![]() ![]() Later, people come up and say “I was a contestant with you,” and It went across on CBC as a network show here. Syndicated on all the Fox owned-and-operated stations in the US, and Vancouver area, and it was shot here in Vancouver at the CBC studios. ![]() Up to me and tell me they were on the show. Is that the show you’re most remembered for? I know that he had a hand in the Supermarket Sweep of the 90s, and he did a lot of writing for a show called The Cross-Wits …I was pleasantly surprised to learn that he was the mind behind Talk About. Mark Maxwell-Smith is a massively creative guy. Mark Maxwell-Smith, the creator, was there, and he liked what he saw, and just like that, we were in production. I was given this sort of script for it, went in, and ran through it a couple of times. This game show just happened to come up, and I went into the audition not even really knowing how to play the game. I was always being sent out on auditions from my agent, for commercials or whatever happened to come up. I had been doing television before-a talk show and things like that. Proliferation of podcasts and things like that. There’s probably stillĪn audience for that type of programming today, with the To it or any political slant or anything.įormat in the late 80s you had guys like Tom Snyder and Larry Kingĭoing their radio shows live coast-to-coast. Every day was different, but there was no real focus Have guests call in and comment on things. Shows where you have guests, or you have guests on the phone, or you Government officials, or was it celebrities? It a public service type of thing where you were talking to They went from talk radio to classic rock, so that kind of left a bunch of us out. Oh, yeah, that’s right, a radio talk show, yeah. Now, you were hosting a talk show around 1988 on CJOR, around the time you got the job on Talk About. If the name comes up and the person has passed away, it sort of behooves the host to mention that the person has passed away and not let that moment slip by. Some of the topics on Talk About were people, and now that it’s going to re-run in Canada, I guess we’ll see how many of the people who were involved in the puzzles are still with us. Did that ever actually happen onĭid it ever happen? I don’t think so. Happens to give away a trip to that city, and there’s this big Today-when there’s a hurricane or violence in a particular city, Running, you know…I think some people were very leery about that. Of whether the person is, you know, dead. Was a person, and the person had passed away, and there’s no mention Other than the fashion, of course, which you can always Thing we were really concerned about-on Talk About, anyway-was Isn’t a spot for it on any of our networks. Sure if the producers aren’t pushing it as much, or if there just ![]() Is footage of Canadian game shows hard to find? There doesn’t seem to be a long-standing or particularly rich history of rerunning game shows, especially the older stuff from the 70s and 80s. There seemed to have been a big push for people to donate footage they may have for use in the documentary. I’ve seen the first two episodes already, and I think everyone did a phenomenal job, including you. Here are some excerpts from my interview with Wayne. In celebration of the documentary’s premiere this Thursday evening, January 16, at 7pm on Game TV, Wayne Cox graciously spoke with me about his experiences in the world of game shows, his thoughts on the genre today, and the impact game shows have had on Canada as a whole, among many other topics. Cox, who still occasionally works as a voice-over artist, has lent his narrative talents to The Search For Canada’s Game Shows, a new and ambitious documentary series which chronicles the history of the game show genre in Canada, and discusses programs such as The Mad Dash, Pitfall, Definition, and Front Page Challenge. Two years later, Wayne assumed hosting duties of the charades game Acting Crazy before finding new career success as a weatherman on Global B.C., a job he would hold until his retirement from broadcasting in 2012. Cox is most fondly remembered, premiered the following year and was broadcast across Canada, as well as in the US in syndication. Talk About, a word association game for which Mr. After a 20-year career as a disc jockey and freelance emcee which began in the late 60s and extended well into the 80s, Wayne hosted his first game show, Second Honeymoon, for CTV in 1987. Wayne Cox should be a familiar name to the many fans who enjoy the game shows of Canada. In anticipation of the premiere of The Search for Canada’s Game Shows, Christian Carrion talks with an iconic Canadian game show host and television personality. ![]()
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