NBC has renewed three nonscripted shows but not Minute To Win It. The show is taking a pounding from American Idol, so its future suddenly looks iffy. If the numbers don't perk up, it could be final elimination for the stunt epic. I like the show but it may have run its course after a couple seasons and forty-some episodes. If NBC dumps Fieri and friends, GSN probably won't mind picking up the show.A blast from my distant Cincinnati past: TV pioneer Bill Nimmo has died at age 93. He may be unknown to most folks, but I can remember him from the early, early days of Cincy TV. He left Cincinnati for a while to announce Johnny Carson's Who Do You Trust. He also hosted a short-lived daytime game show on CBS called For Love or Money.
Yeah, I'm tired of Watson, too. But one recent Watson-related story connects nicely to the original I've Got a Secret. In the wake of Watson's overwhelming triumph, computer guru Raymond Kurzweil predicts we're headed for a "singularity." That's when computer intelligence will far surpass mere human intellect. Not to mention that humans will achieve virtual immortality though technology.
Long before Watson, Kurzweil appeared as a 17-year-old on the 2/15/65 episode of I've Got a Secret. He played some music composed by a computer he had designed himself. Henry Morgan used some old-fashioned human smarts to guess this secret, as YouTube records.
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