No more love

Not much to write about today, so I'll revisit a now old story. Fox has cancelled its Love Connection reboot after two low-rated seasons.

Really, it was something of a surprise that the show survived to the second season. The numbers were never all that good. I didn't think the reboot was terrible, just a little bland. On the game show board at Sitcoms Online, a few posters chew over the show's fate. One commenter points out a key issue: The show needs a better host.

Andy Cohen wasn't terrible, but he wasn't all that great, either. Just sorta middling. In a faux tweet I suggested that Fox might have brought back Chuck Woolery for nostalgia appeal. But I can understand why Fox decided against him.

Chuck was 76 when the reboot premiered, and he's also accumulated political baggage that could have put off some viewers. For instance, a couple miscreants at Game Show Forum pictorially compared Woolery to Adolf Hitler. Sure, that's the kind of nonsense you expect from GSF. (To the board's credit, the mods eventually took down the Hitler pictures.) But broadcast network execs are always scared of political reactions to entertainment personalities.

Still, even at age 76 Chuck might have brought a little more oomph to Love Connection than the humdrum Andy. We'll never know.

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