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This. 100x this. It's like he has to make a little comment on every wrong answer, or provide more context for the right answer when I would prefer we just move on to the next clue. What I'm finding as I watch Ken is that I thought my love of trivia had nothing to do with Alex Trebek and I would happily continue watching with any host. I totally forgot to watch one day this week and on another day, I decided to continue watching the movie I was watching rather than pause the movie and go to Jeopardy.

Agreed. Whenever anyone comments on how they remember someone from this show or that show, I have usually never even heard of the show, never mind watching it. I did try to hunt some of them down, specifically Bitten, as someone wondered if Paul Green used a body double because he looked really hot, but it's not free and honestly, I know it's a show I wouldn't watch anyway. I have started to watch When Calls The Heart, something I would not have even considered a year ago but it's covid and I'm newly retired and I am not apologizing for wasting my time watching handsome men act in stupid shows.

Not to mention, do they flush when out in public, or do they take the manager with them to do it for them?

That is the maid's job probably.

No kidding. I also hate the one where Mama and Papa bear are watching tv, then they look at each other, and Mama shouts up the stairs, 'you're not using too much, are you?' to their poor son on the toilet who is, in fairness to the Mom, using too much. As a parent I don't recall ever having a secret look with my husband that meant our kid was wasting toilet paper, or for that matter, keeping track of who was in the bathroom at any given time.

Agreed on Webster/Kolaha, never heard of Dangerfield/Faglia (IMDB does not pull up any Faglia) but I don't see Walker/Turner. I used to confuse Andrew Walker with Luke Macfarlane and one other guy whose name I don't know, but Andrew Walker has serious chemistry with most of his costars which I cannot say about Macfarlane (not to mention Walker's characters seem to have some personality.) Having said that, I find that a couple of guys stand out and the rest might as well be the same person. Same as the women, I guess, though I find the unmemorable guys more innocuous than annoying and while I'm not particularly attracted to some of the guys, that won't make me turn the channel like a shrewy hag of an actress will.

No kidding. I watched The Last Bridesmaid last weekend and when she's dressed for the wedding in her hideous yellow bridesmaid dress, and she says to her videographer love interest Paul Campbell (the only reason to ever watch this terrible movie) 'keep your eyes on the bride' and he says, 'I can't,' I practically laughed out loud. Never mind that they left as the show was starting and despite driving forever and having a long conversation with the other occupant, once the decision is made to turn around, they're still in the tiny town. I can't find Two For The Win so I guess it's not scheduled yet for Canada, but I found on IMDB that the female star is from Collingwood, Ont., which is what passes for a ski hill in Southern Ontario (no laughing) so chances are good that she did some of her own skiing as well. Having said that, I am up for a new Trevor Donovan movie.

If someone could 'fetch' her and get her out of 50% of all movies, I'd be ok with that.

My guess is that the plan all along was to give the role to Ken, hence the 6 weeks of taping. Then the Twitter sewer got started and they hesitated. Clearly I have no inside knowledge, but I think since Twitter has moved on and Ken doesn't appear to be tanking (in my opinion, and I strongly dislike everything about him, he is doing 'fine',) the other guest hosts are a distraction and it will be Ken's job.

I feel much the same way about the Noom ads. I don't really like most of the people in the commercials, but I know how hard it is to lose weight and how amazing it makes you feel when you are able to do so, so I can't help but smile at the woman who finds shopping for clothes a much different experience now.

Agreed, StrictTime, I thought the same thing. She looks way older than him. No way did he pine for her. And Joe Theismann was hilarious, though I have trouble watching him without thinking about that broken leg. Given the movies are so ridiculous anyway, it seems crazy to me to watch a ridiculous movie with unlikeable actors. Since they are always told from the woman's side and she is in pretty much 100% of the scenes, I have to draw the line. Once she is a bitch-on-wheels for no reason at all, or determined to do things her way even though she's been gone for years and the locals all know what they're doing, or stuck in the 'this is how my mother did Christmas before she died when I was 5' rut, then the actress had better be appealing enough to make me stay to see how she evolves. Another weird thing is that the actresses all appear to have doppelgangers. YMMV, but as mentioned earlier, I cannot tell the difference between Jill Wagner and Tricia Helfer, Rachel Boston and Erin Cahill, or Nikki DeLoach and Autumn Reeser. There are two others I can think of but have no idea of their name or any movies they were in (maybe the one where she comes back to town and helps in the bookstore and there is a sexy scene with the blacksmith?) And for the second time this week: if you have moved away to the city and haven't even come home to visit for years, you DO NOT get to berate your parents because they are getting too old to work the family farm/inn and are thinking of selling to the handsome local who works for them.

That's the thing about these movies. All of the guys are handsome, some more appealing than others (Ryan is one of my favourites) but I find it's the woman who determines whether or not I can watch a movie. Most are not particularly good actresses, but some are so flat, or so shrill or so 'bright' that I can't watch. Case in point - I love, love Paul Campbell and have watched Christmas at Starlight a few times this season because I also like Kimberly Sustad but I can't watch Holiday Hearts and can barely tolerate The Last Bridesmaid because of the lead actresses. I am currently watching Appetite for Love which stars Andrew Walker and Taylor Cole, both of whom are very appealing.

Yes, and I also thought a few times, 'run a comb through that mess.' I agree that it was a pretty good movie, as these things go. I liked the natural progression of their relationship as well.

Interesting. Though not necessarily good news for me, as a non-fan of Lacey Chabert. It looks like, based on these numbers and the lack of comments on this site, I might be the only person who watched or liked Project Christmas Wish. Whether it's because Travis Van Winkle is smoking hot or because there is no great misunderstanding drama, I found it very watchable. I thought the dancing at the mixer was very romantic and yes, I did rewind and rewatch that scene several times. In fact, I think I will watch the movie again today because it looks like all today's movies are of the pumpkin pie/harvest variety. I will be so glad when I can finally pull myself out of the rabbit hole of Hallmark movies that I seem to have fallen into.

That was a great interview, j5cochran. Thanks for sharing. It's nice to hear from someone who had the opportunity to meet him, that he is (was) as nice as he seems. I agree that coming up with 5 anecdotes that complete strangers will find interesting sounds very daunting, perhaps scarier than playing the actual game (given that anyone who makes the show can clearly answer most of the questions.) I think most games are probably decided by who manages to have the right buzzer rhythm, would you agree?

I have also lived north (though actually the southern area of Canada) all my life and I have never seen: snowman contests, gingerbread house contests, wreath-making booths, booths that offer eggnog (honestly I don't know anyone who actually even likes eggnog, with the odd exception and that always involves rum), towns where every store on main street vomits Christmas, Christmas cookie bake sale fundraisers, Santa's sleigh driving down main street outside of the Christmas parade, or downtown corner lots that sell Christmas trees that people carry home. Nor do I know anyone who can name 5 different kinds of Christmas trees. I am willing to admit that this might be because I live in a city and not a small town named Christmas Hollow or Starbright or Charmingtown.

I recall reading in a few places that Greene has a 'mantra' that consists of 4 words, the only 2 of which I can remember are 'faith and fitness' so I'm going to go out on a limb and say it's probably his own body. Now, excuse me while I go find out what Bitten is... Bridal Wave is on here tomorrow at 6am so the PVR is already programmed. I love the movie but not getting up that early to watch it!

OK, I don't think I've ever seen the fencing one, though I think I can figure out how it goes. I can't stand the Poise commercial where Candace has 'Poise in her pants.' Every time it comes on I think they are going to say, 'poop in her pants.'

I love this commercial! Along with a Ratt problem. The aunt problem is not quite as funny, but they are clever.

OK, the Forum thread is called, 'Holiday Movies' so I'm posting this here. W Network has moved on from Christmas movies and is now playing Easter Under Wraps. I know covid has made days run into one another but did we skip right over Winterfest and Valentines Day? Anyway, the owner's daughter is undercover at the factory and of course has had a run-in with the eventual love interest. In what world does this brand new employee go to HR and ask them to move the existing employee (who everyone loves, by the way) to another department because she doesn't think they work well together? Top it off with her phone ringing constantly, and her actually taking a call while sitting in the HR office complaining about the other employee!

Read some of his tweets. Perhaps 'garbage human' is strong, but he is smug, condescending and insulting for no apparent reason other than he can be. He is mean-spirited just for the sake of it. I understand YMMV and I believe he should be allowed to say whatever he wants to say on his own Twitter account, but the price of that is some people will choose to disengage from someone whose true nature they find so offensive. To me, that will mean Art Fleming and Alex Trebek are the only Jeopardy hosts because the show's run for me ends with a Ken Jennings hosting job.

I am not villainizing Jennings because a journalist called him a star. I am doing it because he is a garbage human being who has hundreds of tweets that show his rude smugness and outright cruelty to people he thinks he's better than, because he won a bunch of Jeopardy games. As one person I read said about him, 'there's knowledge and there's intelligence. He has a lot of the former and shows little of the latter.'

Wow, that sounds really exciting, j5cochran. I'm sure I would be crying for sure. Alex was a comfortable presence every day. He was warm and welcoming to everyone, and always seemed interested in the anecdotes, even though some of them were pretty lame (this is the main reason why I would never go on Jeopardy; I have no interesting anecdotes.) I have no advice for you. Enjoy, I'm sure anything you say will be glowing about Alex. If you could slip in that you don't want Ken Jennings as the next host, that would be good.

WinnieWinkle, I guess that's right up there with planning a Christmas party/fundraiser/festival in about 4 days, with the big reveal always being Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. Seems to me anybody who cares to attend this sort of thing is the type who probably has plans for those days. If all you can talk about for months at a time is Christmas, are you really free on Christmas Day? Shouldn't you be home surrounded by all of your family, eating gingerbread cookies, singing carols and drinking hot cocoa? Totally unrelated, in one of the movies I saw in the last couple days, people are making Christmas wishes and the heroine's mother has invited a woman to have Christmas Eve dinner with them. When they decide to go for eggnog, one woman says, 'is there rum in it?' and the mother says, 'there better be.' Apropos of nothing, but I thought it was funny that someone finally acknowledged that some people think that a drink is exactly what you need in these circumstances.

I agree that Love on Ice and Love on Iceland are totally different. One has beautiful Icelandic scenery, and the other has Andrew Walker. Both a pleasure to look at. I also really liked USS Christmas. I have since watched a few movies with the same leading actor and he's pretty good.