Steve Harvey muses

Hollywood Reporter has posted a long story on media conglomerate Steve Harvey. The Family Feud host rambles about every topic under the sun. By turns he sounds righteous about religion, caustic about Hollywood, and rather conventional about race (with the usual accusations of racism).

The biggest news for me is tucked into the second-last paragraph. Steve is thinking about leaving Family Feud after a "few more" years, so he can travel more. Really? Feud only gives him his biggest audience. Bigger than the talk show, bigger than the radio show. I'm pretty sure Fremantle will find the bucks to keep Harvey from trips to the Holy Land, at least for the time being.

The story points out that Steve benefits from a demographic fact: African-Americans watch an awful lot of TV. No, I'm not saying this is the only or even a major cause of his success. Don't want Harvey accusing me of racism, after all. But the demos from the Nielsen Company played a part in Cedric Kyles getting the Millionaire gig, as everybody seems to admit, more or less.