What is the “Mike Richards Redemption Tour”?
In case you missed it, Richards is the Danger! executive producer who helped oversee his own appointment as Alex Trebek’s successor—only to go out last week after a very problematic past rhetoric and behavior (including two discrimination lawsuits) resurfaced. Now, as reported agreed to do a sensitivity workout, according to various sourcess.
What sense does it make, you ask? Because, of course, despite his embarrassing (and discriminatory) behavior, Richards continues to be executive producer of Danger! –and of Wheel of fortune, for this reason. The show is not called Responsibility, silly.
Well, that is, unless you think of Richards, who unquestionably hurt the Danger! brand: keep collecting one a lot a healthy salary while rehabilitating your own image with basic training on how to be a decent human being is accountability. We just say it fails.
From the New York Times (our italics):
Last week, Mike Richards he lost his concert as the new host of “Danger!“Cara a reprimand of the Anti-Defamation League, heard a rant of demoralized program staff and was forced to apologize after it was revealed that he did sexist and crude jokes on a podcast some years ago [specifically, between 2013 and 2014] in which he mocked the appearances of women, unemployed workers, and the size of Jewish noses.
This week, Mr. Richards is directing the show again. And its Sony bosses seem intent on continuing like this.
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In fact, according to several anonymous sources, the president of Sony of Global Television Studios, Ravi Ahuja, organized a call with Danger! on Monday, in which he expressed his support for Richards and “noted that he expected the crew to move forward from last week’s uproar with Richards at the helm” and instructed them not to speak to the media.
“Mr. Ahuja praised Mr Richards for his willingness to leave the accommodation, “the Times reports, adding later that Ajuha” also invoked his own education as an American who grew up in the 1970s in Mississippi, where, he said, he faced racially offensive comments, to emphasize that he was sensitive to concerns about Mr. Richards’ cruel comments.”
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Richards was also reportedly on the call, where he acknowledged he was in sensitivity training and apologized because he “asked for a chance to prove ‘who he really is,'” his spokesman, Ed, told the Times. Iron cutters.
But … but not yet? Turned onair? Repeatedly?
“The way the show’s producers handled the transition from the Golden Age of Trebek is as insensitive and out of touch as Richards’ furious comments, ”wrote the NBA celebrity and twice-famous Danger! competitor Kareem Abdul-Jabbar a on a Wednesday published by The Hollywood Reporter, adding: “his false deaf passage suggests that the problem may not be just a bad branch, but a rotten root.”
“Admirably, the producers had switched from guest hosts representing a cross section of America,” Abdul-Jabbar continued. “But when it came to choosing the permanent host … Mike Richards’ choice was as usual.”
It looks like it will continue to be so, as “Mike is committed to continuing as executive producer of Danger! i Wheel of fortune“According to Tagliaferri. According to reports, he was back in charge this week, while the provisional host of the week Mayim Bialik recorded episodes. While neither Ajuha nor Richards has granted interviews, in a statement issued last week to the Times, “Sony expressed its” hope “that Mr Richards would carry out his production duties” with professionalism and respect “.