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The Future of TPIR: Post COVID-19
TimK2003:
Roger Dobkowitz made a post on Facebook questioning the future of TPIR (which can also be applied to LMAD) once the COVID-19 restrictions are relaxed:
--- Quote ---Here's a question I would like to ask my friends to think about...what will become of the Price is Right this year? Almost any TV show can tape without an audience (Jeopardy, Wheel, and even Dancing with the Stars). However, Price NEEDS an audience. When this emergency is over and people begin slowly to go back to normal lives, I am sure it will be slow. We will probably still keep a social distance for awhile. It will probably be a long, long, time until we are 100% normal.
So....when the show attempts to tape again, will people be willing to attend, will they require the audience to sit 6 feet apart, would they dare to attempt to preselect contestants and only have them in the studio. I worry that the show will be quite harmed in the next 12 months. They might have to go on hiatus until 2021
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I know that Roger still has a bit of animosity regarding his old employer, but he does have a few valid questions.
I guess that would also apply to the types of prizes both shows will offer as well. I think cruises will be off the table for a long time and any trips requiring an air flight I would think as well.
Is this the time CBS considers moving out of TV City to a smaller studio (CBS Radford or other) given the amount of people they now have to pay to see TPIR?
Maybe Mike Richards unknowingly chose the right time to jump ship and go to Sony??
Joe Mello:
I think the better question to ask isn't "Will Price be ready for the fall?" but instead "Will there actually be a fall TV season?"
Kevin Prather:
The lack of an audience will certainly be the most noticeable on TPIR, but it's not impossible.
tyshaun1:
I don't think it's as big of a deal as it's made out to be. They may have to go to online interviewing contestants in the LA area for a while and bringing 9 of them in at a time, possibly with a family member or friend, but the game itself wouldn't be affected. The question to me is how Drew's hosting would be affected, since he tends to play towards the studio audience more than the home audience.
colonial:
Given that the fall season (which, to be honest, could be a thing of the past once we start seeing a semblance of normalcy) starts in September, a show like TPIR should not have to worry about resuming production until August.
I do think that once the curve flattens and lawmakers start lifting stay-at-home orders, quarantines, etc., it will be a slow process to get back to "normal." But I also believe people want to experience some kind of normalcy again ASAP.
To be honest, I don't think TPIR and LMAD are on the top of CBS's "to-do" list on how to move forward in the COVID-19 era at this time. The Eye is probably much more concerned about the fate of its summer and fall "reality" shows (TAR and Survivor suspending production, Big Brother and Love Island both in a flux).
JD
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