Double Dare -Svärd Marc Summers says Reboot made “Major Mistake”

Marc Summers has some notes on 2018 -The revival of Double dare.

Summers, 73, was the original values ​​for Nickelodeon Game Show Double dareA Rolicking -TV series that saw children competing in very messy challenges. In the section 25 May of Nostalgia tonight with Joe SibiliaThe summers said he was cast on the series because he seemed like an “older brother” for the children and talked to them as if they were adults.

“It just worked,” he said. “It was so fun.” The original series went from 1986 to 1994 and the summers filmed six episodes a day.

Summers explained that “for several years” he tried to bring Double dare Back, to believe that the iconic show could still reason; The show also had a brief, summaryless resuscitation in 2000. Eventually his “endurance” and Nickelodeon decided to bring it back, but they told him he would not be worth. They said to him: “We hired an influencer”, and the summers did not know what it meant.

Although the summers do not name her during the podcast, the new values ​​were Lize KoshyWho first found success on Youtube and branched out for more TV work. Summers appeared as the show’s announcer instead and was an executive producer.

“My feeling was that I get it, they probably think I look like a grandfather and didn’t realize that I still have energy and could do everything they wanted me to do and more,” he said. He also thought he would appeal to the parents of children on which the network hoped.

One day during the filming, Koshy, 29, became ill and they asked summers to fill in. He did so with “zero repetition” and “no cue cards.” Summers claimed that it was the highest ranked section of the restart.

When it comes to the choice of host, he said, “they made a big mistake, in my appreciation, to put on someone who had never hosted a show, and with all respect, quite a lot to practice.” He said that during the breaks he would train koshy on how to keep track of which team won, the point in total and how the challenges affected the game.

People were enough for Koshy representatives for comments.

“Today they just put on people who have no idea how to do these things,” Summers said about host. “And some of them are okay, and some of them are not. And if you really don’t have the passion for it, it generally doesn’t work.” Resuscitation was broadcast for two seasons, which ended in December 2019. 2020 was nominated the show for the day Emmy Award for Outstanding Game Show host.

2024, Summers performed an Off-Broadway show about his life with the title Life and mucus from Marc summers, as used Double dare to tell their life story.

“To do Double dare apparently changed my life. But I’ve had a strange career, ” He told people then. “You couldn’t have planned it in any way I did it. I just kept falling into things, which led to what I do now.” After Double dareHe continued to be generally shown on television, best known as host for Food Network’s Unopened.

“I just love to do the show,” he said about his stage performance. “It takes a hell of me. It’s exhausting and emotionally every night, but I just love the experience.”