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Wheel of Fortune will premiere a new season soon and Vanna White will work alongside the new host, Ryan Seacrest. Well, it hasn’t even started yet and this weekend, she had to rescue him from a tight spot at the Santa Monica Pier event.

Wheel of Fortune Fans Sorry To See Pat Sajak Go

When fans learned that Pat Sajak was retiring from the game show, they suspected that the older man had been bullied out of his show. Well, that made fans less than willing to give Ryan Seacrest a free ride when they heard that he would take over alongside Vanna White.

Some Wheel of Fortune fans thought that it was a slap in the face for Vanna White to bring in a new host. After all, she would probably be quite capable of doing the job herself. Well, for the time being, she is staying on and teaching him the ropes.

2023 has been, several weeks in, very encouraging as far as the overall picture at the box office is concerned. We've had hit horror films "M3GAN" and "Skinamarink" in the mix, while "Avatar: The Way of Water" and "Puss in Boots: The Last Wish" have done gangbusters business as holdovers from late 2022. Unfortunately, though, it does seem like adult-skewing, original dramas are still a tough nut to crack. Case in point, Hugh Jackman's latest effort, "The Son," debuted this past weekend and landed with a barely audible whimper. Though, if recent history is any indication, it may not be dead in the water just yet.

Debuting in 554 theaters from Sony Pictures Classics, "The Son" earned a mere 239,855. Director Florian Zeller's follow-up to "The Father," which landed Anthony Hopkins a Best Actor Oscar, netted just 432 per screen in the U.S, an absolutely abysmal start. There's simply no way to...

Some go-to advice for scriptwriting is to pitch your work as "x meets y"; two things with proven success mashed together. Vince Gilligan, the creator of "Breaking Bad," famously pitched the series as "Mr. Chips becomes Scarface." The boldness of that pitch won over then Sony Pictures Television executives Zack Van Amburg and Jamie Erlicht. Once Gilligan had them on his side to produce the series, he needed to find a network that would air it. This proved a challenge, with most of the prestige networks saying no before AMC finally said yes.

The struggle to find a home for "Breaking Bad" is shocking considering how successful the show became. However, Gilligan's recounting of his efforts is a pretty great story itself. Here's every network he pitched "Breaking Bad" to, and why they all said no.

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In an interview with the Television Academy Foundation, Gilligan recalled that during...