Saturday, June 15, 2019

Elizabeth Banks' Press Your Luck and Joel McHale's Card Sharks launched earlier this month

Let me tell you about the new ABC versions of Press Your Luck (starring Elizabeth Banks) and Card Sharks (starring Joel McHale). The new Press Your Luck could be, like the original CBS daytime series, recorded at CBS Television City in Hollywood (or not). This new version of Press Your Luck features Neil Ross (the announcer of Game Show Network's first promos for reruns of Peter Tomarken's CBS daytime series in the early 2000s) serving as Banks' announcer. I don't know who the voice of the "new" Whammies is, but on Tomarken's CBS daytime series, the Whammy was voiced by Bill Carruthers, the creator, executive producer, and regular director of that version.

McHale's Card Sharks features Donna Jay Fulks (also the current narrator of Olive Garden commercials) as announcer. McHale's Card Sharks also features the same theme from Alex Trebek's Double Dare and later Jim Perry's Card Sharks.

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