming, and inspiring book is further evidence why Trebek has long been considered one of the most beloved and respected figures in entertainment.

Download or read book The Matchless Gene Rayburn Hardback written by Adam Nedeff and published by BearManor Media. This book was released on 2016-01-21 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the HARDBACK version. "I got interested in Gene Rayburn during the 1990s, when I was a teenager and I discovered a marvelous cable channel called Game Show Network. I'd been a fan of game shows my entire life, and I was excited about seeing all these shows that I just vaguely remembered from my early childhood. My biggest surprise was how obsessed I became with a show I had never heard of until I got Game Show Network; a show that was cancelled the same year I was born, funnily enough. It was a show called Match Game. Gene Rayburn, of course, was the host of Match Game, and I appreciated right away how different he was from other game show hosts. He was so hammy and mischievous and physical, and he fit the show he was hosting better than anybody I had ever seen hosting a game show. He and Match Game were absolutely made for each other. I think the biggest discovery I made was the way Gene just got repeatedly sidetracked during his career. He came to New York to become a star in musical theater. When he couldn't find work in musical theater, he wound up becoming a disc jockey. And after a decade of that, he decided to try being a television star. That didn't work out right away, so he took a job announcing a new show. Well, that turned out to be The Tonight Show. His career, right up to the end, was filled with little detours. Gene always wound up doing something besides what he was really trying to do. John Lennon was right and Gene was the proof; life is what happens when you're making other plans. The biggest pitfall I encountered was the dearth of materials from earlier in Gene's career. Because reruns weren't a consideration for so long, a considerable chunk of the man's work in television is just gone. Think about it-he's best remembered for the 1970s version of Match Game, a job that he started when he was 55 years old. So finding resources from earlier than that could be surprisingly tricky, but that made it all the more exciting when I finally did see the occasional kinescope or hear an audio recording. I think readers will enjoy #1, the memories, if they enjoy Match Game as much as I do, and #2, the surprises. Gene really had a remarkable career outside of that show. My hope for this book is that it makes that image on the TV screen a little more three-dimensional. Gene was very human, very flawed; he had his frustrations and disappointments like the rest of us." -- The Author

Download or read book The Hosts the Contestants and Me written by The Evil Chocolate Cookie and published by The Evil Chocolate Cookie. This book was released on 2022-04-11 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Game shows are special to me for many reasons. Some have had a deep, long-lasting effect on my life. In this book, I try to explain the shows, as well as how I feel about each of them and what they have done to shape me into the person I am.

Download or read book Game Show Confidential written by Boze Hadleigh and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-05-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Game and quiz shows first started appearing on radio broadcasts in the 1930s, led by the CBS network’s Professor Quiz, hosted by a man who was neither a professor nor even a college graduate, the first of several frauds that seemed to be endemic to the genre. Professor Quiz was followed by other such game shows as Uncle Jim’s Question Bee and Ask It Basket, which in turn spawned successful box games for at-home play. The show Truth or Consequences made the transition from radio to television in the late 1940s and was so popular that a town in New Mexico was named for the show. Television proved to be the perfect platform for game shows since they were very popular and cheap to produce. Even in reruns today, the older shows still draw huge audiences. This book describes the evolution of the game show, its larger-than-life producers and hosts, as well as the scandals that have rocked it from time to time, including bloopers from such “adult” oriented shows as The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game, and Hollywood Squares. This is an entertaining and lively look at an American phenomenon whose popularity doesn’t seem to be going away.

Download or read book The Host with the Most written by Todd Newton and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-14 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award winning television personality Todd Newton only had one career aspiration as a boy: to be someone television viewers enjoyed tuning in to see. From an early age Newton looked up to TV icons Johnny Carson and Bob Barker simply because they entertained millions of Americans by being themselves. Today the same can be said for Todd Newton. From interviewing the world's most famous faces on the red carpets of Hollywood to sharing life-changing moments with game show contestants as they win piles of cash, Newton has mastered the art of being the man you want to invite over for dinner or have a drink with. Join The Host with the Most as he openly shares his journey from a chubby Midwestern kid with a dream to becoming one of the most familiar faces on the air today. You'll find his stories to be as colorful as the tattoos that adorn his body.

Download or read book The Encyclopedia of TV Game Shows written by David Schwartz and published by Checkmark Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of TV Game Shows, Third Edition, is a television lover's treasure trove, containing detailed facts and tidbits about one of America's best-loved TV genres: game shows. Featuring more than 175 rare and exclusive photographs, the encyclopedia explores more than 500 shows and provides information on their air dates, network affiliation, creators, producers, hosts and hostesses, and notable celebrity guests and panelists. The book also explains the rules of each game, details the sometimes outrageous stunts required to play it, and lists the fabulous (and not-so-fabulous) payoffs available to the game's winner.

Download or read book No Shirt No Shoes No Problem written by Jeff Foxworthy and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2009-06-15 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's favorite Southern-fried, stand-up comedian and TV sitcom star Jeff Foxworthy brings his humor to the page in this riotous laugh-out-loud book. In No Shirt. No Shoes. . . . No Problem!, Foxworthy examines the hilarity of growing up, love, sex, crazy families, roommates, friendship, mooning, having a crush on your cousin, and the real stories behind many of his favorite Redneck jokes. So get ready: You're in for a helluva good time!

Download or read book TV Game Shows written by and published by A & E Home Video. This book was released on 2007-07-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses archival footage and commentary to explore the history, appeal, hosts, contestants, and outrageous moments of television game shows.

Download or read book Games in the Global Village written by Anne Cooper-Chen and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Q. What is the most-watched TV format in history, seen by about 100 million people weekly around the world? A. Wheel of Fortune, a game show. Without putdowns or pandering, the author looks at 260 such shows, concluding that culture has triumphed over technology. For despite our capacity to transmit the same content world-wide, McLuhan's global village has not come to pass. Technology has, however, encouraged already-existing "cultural continents" to coalesce. About one-third of the world's game shows have been licensed or adapted from another country, especially from the United States. Conversely, a single program can cross borders unchanged, such as Sabado Gigante, which appeals to Spanish speakers in 18 countries. The first truly global study of TV entertainment, this book includes interviews with producers, contestants, and licensers. With its tables, illustrations and appendices, the text provides details on content and audiences, as well as explanatory overviews.

Download or read book This Day in Game Show History 365 Commemorations and Celebrations Vol 2 written by Adam Nedeff and published by . This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Game shows have more stories to tell than they have washers and dryers to give away. This Day in Game Show History is a remarkable four-volume set chronicling the best stories-on camera and off-and the most noteworthy milestones for every day in the year. In this volume, you'll find out which game show had to build a new set as part of a lawsuit settlement...What exactly a Sony ECM-51 is and how often you saw them on television...Which legendary newsman hosted more game shows than Bob Barker and Pat Sajak combined...the game show host who moonlighted as a voice coach for TV anchormen...which radio game show was briefly interrupted when a contestant went into labor and gave birth on the air...and lots, lots more! ADAM NEDEFF has experienced TV game shows from both sides of the camera. As a contestant, he has played Trivial Pursuit: America Plays, Catch-21, and Who's Still Standing? As an employee, he has worked for The Price is Right and Wheel of Fortune. He is a freelance writer and former disc jockey originally from Vienna, West Virginia, and now residing in Glendale, California.