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Colbi King: From the Andy B's bowling lounge, it's time for.............
Your news......with a pinch of salt. Presented by Jet's Pizza. It's gotta be Jet's. The official sponsor of UWN Championship Wrestling. Here now is Pierre Kelly!
Me: Hi everyone, good afternoon from the Bermuda Triangle area and Happy Snort day. Hope you'e not drunk and tipsy at the party we threw last night.
Actor, director and educator LeVar Burton will receive the first Insight Award from the Library of American Broadcasting Foundation (LABF) in recognition of his extraordinary contributions to broadcasting, history and American culture. Burton will be honored during the NAB Show Welcome on Monday, April 25, Las Vegas.
Reflective of LABF’s purpose, the Insight Award recognizes an individual or organization for an outstanding artistic or journalistic work or body of work that enhances the public’s understanding of the role, operation, history or impact of media in our society.
Burton’s best-known acting credits are as Kunta Kinte in the acclaimed television mini-series Roots and as Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge in Star Trek: The Next Generation, which aired in syndication from 1987 to 1994 and launched several feature films.
A lifelong children’s literacy advocate, Burton was host and executive producer of PBS’s Reading Rainbow, one of the longest-running children’s television shows in history, during its 26-year run from 1983 to 2009. The show received more than 25 Emmy Awards, including 10 for Outstanding Children’s Series, and was honored with a George Foster Peabody Award in 1992.
Burton will host the televised semifinals and finals of the 94th Scripps National Spelling Bee in June 2022. His production company, LeVar Burton Entertainment (LBE), and Hasbro’s content studio Entertainment One (eOne) are developing Hasbro’s classic trivia game, Trivial Pursuit, into a gameshow format, which will feature Burton as host and an executive producer.
Survivor made history on Wednesday night. Scary history! On day 7 of Survivor 42, three tribes were pitted against each other in an immunity challenge that had the teams start on a platform out in the water. They were then supposed to swim over and retrieve a ladder off the ocean floor, use it while still out in the water to reach a key that would unlock sandbags, which then needed to land on five targets back on the beach. But it didn't turn out that way.
While the Taku tribe was able to complete the contest due to the He-Man like performance of Jonathan Young (who single handedly did pretty much everything, including chasing down players being carried away by the tide), the other two tribes (Ika and Vati) were pummeled by waves and a current that kept sending players way off course.
Both tribes struggled mightily in the surf and were nowhere close to being able to complete the water portion of the challenge. So host Jeff Probst eventually got them out of the water. For the first time in Survivor history, Probst and producers stepped in and called a temporary halt to the challenge. They brought both tribes (who were at the same point futilely attempting to raise their ladders) up onto the beach and allowed them to skip the key retrieval portion of the contest and go straight through to the bean bag toss, which Ika eventually took second place in, sending Vati to Tribal Council.
Dublin-based BiggerStage has wrapped production on the second season of Fox’s primetime reality competition series Name That Tune alongside Fox Alternative Entertainment (FAE).
Season one (10×60’), launching on Fox on March 29, was produced out of Australia by FAE, Prestige Entertainment and Eureka Productions. The project relocated to Ireland for its second run.
BiggerStage, launched a year ago by Pat Kiely, is focused on TV production, talent management and commercial partnerships. The company previously partnered with FAE last summer on variety/competition series The Big Deal for Ireland’s Virgin Media Television.
According to BiggerStage, its involvement in season two of Name That Tune represents the first time that an Irish producer has produced a primetime entertainment show for a US network.
Want to see ladies play with their large decks?! Watch #Free4All.
— #Free4All with Shawn Tempesta (@Free4AllShow) March 24, 2022
📺 Watch #Free4All weeknights at 7pm PT: https://t.co/vUGU6sxTOx pic.twitter.com/GkSWxlRHim
And here's another sample.
Oh boy. Don't get greedy, @alexdelbarrio.
— #Free4All with Shawn Tempesta (@Free4AllShow) March 4, 2022
📺 Watch #Free4All weeknights at 7pm PT: https://t.co/vUGU6sxTOx pic.twitter.com/7NGRFBfMPx
To put the bow on the gift, there's always The Phrase That Raids. Why? I'll let you read it.
The rules of #ThePhraseThatRaids at the end of every show: if we show up in your Twitch chat asking us to "Tell Me WHY"... do it.
And that is pretty much Free4All. The link to join is right here:
https://www.twitch.tv/free4allshow
So Free4All, here's another Phrase that pays.............
You are the Twitchhead of the month for April of 2022. You get an imaginary plaque to hang on the wall, bragging rights and what else, Colbi King?
Me: A British Pound. If you want the kids to watch this show, then subsitute that Vietnamese money thing with a British pound. It'll make Free4All a PG affair. Pierre?
Me: Thanks Colbi, tune in again to see who else is making money moves on Twitch.
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There are certain ways one can become a Jeopardy! icon. Usually, that is by going on an impressive winning streak or succeeding in the Tournament of Champions. Or, you can just be really funny, like a contestant on Thursday’s episode.
Joel Levinson, a content strategist from Ohio, was obviously on Jeopardy! for a good time, not a long time. He immediately won viewers over with this curly hair and mustache, which drew comparisons to Sacha Baron Cohen‘s popular character Borat. Levinson was playful from the start, giving a nod and shrug to the camera like a character in the intro to a 1980s sitcom.
At one point in the episode, Levinson adopted a high-pitched voice when answering the clue, “Put on your gauntlet and wire-mesh mask.” The sudden change in inflection took host Ken Jennings by surprise. “Never heard that voice before, Joel,” Jennings said.
The highlight, however, came in Final Jeopardy!, when Levinson gave a humorous answer that he obviously knew was incorrect. Answering the clue, “This 1962 classic was dedicated to Albert Schweitzer, who predicted that man ‘will end by destroying the earth.’,” Levinson wrote down Judy Blume’s 1970 novel Are You There God? It’s me, Margaret.
“I’m afraid that’s not correct,” Jennings said with a chuckle.
Commenting on the moment on social media afterwards, Levinson wrote, “Bucket list checked – name checked my beloved @judyblume in final – if you’re not gonna know the answer you might as well call to god for help.”
The correct answer was actually Silent Spring by Rachel Carson. Levinson didn’t mind, though, as he was smart enough not to bid on his joke answer. And even though he wasn’t successful on the show, he can rest assured that he won over a lot of hearts in the process.
And in other Jeopardy! news...........
Alex Trebek spent many decades hosting the popular game show, "Jeopardy!" but the best part of his life was spent with his partner of over three decades, Jean Currivan. The lovebirds met at a party in 1988 and clicked right away.
Trebek hosted "Jeopardy!" for four years before meeting Currivan and had just divorced his first wife, Elaine Callei. Currivan was working as a part-time bookkeeper for one of Trebek's friends. She was 24 years younger than the famous host.
Currivan also admitted to sharing Trebek's feelings for her, but she also felt anxious about dating the iconic "Jeopardy!" host. She told People, "I was afraid I'd mispronounce my own name! But Alex is really down to earth. He's much more casual than he is on the show."
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