The original show with Regis was actually pretty good. Tons of families tuned in for a variety of questions to test their knowledge.
After Regis-- WTF is going on with this show??? I turn it on during daytime(it now airs in the afternoon) and there is literally a new host or new format going on every few weeks it seems. It was Meredith Viera, then Terry Crews?!?!?! Then Cedric the Entertainer!!!! LOL. Now it is some other dude that I don't even know.
They changed the hour-long format into this cheesy 30 min. show, with too many commercials and WAY too much extra time deliberating and talking in what seem to be scripted, contrived dialogue with the host, or edited that way. By the time you get halfway interested in the show and get a routine, they stop the regular show part to bring some random bozo from the audience to answer a question or two during the last 5 mins. They changed some of the lifelines several times and the method in choosing contestants, it seems.
The original format was just fine. I don't know why nitwits and producers and pretty much everyone else you have to work with or work for, or watch their productions, or shop for their products= ALWAYS SEEM TO BE FIXING SOMETHING THAT ISN'T BROKEN!!!! WHY? FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, WHY??? It becomes ridiculous.
The contestants all have to give you some dumb backstory on every question, no matter how simple, to explain why they narrowed the choices down, or why their brother's cousin once brought them a monkey from China, so they know the answer must be "China", or something weird. Then they debate whether they should lock it in as their final answer to forbidding music for 3 mins. You don't even have time to enjoy the show because they waste so much damn time on mindless talking/drivel/commercials.
The strange group of hosts they have briefly hired is just bizarre. Terry Crews seems really cool, and is funny in some movies, but he just doesn't fit the part at all. Cedrick is funny, but he looks like a pimp doing his comedy routine, and doesn't really bring a serious presence to the show. Meredith looked like an aging grandma that I was never crazy about. The other guys hosting now, I don't even know, or are really generic and boring. The pool for hosts seems like "List of Random Class Clowns and Dorks I knew in high school", or they just throw darts at a wall of names. Just silly.
The format has been ruined, and ruined a potentially great institution. This show had a lot of good stuff and should be better than it is now. If you want to watch a great 30 min. game of intellect, watch Jeopardy!!! It moves with lightning speed and variety, and doesn't change hosts and rules every month without reason.
After Regis-- WTF is going on with this show??? I turn it on during daytime(it now airs in the afternoon) and there is literally a new host or new format going on every few weeks it seems. It was Meredith Viera, then Terry Crews?!?!?! Then Cedric the Entertainer!!!! LOL. Now it is some other dude that I don't even know.
They changed the hour-long format into this cheesy 30 min. show, with too many commercials and WAY too much extra time deliberating and talking in what seem to be scripted, contrived dialogue with the host, or edited that way. By the time you get halfway interested in the show and get a routine, they stop the regular show part to bring some random bozo from the audience to answer a question or two during the last 5 mins. They changed some of the lifelines several times and the method in choosing contestants, it seems.
The original format was just fine. I don't know why nitwits and producers and pretty much everyone else you have to work with or work for, or watch their productions, or shop for their products= ALWAYS SEEM TO BE FIXING SOMETHING THAT ISN'T BROKEN!!!! WHY? FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, WHY??? It becomes ridiculous.
The contestants all have to give you some dumb backstory on every question, no matter how simple, to explain why they narrowed the choices down, or why their brother's cousin once brought them a monkey from China, so they know the answer must be "China", or something weird. Then they debate whether they should lock it in as their final answer to forbidding music for 3 mins. You don't even have time to enjoy the show because they waste so much damn time on mindless talking/drivel/commercials.
The strange group of hosts they have briefly hired is just bizarre. Terry Crews seems really cool, and is funny in some movies, but he just doesn't fit the part at all. Cedrick is funny, but he looks like a pimp doing his comedy routine, and doesn't really bring a serious presence to the show. Meredith looked like an aging grandma that I was never crazy about. The other guys hosting now, I don't even know, or are really generic and boring. The pool for hosts seems like "List of Random Class Clowns and Dorks I knew in high school", or they just throw darts at a wall of names. Just silly.
The format has been ruined, and ruined a potentially great institution. This show had a lot of good stuff and should be better than it is now. If you want to watch a great 30 min. game of intellect, watch Jeopardy!!! It moves with lightning speed and variety, and doesn't change hosts and rules every month without reason.