I'm 100% not complaining about anything that is going on right now.  I like a good rotisserie.

At least Sony learned from their mistakes and incorporated some improvements to save time, like the best "overall" time tie-breaker, when warranted.

This is certainly a take.

What if they started teams at $0 and then awarded $1,000/point for a go at the WC, with a $5k bonus if they racked up a perfect score?  If I was producing, I wouldn't mention the $$ until the bonus round itself..."In the main game, you scored 18 points, so you're playing for $18,000.  Here is your first subject..."

Notwithstanding that there's forty years worth of inertia behind the 10, 20 and 25 numbers, this really isn't something you want to bring up just before the stagehand flips the 50 box. It works for Showoffs because you play a bonus to multiply the money from the first phase.

I think this was a circle that The Pyramid was never going to be able to square. Even in an entire half-season of Pyramid '02 there were only six $25,000 winners at most, and sometimes just four. (and we know we can thank the deck-stackers for that.) GSN wasn't ever going to have the prize fund to pay regular bonus wins of $25,000 in a single attempt so they hid it behind the perfect game, and a new generation of players who were figuring their way through the game again. Maybe they could have done the 10-then-25 of the old days but most end games would have a murderer's row in that top triangle of 400-500-750 so they don't find themselves in the problem of too many bonus wins in a period.

My point is that any solution was going to either come off as penny pinching (The $5,000 Pyramid would never fly) or extremely difficult to pull off and contestants who maybe get two tries in a day. That's one of the sacrifices to be made to clear the runway for a legacy property to get back on the air.

Perhaps we can look at it as The Pyramid walked so $100,00 Pyramid could jog.

Per the TPiRBarker twitter account:

"Celebrate #NationalGameShowDay with fresh episodes on The Price Is Right: The Barker Era! 🎉

48 new episodes from Season 14 will come to the channel starting May 28. Catch two hours daily from 2pm-4pm ET."

So we're getting to the last of Johnny Olson's episodes, and closer to the Rod Roddy episodes (but not quite yet?)....

Definitely.  I just saw a promo -- either on Buzzr or The Barker Channel -- touting Price coming to Buzzr next week.  And among the clips, it sure sounded like Gene Wood announcing a new car. 

IIRC, Gene was one of the first fill-ins after Johnny's passing.

According to an email I just got, the premiere episode is the only one that's going to drop on Amazon Prime Video first. All subsequent episodes will be done the normal way: airing Monday night on FOX, then dropping on Amazon Prime Video shortly after midnight Tuesday morning.

I remember seeing "Let's Make a Deal" in my local paper's TV listings, but it turned out to be an infomercial for the LMAD telephone game.