Sexual harassment, serial killers & cheaters: The dark side of game shows
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nypost.combefore quitting on Friday amidst controversy over past misogynistic comments and other lawsuits. He remains with TV’s top-rated game show as an executive producer.
Go figure.The “Jeopardy!” kerfuffle is just the latest in a long line of nefarious incidents that have plagued game shows since Dwight Eisenhower was president.
Here are four more.In the 1950s, the infamous “Quiz Show Scandals” rocked the industry and almost destroyed the genre after word broke that producers of the NBC game show “Twenty-One” ensured that Ivy League golden boy Charles Van Doren (who was in on the plan) defeated schleppy, Queens-born trivia wunderkind Herb Stempel, who’d already won nearly $70,000 in prize money and was set to take down fan-favorite Van Doren.The.
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