{"id":16616,"date":"2012-09-06T15:16:10","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T19:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=16616"},"modified":"2012-09-06T14:33:23","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T18:33:23","slug":"steve-harvey-enters-the-talk-show-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=16616","title":{"rendered":"Steve Harvey Enters The  Talk-Show World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 <strong>Steve Harvey<\/strong> played hard-to-get before deciding to become a daytime television talk-show host.<\/p>\n<p>The veteran comic, whose new show gets a jump on the fall season, was first approached about a show three years ago when his first book, <em>\u201cAct Like a Lady, Think Like a Man,\u201d<\/em> was on the best-seller lists.<\/p>\n<p>The television production company Endemol thought the idea of <strong>Harvey<\/strong> giving women advice from a man\u2019s point of view made a perfect theme.<strong> Harvey<\/strong> said no, thanks.<\/p>\n<p>One of the original \u201cKings of Comedy\u201d thought late-night was a better place for him on TV. Daytime is more sedate. He had a thriving stand-up career he wasn\u2019t ready to give up and a popular morning radio show broadcast across the country. <strong>Harve<\/strong>y also thought his suitors were trying to limit him.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Harvey<\/strong> instead signed on as host of the game show<em> \u201cFamily Feud.\u201d<\/em> His success there made producers want him more, said <strong>David Goldberg<\/strong>, chairman and CEO of Endemol North America.<br \/>\n<strong>Goldberg<\/strong> tried again, and this time sealed the deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 Steve Harvey played hard-to-get before deciding to become a daytime television talk-show host. The veteran comic, whose new show gets a jump on the fall season, was first approached about a show three years ago when his first book, \u201cAct Like a Lady, Think Like a Man,\u201d was on the best-seller lists. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}