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Re: Musings From A New Member

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ejumeanJan 19, 2013
 

 
I'm always excited when I read about new players taking the plunge and appearing on Just A Minute. Obviously not all of the newbies are great -- some, I had high hopes for being great, but fell horribly flat. But on the flipside, some did a lot better than I had expected.

With regards to the structuring of the teams, I lean more towards a "gang of 2" approach rather than a full team of regulars that was done to death in the earlier years of Kenneth, Clement, Peter and Derek. I think on the whole I would prefer a small stable of the stronger regulars acting as anchors for each "team" (Paul, Tony, Sue, Graham, Julian, Gyles, etc). Then, one could combine that with two of the less-regular but still strong or improving players (ie. Ross, Liza, Sheila, Josie, etc), or bringing in a new player or much-less-used guest to fill out one of these other two seats.

They definitely need to rely more on the veterans and less on the newbies, as many of the episodes in the last few years where more than one "JAM virgin" on the panel just didn't seem to always work, at least in my opinion.

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> This I agree with, but everyone has to start somewhere and I see it as a healthy sign that the producers still adds new names to the list, cause that must mean they have long term intentions for the show, doesn't it? Cause if they only intended to keep going until Nic is done as a chairman then they could just as well just used the established players and go off with a bang?
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> So each time I see a new name on the lineup a sigh of relief is released inside of me!
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> Here we differ a bit :) as I mentioned, I'm not opposed to one new player with three great veterans because three can still carry the show with a degree of ease; when there are two new or relatively new names I cringe, because in many instances those two might be Paul and someone I don't care for or Paul may not even be on the show, and it's left to someone such as Tony to 'carry' the other three in a sense. I feel there are a good dozen or so great long time players at this point in time and I'd prefer to see them rotated with the occasional one new player in the mix.
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> I realize all these performers have active professional schedules, but with that many good long time players around I would think that's very doable; also, they have a pretty good idea when JAM will be recorded from one series to the next annually so (I would hope) freeing up a slot or slots would be something they look forward to. Also, of the veteran active players around, most are in or coming into their middle age years and it's fairly safe to say that most of them are capable of playing at a high level of skill and entertainment for the next decade and much longer, so there is no huge need to train a bevy of new players at this point. I would think When Nic is gone having a solid core of well established loved players will be all the more important to the show's survival.
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> Can I ask how old you are and where you are from? I'm 43 myself, and from Norway. I work as a programmer and am responsible for keeping the communitys JAM shoutcast stream ("the JAMmer") up and running.
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> I'm 53 and from the US. I am an industrial maintenance person (hydraulics, mechanical, electrical, etc.)by profession and a computer/music/movie geek as a hobby.
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> If the shoutcast is what is the basis of Just A Minute radio on Tunein, then I'm a product of that effort, having discovered the show by pure accident!
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