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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: joshg on January 24, 2008, 06:56:34 AM
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From Variety...
http://www.variety.com/article/VR111797952...yid=14&cs=1 (http://\"http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117979524.html?categoryid=14&cs=1\")
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Just what we need -- more Price (which is a good thing).
Just what we need -- more reruns on Wednesdays (which is a bad thing).
No doubt the competition has pummeled Power of 10 -- that's a great game show; too bad it's on opposite DOND.
I also anticipate NBC moving 1 vs. 100 to another time slot, just to get out of TPIR's way.
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I'm actually surprised they are doing this many.
As of now, they tape 2/11-2/13
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Funny. I'd been thinking that, if Drew could handle the workload, a Po10/TPiR pairing would have been natural (albeit with the obvious jokes about having 30 seconds to fly cross-country.)
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I note the lack of the words "Million Dollar Spectacular" in the reports (and the CBS press release, up at thefutoncritic). I can only cross my fingers that stunt has been abandoned.
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So they still plan to air Po10 during the summer. I can live with that.
/One of the few primetime shows that deserves to stay on the air
//That and 1 vs. 100
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I hope they're not surprised at the ratings, considering the questionable scheduling from the get-go.
If they have a meeting to wonder why, there's every reason for Bill Engvall to walk in and give 'em a "Here's your sign" routine.
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Power of 10 is pulled...
...which sucks, because this could have been CBS's golden opportunity to have Drew back to back.
If this is just standard nighttime TPIR, minus the guaranteed $1 million spins, minus themed shows, and keeping a slightly augmented prize budget, count me in.
The Inquisitive One
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[quote name=\'rugrats1\' post=\'176082\' date=\'Jan 24 2008, 07:20 AM\']
No doubt the competition has pummeled Power of 10 -- that's a great game show; too bad it's on opposite DOND.
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Trust me, if it was only against DoND, there wouldn't be a problem. It's that jugger-not-worth-watching on FOX that killed it for good.
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[quote name=\'Mr. Armadillo\' post=\'176236\' date=\'Jan 25 2008, 10:32 AM\']
[Trust me, if it was only against DoND, there wouldn't be a problem. It's that jugger-not-worth-watching on FOX that killed it for good.
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It may not be FOR GOOD. The article says CBS plans to bring it back next summer. I know the networks many times have backed off such statements many times. However, the episdoes are completed, it did better in the summer, and CBS now has a reason to want to keep Drew happy. So I would take CBS at it word that it will be back next summer.
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[quote name=\'Chuck Sutton\' post=\'176243\' date=\'Jan 25 2008, 10:14 AM\']
[quote name=\'Mr. Armadillo\' post=\'176236\' date=\'Jan 25 2008, 10:32 AM\']
[Trust me, if it was only against DoND, there wouldn't be a problem. It's that jugger-not-worth-watching on FOX that killed it for good.
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It may not be FOR GOOD. The article says CBS plans to bring it back next summer. I know the networks many times have backed off such statements many times. However, the episdoes are completed, it did better in the summer, and CBS now has a reason to want to keep Drew happy. So I would take CBS at it word that it will be back next summer.
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And it's a lot easier to get a game show back in production. They're not going to return in the summer with just the two unaired episodes.
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[quote name=\'Chuck Sutton\' post=\'176243\' date=\'Jan 25 2008, 10:14 AM\']
However, the episdoes are completed, it did better in the summer, and CBS now has a reason to want to keep Drew happy. So I would take CBS at it word that it will be back next summer.
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Man, can you imagine the anxiety of being a contestant who won a sizable sum on an unaired ep waiting for word? I imagine PO10 has the same standard "if it doesn't air, you might not get paid" disclaimer that the others do..
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Does anyone know if there's been more talk about taking PIR on the road? Drew mentioned it in a few interviews before he took over, but I've not heard anything since.
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Power of 10 Grand Sharks
There, fixed that for you.
(See, it's a reference to Power of 10 being a rip-off derivative fusion of Card Sharks and Grand Game.)
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[quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'176313\' date=\'Jan 25 2008, 04:51 PM\']
Power of 10 Grand Sharks
There, fixed that for you.
(See, it's a reference to Power of 10 being a rip-off derivative fusion of Card Sharks and Grand Game.)[/quote]Except it's not. Card Sharks might have been more interesting if the two contestants each logged a guess, but they didn't.
And to say that any format that uses a "predict the survey" element is a rip-off of Family Feud or Card Sharks is silly.
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And to say that any format that uses a "predict the survey" element is a rip-off of Family Feud or Card Sharks is silly.
And to say it's not is even sillier. Each and every question used on Power of 10 could just as easily be used verbatim on Card Sharks.
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I never liked Power of 10 to begin with. It's unfortunate when a game show gets pulled, but as Chris said, it's a totally unoriginal format. In my observation, the show only kept itself alive by seeing how out there its survey questions could get. Drew did a great job as host there but the show itself just wasn't good enough IMO.
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[quote name=\'PYLFan28\' post=\'176331\' date=\'Jan 25 2008, 11:57 PM\']
In my observation, the show only kept itself alive by seeing how out there its survey questions could get.
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that, and the $10,000,000 gimmick.. which, to anyone who saw the first episode knows it will never be taken that far ..
/unless they cast Richard Branson as a contestant
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I'll welcome any opportunity to not have to watch Richard Brian DiPirro get reaction shots of the Duhm Triplets missing yet another easy question, like they did last night. Go Nighttime Price!
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[quote name=\'davemackey\' post=\'176342\' date=\'Jan 26 2008, 06:33 AM\']
I'll welcome any opportunity to not have to watch Richard Brian DiPirro get reaction shots of the Duhm Triplets missing yet another easy question, like they did last night.[/quote]
But you gotta give him the nice reaction shots of Oscar the Grouch...
By the way, how long does a player get to stay in the Mob these days?
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futon's reporting now that DPIR will only go up against 1vs100 the first nite, which is Saget's scheduled season finale. The rest of the time they'll be up against Dennis miller's "Amne$ia", which premieres after said season finale and moves up an hour the next week in the fine tradition of NBC game shows.
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[quote name=\'ChrisLambert!\' post=\'176359\' date=\'Jan 26 2008, 11:54 AM\']
futon's reporting now that DPIR will only go up against 1vs100 the first nite, which is Saget's scheduled season finale. The rest of the time they'll be up against Dennis miller's "Amne$ia", which premieres after said season finale and moves up an hour the next week in the fine tradition of NBC game shows.
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Wow. Does NBC even remotely think that Ame$ia even stands a chance against Drew?
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Now I will have something to look forward to on Friday nights. :D
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Another factor here is producing TPIR is cheaper to produce than P10. It costs money to fly Drew to NYC (and back to LA), put him up in a hotel for a couple days, and we even haven't touched the extra cost for a crew and so on...
Adding a couple tape dates and finding prizes isn't that big of a deal, really.
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[quote name=\'Terry K\' post=\'176446\' date=\'Jan 28 2008, 12:47 AM\']
Another factor here is producing TPIR is cheaper to produce than P10. It costs money to fly Drew to NYC (and back to LA), put him up in a hotel for a couple days, and we even haven't touched the extra cost for a crew and so on...
Adding a couple tape dates and finding prizes isn't that big of a deal, really.
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Barring the enormous cash prizes of Po10, productionwise, I would wager TPIR is way more expensive to produce than Po10. Consider all of the people-handlers and organization of corralling 330 people around for hours, all the movement of intricate props, the arrangement and organization of all the merchandise, TPiR appears to be much more of a production than Po10.
btw, the cost of an LAX-JFK flight (even private) and hotel is pennies for CBS as they undoubtedly fly in and put hundreds of people up in hotel rooms in NYC over the course of the year for celebs, Early Show & Letterman guests -- they likely have something negotiated (note American Airlines' "CBS Eye on American", coincidentally) so that couldn't be much of a factor either :D
/Wouldn't Drew have his own Gulfstream by now?
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[quote name=\'lobster\' post=\'176447\' date=\'Jan 28 2008, 05:47 AM\']
/Wouldn't Drew have his own Gulfstream by now?
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Man, I hope not. He'd be so much more fun to have on a commercial flight--even if, since he'd be in First Class and I'd be in Steerage, I only knew he was there by hearing that high-pitched giggle.
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Another factor here is producing TPIR is cheaper to produce than P10. It costs money to fly Drew to NYC...
Doesn't he commute *to* California for TPIR?
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[quote name=\'HYHYBT\' post=\'176530\' date=\'Jan 28 2008, 07:57 PM\']
Doesn't he commute *to* California for TPIR?[/quote]
No. He lives in L.A..
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Drew seems to be handling the news well... (http://\"http://www.creators.com/lifestylefeatures/hollywood-exclusive/the-hollywood-exclusive-2008-01-29.html\")
"Boo ho," he says. "Now I've only got one show on the air. Feel sorry for me."
He's kidding. He feels that being host of "The Price is Right" has made him one of the luckiest men in show business -- and is delighted there will soon be double doses of the venerable show with CBS greenlighting six hour-long episodes of the series to air Fridays at 8 p.m. starting Feb. 22.
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By the way , France is going to air is own version of
Power of Ten Power of Five .
Yup, they'll only go multipling x5 each time -- but still with a 1,000,000€ top prize .
I'm not sure *that* will work.
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[quote name=\'Setsunael\' post=\'176726\' date=\'Jan 31 2008, 12:53 AM\']
By the way , France is going to air is own version of Power of Ten Power of Five .
Yup, they'll only go multipling x5 each time -- but still with a 1,000,000€ top prize .
I'm not sure *that* will work.
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Don't see why not:
1,000,000
200,000
40,000
8,000
1,600
So their first question is actually worth a little more than twice what ours is. Seems to work fine.