Sunday, July 15, 2012

Steve Beverly, referee

On GSN's Internet board, BuzzerBlog's Alex Davis and I got into a dust-up over the network's pickup of Minute To Win It. Which prompted a suggestion...

Other poster: Maybe after this acquisition and whatever money they have left they can FINALLY set up and air a boxing match between Casey Abell and Alex Davis with guest referee Steve Beverly. Steve can also do the play by play announcing.

Alex is about thirty years younger than me, so I don't think it would be much of a match. Anyhoo, whatever happened to Steve Beverly? He mentioned some health problems, then seems to have dropped all his game show sites and newsletters. Hope everything's okay with him.

By an odd coincidence, one of Steve's last posts on his game show site was about Minute To Win It, dated February 11, 2011. The show scored some unexpectedly high 18-49 ratings on NBC, and Steve posted an item about the numbers. His overall attitude toward the show was so-so, neither really enthusiastic nor really negative. Steve also added a picture of Guy Fieri with some nice-looking contestants.

UPDATE: Googled around and the latest Internet post I could find from Steve was this tribute to Andy Griffith on the Union University site, dated July 5. Steve always liked to do these obits. So he's still posting some stuff here and there.

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