TVNewsCheck‘s Michael Depp learns the trade secrets of game show hosting from Pictionary host Jerry O’Connell, who says a tight syndication market demands a stellar product to survive.
The game show originally ran as a limited summer series on select Fox TV stations in July and has been officially greenlit as a syndicated series.
CBS daytime show The Talk announced Tuesday that frequent guest host Jerry O’Connell is joining the show as a permanent co-host.
Jerry O’Connell, a favorite among daytime TV fans, is nearing a deal to become a full-time co-host on The Talk, a person with knowledge of the conversations says. He’ll effectively replace Sharon Osbourne, who left the CBS show in March. A second individual says negotiations between O’Connell and the talk show have been on and off since at least May.
