A half-hour TV show with Arthur Waite or one with Miss Cleo?
Miss Cleo, she's already proved she can build and hold and audience.
Mathers or Mdme. Leonormand?
Although it was pre-TV, Mathers, too, proved himself a showman.
Crowley or Sybil Leek?
I doubt Mr. Crowley would do something that required the cooperative effort involved in making a television show. (Are we talking AFTRA here? It's hard to imagine him holding a union job.) Ms. Leek looked like somebody's Auntie Sybil, and could have been the Wiccan Mother Angellica. [For those who don't know American religious broadcasting, this a vote for Leek. Mother Angelica is Big.]
Tarotbear dressed conservatively or Madame ZAZA who 'knows all and See all?
TB will have a cult following of bear queens, who will try to peek up his sleeves to see his arm hair as he shuffles. How can Madame ZAZA compete with that?
Maurice Woodruff or the storefront reader with the big crystal ball on her store sign?
Miss Cleo in reverse. These people have already proved they can't build and hold an audience large enough to keep a show on the air. Their only chance would be a reality show where each fortune teller had to predict how everyone would vote on who was going to be thrown out of the Big Psychic House. The one with the most accurate prediction would have the Astral Power of Veto.
All of this works out to a mix of men and women. I suspect that people generally expect readers to be women. But how accepting they are of a male reader probably has more to do with the reader's personal style than with the assumptions people had before they met him or saw him in action.
-shaveling
! Yep, I'm a man, I love my Formula One, farting, food, fooling and females (not in necessarily in that order). Did I chose Tarot, or did Tarot chose me?