After nearly a half-century of doing television news, Deborah Norville, the former Chicago star who became the longest-serving female anchor in TV history at the nationally syndicated “Inside Edition,” is ready to try something different: game show host.

Norville is now presiding over “The Perfect Line,” a recently launched syndicated game show where the former news anchor cheerfully guides contestants through the trivial pursuit of placing things in the correct order for cash prizes in front of a studio audience.

“My career arc has been phenomenal,” said Norville, 67, during a recent promotional visit to Chicago. “I’ve got nothing but gratitude. But no, I never thought I’d be doing a game show.”

When Norville arrived in Chicago in January 1982, the 23-year-old former beauty queen from

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