The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) recently announced that it will replace its longstanding Board of Trustees with a new Board of Directors. The news follows a multi-year restructuring of the Academy’s bylaws and governance to be more representative of the industry communities it serves.
The first class of Board members will initially serve terms of one, two, or three years each. Adam Sharp remains President & CEO, and Terry O’Reilly remains Chair.
The organization that oversees the Daytime Emmy Awards noted that a national membership model organized around peer groups will elect future Directors to full three-year terms.
The initial Board includes (listed alphabetically):
Eva Basler Phillip Bell Bob Boden Jared Bowen David Burt, First Vice Chair Joan Cartan-Hansen André Hepkins Jeremy Hubbard Martha Kattan Ronit Larone Julie Lucas, Secretary Theresa Maher Johnson, Treasurer Michelle McHugh Terry O’Reilly, Chair Amy Schmelzer Adam Sharp, President & CEO...
The first class of Board members will initially serve terms of one, two, or three years each. Adam Sharp remains President & CEO, and Terry O’Reilly remains Chair.
The organization that oversees the Daytime Emmy Awards noted that a national membership model organized around peer groups will elect future Directors to full three-year terms.
The initial Board includes (listed alphabetically):
Eva Basler Phillip Bell Bob Boden Jared Bowen David Burt, First Vice Chair Joan Cartan-Hansen André Hepkins Jeremy Hubbard Martha Kattan Ronit Larone Julie Lucas, Secretary Theresa Maher Johnson, Treasurer Michelle McHugh Terry O’Reilly, Chair Amy Schmelzer Adam Sharp, President & CEO...
- 3/8/2024
- by Errol Lewis
- Soap Opera Network
The unique skill set that allows game show hosts to keep the action flowing as excited contestants vie for prizes is not something everyone has. It’s why certain hosts last for a long time and helm multiple games.
Today, some of that game show community saluted a true master of the art in Bob Barker, who passed away at his home after nearly a half-century of gamesmanship.
Some of the reactions:
Peter Marshall – Hollywood Squares:
“Long before I became an emcee, I admired Bob Barker very much. He was great at what he did, quite wonderful. I can’t claim to have been close to Bob, but when together at events we always talked about our shared love of animals. I hope everyone knows what he did for animal welfare.”
Wink Martindale – Tic Tac Dough:
“In the history of televised game shows, no one is more synonymous with host than Bob Barker.
Today, some of that game show community saluted a true master of the art in Bob Barker, who passed away at his home after nearly a half-century of gamesmanship.
Some of the reactions:
Peter Marshall – Hollywood Squares:
“Long before I became an emcee, I admired Bob Barker very much. He was great at what he did, quite wonderful. I can’t claim to have been close to Bob, but when together at events we always talked about our shared love of animals. I hope everyone knows what he did for animal welfare.”
Wink Martindale – Tic Tac Dough:
“In the history of televised game shows, no one is more synonymous with host than Bob Barker.
- 8/26/2023
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Bob Barker, a television game show icon best known for his decades-long run as the original host of the “The Price Is Right,” has died of natural causes in his Hollywood Hills home, his longtime publicist Roger Neal told TheWrap. Barker was 99 years old.
“It is with profound sadness that we announce that the World’s Greatest Mc who ever lived, Bob Barker has left us,” Neal said in a statement sent to TheWrap. Neal shared the news on behalf of Barker’s longtime companion Nancy Burnet.
“I am so proud of the trailblazing work [Bob] Barker and I did together to expose the cruelty to animals in the entertainment industry, and working to improve the plight of abused and exploited animals in the United States and internationally,” Burnet said in a statement. “We were great friends over these 40 years. He will be missed.”
“We lost a beloved member of the CBS family today,...
“It is with profound sadness that we announce that the World’s Greatest Mc who ever lived, Bob Barker has left us,” Neal said in a statement sent to TheWrap. Neal shared the news on behalf of Barker’s longtime companion Nancy Burnet.
“I am so proud of the trailblazing work [Bob] Barker and I did together to expose the cruelty to animals in the entertainment industry, and working to improve the plight of abused and exploited animals in the United States and internationally,” Burnet said in a statement. “We were great friends over these 40 years. He will be missed.”
“We lost a beloved member of the CBS family today,...
- 8/26/2023
- by Ross A. Lincoln
- The Wrap
This TV genre suffered a scandal in 1950s that nearly wiped it off screens, but endures as one of the most popular programming types today. Now, the history of these shows finally has a physical home of its own.
What is… the game show?!
The first quiz show launched on radio in 1923; now, nearly 100 years later, the National Archives of Game Show History has launched at the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, N.Y. Veteran TV producers Bob Boden (“Funny You Should Ask”) and Howard Blumenthal (“Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?”) have co-founded the archives and will curate the collection.
Boden and Blumenthal are aiming to acquire materials and records from game show professionals, such as producers, performers, directors, designers, writers, executives, and staff members. They’re looking for items like scripts, set designs, props, technical plans, marketing materials, creative plans, production plans, and more. The...
What is… the game show?!
The first quiz show launched on radio in 1923; now, nearly 100 years later, the National Archives of Game Show History has launched at the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, N.Y. Veteran TV producers Bob Boden (“Funny You Should Ask”) and Howard Blumenthal (“Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?”) have co-founded the archives and will curate the collection.
Boden and Blumenthal are aiming to acquire materials and records from game show professionals, such as producers, performers, directors, designers, writers, executives, and staff members. They’re looking for items like scripts, set designs, props, technical plans, marketing materials, creative plans, production plans, and more. The...
- 6/9/2021
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
The Television Academy’s board of governors has voted vice chairman Frank Scherma to become its new chairman and CEO, a post he will take over from the outgoing Hayma Washington. The election was held Thursday night at a board meeting at which the TV Academy’s annual officer elections were also held.
Scherma, the president of RadicalMedia whose producer credits include music documentaries, Errol Morris’ The Fog of War, Broadway’s Shrek the Musical and IFC TV’s Stan Against Evil, was the lone candidate to step forward by the deadline when Washington said in October he would not seek a second term. Washington was the first African-American leader in the organization’s 70-year history.
The incoming chairman will serve a two-year term beginning January 1, 2019. Additional incoming officers elected Thursday include Steve Venezia, Vice Chair; Tim Gibbons, Second Vice Chair; Sharon Lieblein, Secretary; Allison Binder, Treasurer; and Mitch Waldow,...
Scherma, the president of RadicalMedia whose producer credits include music documentaries, Errol Morris’ The Fog of War, Broadway’s Shrek the Musical and IFC TV’s Stan Against Evil, was the lone candidate to step forward by the deadline when Washington said in October he would not seek a second term. Washington was the first African-American leader in the organization’s 70-year history.
The incoming chairman will serve a two-year term beginning January 1, 2019. Additional incoming officers elected Thursday include Steve Venezia, Vice Chair; Tim Gibbons, Second Vice Chair; Sharon Lieblein, Secretary; Allison Binder, Treasurer; and Mitch Waldow,...
- 11/16/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Remember when big-name stars didn’t want to do TV? Now they’re even clamoring for jobs as game show hosts.
Alec Baldwin (ABC’s “Match Game”), Taye Diggs (Fox’s “Hypnotize Me”), Jane Lynch (NBC’s “Celebrity Game Night”) and Anthony Anderson (ABC’s “To Tell the Truth”) are just some of the actors who now front major primetime game shows, in addition to their regular scripted work.
“You look at game shows from the 1970s and 1980s, they were somewhat cheesy,” Anderson said. “It’s different now. It’s a lot classier. It’s cool.”
Wayne Brady, who has hosted a “Let’s Make a Deal” revival for CBS since 2009, joked that “being a game show host was very much akin to being a local affiliate weatherman – and no offense to local affiliate weathermen, but there’s a stereotype.”
Read More: Common Joins the Game Show Circus
Indeed,...
Alec Baldwin (ABC’s “Match Game”), Taye Diggs (Fox’s “Hypnotize Me”), Jane Lynch (NBC’s “Celebrity Game Night”) and Anthony Anderson (ABC’s “To Tell the Truth”) are just some of the actors who now front major primetime game shows, in addition to their regular scripted work.
“You look at game shows from the 1970s and 1980s, they were somewhat cheesy,” Anderson said. “It’s different now. It’s a lot classier. It’s cool.”
Wayne Brady, who has hosted a “Let’s Make a Deal” revival for CBS since 2009, joked that “being a game show host was very much akin to being a local affiliate weatherman – and no offense to local affiliate weathermen, but there’s a stereotype.”
Read More: Common Joins the Game Show Circus
Indeed,...
- 7/2/2016
- by Michael Schneider
- Indiewire
Based on the UK show, The Chase is not set to premiere until August 6, but today Gsn said it has ordered another eight episodes for Season 2 to air later this year. Production begins next month. The network announced an eight-episode first-season order for the quiz competition in May during the upfronts. The one-hour show, in which three contestants battle against an all-knowing opponent named The Beast, is produced by ITV Studios America. Brooke Burns is host. “The high stakes of this ‘all or nothing,’ ‘David vs. Goliath’ battle of the brains result in riveting television,” said Amy Introcaso-Davis, Evp Programming and Development at Gsn. “While there is great gameplay in The Chase, it is also wildly entertaining to watch the always engaging Brooke Burns spar with trivia savant Mark Labbett aka The Beast”. Bob Boden, Martin Scott and Michael Kelpie are executive producers.
- 7/1/2013
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
The Gsn original series The Chase is a one-hour quiz show show adapted from the British original that pits a team of four contestants against a resident genius — in this case Mark Labbett, one of the original “Chasers” in the UK version. The network has set the premiere date for August 6 at 9 Pm. Brooke Burns will host the series, from ITV Studios America and executive producer Bob Boden. Its lead-in will be the Apolo Anton Ohno-hosted Minute To Win It.
- 6/18/2013
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
Dennis Nishi
After spending 51 years as a highly successful board game, Hasbro and the Hub television network, formerly known as “Discovery Kids,” have finally figured out how to turn “The Game of Life” into a game show. The family-oriented program will be hosted by comedian Frank Nicotero (Street Smarts, The Sharon Osbourne Show) and it will air alongside another Hasbro property: “Scramble Showdown.”
Many of the key features from the board game have been worked into the show including the car,...
After spending 51 years as a highly successful board game, Hasbro and the Hub television network, formerly known as “Discovery Kids,” have finally figured out how to turn “The Game of Life” into a game show. The family-oriented program will be hosted by comedian Frank Nicotero (Street Smarts, The Sharon Osbourne Show) and it will air alongside another Hasbro property: “Scramble Showdown.”
Many of the key features from the board game have been worked into the show including the car,...
- 4/12/2011
- by Dennis Nishi
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Fox Reality Channel executive Bob Boden is leaving the network to become develop reality and game shows for the new Hasbro Studios, which itself is developing content for a kids' channel that will replace Discovery Kids next fall. Boden is the vice president of programming for the network, and has been with it since before its launch in 2005. Variety reports that "[a] spokesman for Fox Reality Channel said no decision has been made on... keep reading » » read the full story and comment, or find the latest news about industry news
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- 9/22/2009
- by Andy Dehnart
- Reality Blurred
Fox Reality Channel has ordered a new series that puts an attention-getting gender twist on the trophy-spouse reality genre.
The network has ordered nine hours of "Househusbands of Hollywood," which follows a collection of stay-at-home spouses of successful L.A. women.
The cast includes Tempestt Bledsoe ("The Cosby Show") and husband Darryl M. Bell ("A Different World"), Jillian Reynolds (formerly Barberie, from "Good Day La") and her husband Grant and former Los Angeles Dodger Billy Ashley, among others.
The project produced by Marilyn Wilson Prods. represents a different kind of reality show for the cable channel, which is dominated by off-network acquisitions, original competition series and the occasional docudrama.
"Househusbands," set to bow in August, falls into an ensemble soap category that's provided ample fruit for such high-profile cable players as Bravo, VH1 and E!
"We believe 'Househusbands' could be a breakthrough for us," said Bob Boden, Fox Reality senior vp programming.
The network has ordered nine hours of "Househusbands of Hollywood," which follows a collection of stay-at-home spouses of successful L.A. women.
The cast includes Tempestt Bledsoe ("The Cosby Show") and husband Darryl M. Bell ("A Different World"), Jillian Reynolds (formerly Barberie, from "Good Day La") and her husband Grant and former Los Angeles Dodger Billy Ashley, among others.
The project produced by Marilyn Wilson Prods. represents a different kind of reality show for the cable channel, which is dominated by off-network acquisitions, original competition series and the occasional docudrama.
"Househusbands," set to bow in August, falls into an ensemble soap category that's provided ample fruit for such high-profile cable players as Bravo, VH1 and E!
"We believe 'Househusbands' could be a breakthrough for us," said Bob Boden, Fox Reality senior vp programming.
- 12/16/2008
- by By James Hibberd
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Cable network Fox Reality is in final negotiations to give a 10-episode order to an unscripted show from Scott Sternberg Prods. offering an unprecedented inside look at sheriff's department cadets in training. The hourlong series, tentatively titled The Academy, follows a class of 115 Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department recruits through their 18-week academy program. It is set to begin shooting this year for a 2007 premiere. Sternberg will executive produce with Scott Weinberger; Jerry Beck, who originally approached Sternberg with the idea, also will be involved in a producing capacity. Weinberger and Beck are former law enforcement officers who have gone through sheriff's department training (Beck in Los Angeles County and Weinberger in Florida). The executive in charge for Fox Reality is Bob Boden.
- 8/23/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
GSN, the network formerly known as Game Show Network, has hired former Sci Fi Channel executive Ian Valentine as its head of programming. Valentine will oversee all program development, acquisitions and production at the network, which earlier this year changed its name and broadened its focus beyond traditional game shows to encompass all things gaming, from card games to horse racing as well as interactive and video game-related programs. As senior vp programming, Valentine replaces Bob Boden, who left GSN last year. He reports to GSN president Rich Cronin.
- 5/25/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Game Show Network is betting that fans of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire have long forgotten whether those nail-biting "final answers" were right or wrong. The cable network has picked up the original Regis Philbin-hosted hit game show for a repeat run. GSN has acquired 150 of the 350 original episodes of the ABC show from Buena Vista Television and has the option of ordering more in the future, GSN senior vp programming Bob Boden said on Monday. Boden described the deal as one of the most significant to date for GSN. "This is the most successful show that we have ever acquired," he said. The deal includes rights to several celebrity and professional athlete episodes as well as several shows featuring $1 million winners.
- 9/23/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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