CHICAGO — 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 on which 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,” Norville, 67, said 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 beaut

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