BearManor Media News — game show

Q&A with the authors of Celebrities on TV Game Shows 1950-1999 Volume 1 How did this book come about? It started with a phone call about a single game show question. That call turned into a half-hour discussion about the genre, which then led to back-and-forth e-mails about different stars appearing on game shows over the years. After a while, it occurred to us that there might be a book to be written about this. Why did you want to write a book on this particular subject? Since the rise of the Internet, a lot of information has become available...

Q&A with Wesley Hyatt, author of I’d Like to Buy a Vowel - Spinning 50 Years of Wheel of FortuneWhy do a book about Wheel of Fortune? There’s never been a serious history of the series in print until now. It’s celebrating fifty years on the air come January 1975, an achievement few series ever achieve. And it’s a show with broad recognition, so it should attract the interest of many readers. How did you research the series? I did a combination of things. Obviously, I watched as many shows as possible, although the sheer number of episodes (over 12,000)...

10 Q & As Concerning “Does The Crew Sleep On Board?”     What made you think you could actually write a book? Since the advent of Facebook, I would occasionally submit stories and recount adventures and experiences I thought were interesting.   One day a published friend of mine with whom I worked as a staff writer for a fledgling network, read one of my stories I had posted on Facebook and asked if I had ever published anything.  The answer was no. He claimed my stories were very funny and entertaining, and if I was willing, he would help...