‘Wheel of Fortune’ Fans Riot Over ‘Awful’ Revamped Show With …

Is the caller Wheel of Fortune “awful” now? That’s what fans of the long-running tv staple are saying.

The ABC daytime crippled amusement debuted its caller look portion kicking disconnected the caller season.

Following the departure of Pat Sajak, Wheel of Fortune present has two co-hosts: beloved American icon Vanna White, and … Ryan Seacrest, for immoderate reason.

Viewers are tuning successful … and feeling turned disconnected by the caller instrumentality connected Wheel of Fortune. Why? Here’s a hint: they’re not taking contented with Vanna.

On the caller Wheel of Fortune, Vanna White and Ryan Seacrest enactment arsenic co-hosts. (Image Credit: ABC)

‘Wheel of Fortune’ has returned!

On Monday, September 9, ABC aired the archetypal caller occurrence of Wheel of Fortune.

Pat Sajak retired aft 41 seasons arsenic the show’s host. After entertaining full generations, helium surely earned a break.

In summation to the caller hosts, ABC debuted Wheel of Fortune‘s marque caller set. Many parts of the acceptable person flashy lights, vibrant bluish backgrounds, greenish panels, and more.

However, viewers who got an eyeful of the caller acceptable seemed disappointed oregon adjacent repulsed by the revamp.

From the walls to the puzzle board, they’re not liking what they’re seeing.

The aged puzzle committee was a elemental achromatic backdrop with a framework of greenish (specifically, turquoise) lights. The committee present has a golden framework on with greenish accents.

Is ‘Wheel of Fortune’ truly atrocious now?

To beryllium fair, the Wheel of Fortune puzzle committee has gone done galore looks implicit the years. It has had adjacent much obnoxious golden framing than it does now.

However, we should enactment that what worked connected tv successful the ’90s doesn’t needfully enactment successful 2024. We don’t conscionable mean all-white casts, but visual elements.

Televisions are vastly amended than they were successful the 1990s. It’s imaginable that the existent iteration of the amusement is excessively visually aggravated for viewers — particularly connected a amusement wherever the assemblage tends to beryllium a small older.

A bid of Instagram comments lament the caller look of Wheel of Fortune successful September 2024. (Image Credit: Instagram)

However, we person to constituent retired that galore radical are resistant to change. A elemental UI alteration connected societal media tin person users logging successful and saying “this is not my beauteous wife.”

Additionally, radical look to beryllium inactive processing the lack of Pat Sajak. The antheral himself became an instauration aft decades connected the show. So, yes, it’s an adjustment.

Adapting to alteration — adjacent neutral alteration — tin beryllium a challenge. Blue and greenish lighting, puzzle portion shapes, gears and much are conscionable different. Even if they are worse than the aged look, radical volition turn accustomed to it.

Stepping into his relation arsenic co-host of Wheel of Fortune, Ryan Seacrest has large shoes to fill. (Image Credit: ABC)

How bash radical similar the caller hosts?

Vanna White is wide beloved. Like Pat Sajak, she spent decades connected Wheel of Fortune. Over the years, she became a household name, adjacent negotiating for amended wage — and present her co-hosting gig.

Meanwhile, Ryan Seacrest is besides a household name. While he’s not precisely universally beloved (with bully reason), he’s surely a acquainted look connected television.

It’s casual to marque drawback judgments astir the set. It could instrumentality weeks, oregon more, earlier viewers scope a statement connected the hosting situation. In that time, possibly the bluish and greenish lights volition halt feeling truthful “new.”