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Article: Harry Friedman.
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- Broadcasting & Cable
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- October 22, 2007
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By Rob Edelstein
The executive producer of 'Wheel' and 'Jeopardy' created iconic television
As each weekday slopes into evening, and we return home from work and settle in with family, America's thoughts turn to Harry Friedman.
Not the man directly, perhaps, but more than anybody else in television, Friedman-executive producer since 1999 of the two highest-rated series in syndication, the dinnertime staples Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy -has kept viewers entertained, challenged and amused with game shows that are as American as pennant races and peach cobbler. Let the battles rage for supremacy of primetime and late night. Harry Friedman owns ...