Instruct: Given a question, retrieve relevant passages that answer the question.
Query: Who was the first host of the game show "What's My Line?"?
In 1980, Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Productions, creators of "What's My Line?", produced "That's My Line" which also highlighted the unusual occupations of ordinary people. However, the show was developed as a reality show and had no panel or game elements. "What's My Line?" announcer Johnny Olson was the announcer, and Bob Barker was the host for the show which ran for two seasons on CBS.
Game Show Network launched at 7:00 p.m. ET on December 1, 1994. The first aired game show was "What's My Line?". From 1994 until about 1997, the network aired classic pre-1972 game shows as well as game shows made after 1972, most of which came from the Mark Goodson–Bill Todman library. The network aired game shows in a 24-hour cycle, and also used live interstitials as wraparound programming. In its first few months, GSN's commercials consisted of public service announcements (PSAs), promotions for its programming and commercials related to network parent company Sony. By 1995, when the network began to expand, the network began accepting conventional advertising as it gained new sponsorships. On March 17, 1997, the Game Show Network rebranded with a new presentation package and a new logo (which had the network's name in boxes and a colorful swirling ball) and a new slogan "All Play, All Day". While the logo changed, its programming remained unchanged, the network also debuted new promos and new idents on that day, which were designed by graphics agency Lee Hunt Associates.
The network has run blocks of classic game shows on Saturday nights, and for the first few months of 2006 programmed back-to-back episodes of "Match Game" in a block billed as "That '70s Hour" (a pun on "That '70s Show"), which showed the original production slate before each episode as well as "Match Game" trivia and brief clips of an interview with host Gene Rayburn produced shortly before his death. Although production slates had been aired by the network prior to this, "That '70s Hour" was the first time the network "intentionally" did so. During the Summer of 2006, the network began a special seven-week run of "The 50 Greatest Game Shows of All Time".
The next year Barris began "The Newlywed Game", originally created by Nick Nicholson and E. Roger Muir, also for ABC. The combination of the newlywed couples' humorous candor and host Bob Eubanks's sly questioning made the show another hit for Barris. The show is the longest lasting of any developed by his company, broadcast until 1985, for a total of 19 full years on both "first run" network TV and syndication. Game Show Network airs a current version with Sherri Shepherd. Interviewed on the NPR program "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" on August 1, 2009, Barris said that "The Newlywed Game" was the easiest program he had developed: "All I needed was four couples, eight questions, and a washer-dryer."
From 1998 to 2001, MTV also aired several other music video programs from its studios in Times Square and on location at various beach-themed locations each summer. These programs included "Say What? Karaoke", a game show hosted by Dave Holmes that evolved from "Say What?", MTV's earlier program that ran the lyrics of music videos across the screen. "TRL Wannabes" aired from 1999 to 2000 and featured a selection of music videos that just missed the "TRL" top ten. "VJ for a Day", hosted by Raymond Munns, continued this concept in early 2001. "VJ for a Day" was an extension of an annual event, "Wanna be a VJ", which aired each spring from 1998 to 2000 to select a new VJ to host programs on MTV.
"The New York Times" wrote that, "Under Ms. Hoover's direction, the discourse is civil and substantive." A show review by the "National Review" states, "the reincarnation of Firing Line comes at an interesting time, and a needful one." In the run-up to the show's premier Politico said, "It seems like a great idea, so let's test drive it and see what happens." CNN anchor Poppy Harlow stated that "Firing Line with Margaret Hoover" "is appointment television in my house" on "CNN Newsroom".
On February 25, 2008, GSN returned to live television games and debuted "GSN Live", a live interactive call-in show, hosted by Heidi Bohay and Fred Roggin. The show was similar in format to a former Game Show Network program, "Club A.M.", and aired weekdays from Noon to 3:00 p.m. ET during breaks between the programming line-up at the time. The show featured calls from viewers, interviews with classic game show hosts and behind-the-scenes features of game shows. At three separate points in each day, interactive games were played with at-home contestants. Contestants could win anything from jewelry to GSN merchandise, or during month-long contests, a new car or a hot tub.
Howard Michael Mandel (born November 29, 1955) is a Canadian comedian, actor and television host. He hosts the NBC game show "Deal or No Deal", as well as the show's daytime and Canadian-English counterparts. In 1987, Mandel starred alongside Amy Steel in the comedy film "Walk Like a Man". From 1982 to 1988 Mandel played rowdy ER intern Dr. Wayne Fiscus on the NBC medical drama "St. Elsewhere". He also created and starred in the children's cartoon "Bobby's World", and judges on NBC's "America's Got Talent".
The line-up however was changed when the network signed Thomas Gottschalk and developed a new evening talk show for him. "Gottschalk Live" premiered in January 2012, causing "Verbotene Liebe" to lose about six minutes per episode and being a rival to "Unter uns" again. The talk show failed miserably and was canceled in June 2012. That led to the network changing the air time of "Verbotene Liebe" yet again. It was announced that the soap opera would return to its old time slot at 6:00pm. However, "VL" actually airs now around 6:10pm. Fans complained about the several air time changes, indicating that the glamor soap and former glory of the Das Erste evening program has become the ugly step-child.
The programme was created by writer David Wolstencroft, and produced by Kudos for the BBC. A trademark style, coupled with the series' popularity, attracted a large number of high-profile guest stars. These included Martine McCutcheon, Hugh Laurie, Haluk Bilginer, Robert Hardy, Tim McInnerny, Bruce Payne, Reece Dinsdale, Ian McDiarmid, Ewen Bremner, Jimi Mistry, Andy Serkis, Benedict Cumberbatch, Kevin McNally, Rupert Graves, Andrew Tiernan, Anton Lesser, Anupam Kher, Alexander Siddig, and Anthony Head.
In 2000, the reality series "Big Brother" premiered in the United Kingdom and immediately became a ratings success. Following the success of the first series, it was confirmed that a celebrity edition of the show was in the works. "Celebrity Big Brother" aired in March 2001 as a one-time special on Channel 4 in association with the BBC's "Comic Relief" charity telethon. Due to the tie-in with Comic Relief, the first series was partly broadcast on BBC One in the week leading up to the telethon. It lasted for eight days, and was ultimately won by comedian Jack Dee. With the first series proving to be a success, a second series was later confirmed. "Celebrity Big Brother 2" premiered on 20 November 2002, and concluded when Mark Owen was crowned the winner after 10 days in the house. "Celebrity Big Brother" did not air for the next two years, with Channel 4 choosing to air the spin-off series "" in 2003 and "Big Brother Panto" in 2004. In 2005, the show officially returned with its third series, which launched on 6 January. Lasting for a total of eighteen days, the series was won by Mark "Bez" Berry. The fourth edition of the show premiered on 5 January 2006 and was won by Chantelle Houghton, who ironically enough was the only housemate to not be a celebrity. The fifth series launched on 3 January 2007. This series saw Jade Goody, who had rose to fame after appearing on "Big Brother 3", enter the house as a housemate. The fifth series became the most controversial series to date, when accusations of racism towards housemate Shilpa Shetty arose against Goody and other housemates. Shetty ultimately went on to win the series, while Goody was evicted after spending two weeks in the house. Following the controversy surrounding the fifth series, "Celebrity Big Brother" did not air in 2008. It did, however, return in 2009 and 2010, with the 2010 series being announced as the final one.
The show premiered on January 3, 2010. The show was initially hosted by chef Anne Burrell and chef Beau MacMillan in Season 1. MacMillan was replaced by chef Robert Irvine on Season 2, followed by chef Bobby Flay for Seasons 3–5. On November 20, 2014, a Food Network press release announced that chef Tyler Florence will be paired with chef Burrell to host Season 6, to debut on January 4, 2015. Burrell was the winning instructor in seasons 1, 2, 3, 6, 7 and 8 with Flay winning in Seasons 4–5. Rachael Ray and Burrell hosted the Season 7 special celebrity edition, which premiered September 23, 2015. During the finale of Season 7, a trailer previewing Season 8 was shown and was aired in January 2016 with the return of Tyler Florence.
Michael Edward O'Malley (born October 31, 1966) is an American actor and writer who has appeared in many films and television series. Born in Boston and raised in New Hampshire, O'Malley hosted the early 1990s children's game show "Nickelodeon Guts" before moving to Los Angeles later that decade to star in his own sitcom for NBC called "The Mike O'Malley Show". He is probably best known for his role as Jimmy Hughes on "Yes, Dear", the CBS series which aired from 2000 to 2006. He was nominated for an Emmy Award for his role as Burt Hummel on the Fox series "Glee".
The showrunners for the season were John Altschuler and Dave Krinsky. The wackier stories from recent years began to be phased out. Series creator Mike Judge described the episodes from this season as "small personal stories like we did in the second season."
The series launched on 25 May 2001 on Channel 4. There were a total of four highlight shows airing Monday through Thursday, with Friday being a live eviction episode presented by Davina McCall. Two episodes of the series aired on Friday. During the first episode, viewers were shown the highlights from the previous day and McCall revealed the housemate who had been evicted from the House. Two hours following this, the second episode of the night aired which saw the evicted housemate exit the House and participate in an interview with McCall. One of the highlight episodes per week featured a team of psychologists discussing the events of the previous week from their viewpoint. The series lasted for 64 days, concluding on 27 July 2001. There were a total of 55 episodes this series. This was the first season to feature the spin-off series "Big Brother's Little Brother" (2001–10), presented by Dermot O'Leary; Natalie Casey co-presented the series with O'Leary during the first week. "Big Brother Reveals More" (2001) aired solely during this series, and saw the major plot points of the past week being recapped.
Season II, 2008, expanded to events in London - the UK Masters saw a 128 draw in the main event, the largest backgammon event held in the UK for 30 years; the world's largest event, the Nordic Open joined the WSOB tour for the first time and saw the Championship field increase from 78 to 153 players and finally on the 08 tour, WSOB Cannes, which recorded 155 Championship players, second only to the World Championships. The television series expanded to 15 hours and saw superstar poker and backgammon player Gus Hansen join John Clark in the commentary box. New Yorker Jessie Cantrell hosted with further contributions from experts Sander Lylloff, Falafel Natanzon and Morten Holm.
"Soultaker" was featured in the tenth-season premiere episode of "Mystery Science Theater 3000" ("MST3K"), a comedy television series in which the character Mike Nelson and his two robot friends Crow T. Robot and Tom Servo are forced to watch 'bad films' as part of an ongoing scientific experiment. The episode was broadcast on the Sci-Fi Channel on April 11, 1999. The episode also saw the guest appearances of series creator and original host of "MST3K" Joel Hodgson as Joel Robinson and Frank Conniff as TV's Frank. Jokes comparing Vivian Schilling to Tonya Harding were made. Schilling did not watch the episode but did not like the comparisons with Harding.
1992 saw the weekly airing of his self-titled comedy show "Howie" with multiple guest stars such as Gilbert Gottfried, Little Richard, and Lita Ford as the in-house band guitarist. His character Bobby made a regular appearance on the show. In 1994, Mandel voiced the lead character, Little Howie, of the video game "Tuneland". He starred in the sketch comedy series "Howie Mandel's Sunny Skies" in 1995 on Showtime. Mandel appeared in the 1995 Clint Black country music video "Summer's Comin'". He played the lead role of the professor in the short-lived TV series "The Amazing Live Sea Monkeys", and guest-starred on a 1996 episode of the ABC TV series "" as DC Comics supervillain Mister Mxyzptlk. In 1998, he hosted his own syndicated talk show, "The Howie Mandel Show", which was cancelled after one season. In 1999/2000, Mandel played "Jason" in the film "", was the voice of Jack in the movie The Tangerine Bear in 2000, and in 2002 played the Sand Man in the movie "Hansel and Gretel". In 2006, he appeared as himself as a guest host in a parody of "Deal or No Deal" in the show-within-a-show of the TV series "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip". In 2007, he guest-starred as himself in an episode of NBC's "Medium", making a dream cameo of himself on "Deal or No Deal." In that episode, he booted off the nighttime drama's protagonist for "cheating", since in the show he is a psychic medium and appeared to "know" the contents of the cases. Mandel plays his alter-ego, Phil Skorjanc, in most of his comedy shows and these are a fan favorite. Bobby also made a cameo appearance in a February 2007 episode of "Deal or No Deal". On a special 2-hour Christmas episode, first aired on December 25, 2007, Mandel delivered one line with Bobby's voice, as per request of the contestant.
For the show's first three series, the broadcast of "Still Game" was limited to BBC One Scotland. The show was then moved to BBC Two for the fourth series and shown throughout the UK. On 28 December 2005, the first Christmas special was shown on BBC One, the first national broadcast of the show on the channel. A fifth series of the show started filming in February 2006 and was shown the following June on BBC Two. As of 2006, series three had not been shown nationally, and only five episodes from the first two series were shown on national BBC Two from 17 January to 14 February 2004. The second series was shown nationally from 10 July 2008. This meant it was listed as a new series in TV listings, even though it is not for Scottish viewers.
The American sitcom "How I Met Your Mother" premiered on CBS on September 19, 2005. Created by Craig Thomas and Carter Bays, the show is presented from the perspective of Ted Mosby in 2030 ("Future Ted") as he tells his children how he met the titular mother. The show lasted for nine seasons and 208 episodes; the finale first aired on March 31, 2014.
Keeping Up with the Kardashians (often abbreviated KUWTK) is an American reality television series that airs on the E! cable network. The show focuses on the personal and professional lives of the Kardashian–Jenner blended family. Its premise originated with Ryan Seacrest, who also serves as an executive producer. The series debuted on October 14, 2007 and has subsequently become one of the longest-running reality television series in the country. The fifteenth season premiered on August 5, 2018.
In 1954–55, in addition to his duties with "What's My Line?", Daly also hosted the final year of the NBC Television game show "Who Said That?", in which celebrities tried to determine the speaker of quotations taken from recent news reports.
At first the program was hosted by former vaudeville star, songwriter, and actor George Jessel. For the last episodes, however, the emcee was Arlene Francis, best remembered as a long-time panelist on the CBS Television game show "What's My Line?"
In the network's infancy, GSN regularly showcased vintage Goodson-Todman game and panel shows from the 1950s and 1960s, many of which were either originally broadcast or only preserved in black-and-white – such as "What's My Line?", "I've Got a Secret", "To Tell the Truth", and "Beat the Clock". These classic shows made up much of the channel's lineup at the outset, but have been gradually cut back in prominence since the late 1990s. On October 1, 2006, only "What's My Line?" had a regular spot on the schedule, late Sunday/early Monday at 3:00 a.m. ET, it was followed by a selection from various 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s Goodson-Todman shows, usually another panel game. On December 19, 2006, GSN reinstated the "Black and White Overnight" to seven days a week from 3:00 a.m. to 4:00 a.m. ET, showcasing "What's My Line?" and "I've Got a Secret" in the block, other shows, including "Choose Up Sides", "The Name's the Same", and the Bud Collyer-hosted primetime version of "To Tell the Truth" have been featured, this run ended March 31, 2009. "Black and White Overnight" has returned for two weeks in December since 2009, featuring "What's My Line?" and "I've Got a Secret".
From 1950 to 1966, the game show was broadcast in black-and-white, as was typical of most game shows at the time. But by 1966, all three networks were broadcasting their prime-time schedules entirely in color, including "What's My Line?" After the show ended in 1967, CBS replaced the color videotapes with the kinescope versions instead for syndication. As a result of this change, the 1966–1967 episodes of "What's My Line?" were only shown in black-and-white after the show ended.