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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: JayDLewis on May 02, 2011, 08:56:13 PM
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According to Drew's twitters (both @DrewFromTV and @TPIRhost) the show they taped today will air tomorrow.
The show is a special "Military Families" show. This is <Barker> an historic moment </Barker> as the fastest ever turn around for Price, barring live episodes from the Cullen era.
Thought it was worth mentioning...
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This was obviously set up in advance, so I'm going to guess this was originally intended to be a Fourth of July show. Impressive that they were able to have the show air ready in less than 24 hours.
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I'm going to guess this was originally intended to be a Fourth of July show.
More likely Memorial Day.
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May 20, I believe.
And no, I don't understand that, either.
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May 20, I believe.
I wonder if it was a screwup operating under the assumption that Memorial Day was gonna be on the 23rd, since that's about the time of the month it usually is. 'Cuz doing something like that to kick off the long weekend makes perfect sense to me.
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I wonder if it was a screwup operating under the assumption that Memorial Day was gonna be on the 23rd, since that's about the time of the month it usually is. 'Cuz doing something like that to kick off the long weekend makes perfect sense to me.
I can see the logic behind that, but if they were planning it as something centered around Memorial Day, why wouldn't they just do it on (what they thought was) Memorial Day?
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I wonder if it was a screwup operating under the assumption that Memorial Day was gonna be on the 23rd, since that's about the time of the month it usually is. 'Cuz doing something like that to kick off the long weekend makes perfect sense to me.
I can see the logic behind that, but if they were planning it as something centered around Memorial Day, why wouldn't they just do it on (what they thought was) Memorial Day?
Hotshotting part or all of a show to take advantage of a topical uber-patriotic moment? Clutch the pearls!
/yes, I'm looking at you, WWE
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I wonder if it was a screwup operating under the assumption that Memorial Day was gonna be on the 23rd, since that's about the time of the month it usually is. 'Cuz doing something like that to kick off the long weekend makes perfect sense to me.
I can see the logic behind that, but if they were planning it as something centered around Memorial Day, why wouldn't they just do it on (what they thought was) Memorial Day?
Hotshotting part or all of a show to take advantage of a topical uber-patriotic moment? Clutch the pearls!
I don't think that's what he meant. His question is why the show was initially scheduled for May 20 instead of Memorial Day (which is when it would have made the most sense to air had Sunday's events not happened), not why it was moved to today.
My guess, FWIW, May 20 counts for sweeps. Memorial Day doesn't.
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My guess, FWIW, May 20 counts for sweeps. Memorial Day doesn't.
Oh, outstanding point.
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Aside: did they do the regular Salute to the Military episode for this season?
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Aside: did they do the regular Salute to the Military episode for this season?
I think so. They usually do it on Veteran's Day.
/Which also happens to be my birthday.
//And Jim Perry's.
///In case you want to send us both a card.
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///In case you want to send us both a card.
That's the Definition of a Jim Perry pun.
Good night.
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Actually, the show that aired yesterday(5/3) that was suppose to air on 5/20 was plammed for Armed Forces Day(5/21), not Memorial Day which happens to be May 30 this year because Memorial Day always falls on the last Monday in May.
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because Memorial Day always falls on the last Monday in May.
They say you learn something new every day.
This is not one of those cases.
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They say you learn something new every day.
This is not one of those cases.
Oh? You were aware of when Armed Forces Day fell? You're a better man than I am, then.
Seems for as much (justified) bashing as Karlberg gets, he was actually the one that came forward with the bit of information that explains the logic behind the original air-date pretty definitively. I have to give him props for that.
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Today’s episode promotes a Broadway show with an appearance by its stars. I wonder if fans of TPiR would be angry if they knew that money on special guests was money that can’t be spent on giving away prizes.
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Today’s episode promotes a Broadway show with an appearance by its stars. I wonder if fans of TPiR would be angry if they knew that money on special guests was money that can’t be spent on offering prizes contestants won't win because Mikey likes days when 1 out of 6 games is won.
FTFY.
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My guess, FWIW, May 20 counts for sweeps. Memorial Day doesn't.
Not only does Memorial Day not count toward sweeps; it doesn't count on the season at all.
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I wonder if fans of TPiR would be angry if they knew that money on special guests was money that can’t be spent on giving away prizes.
I may be speaking ex-rectum here, and would appreciate if someone more knowledgeable would chime in. That said, I imagine there are two separate budgets for "prizes" and "talent", which I think that Broadway stars would fall under.
That's (again) another assumption--that the show paid them. For all you or I know, they paid the show to make the appearance. Are you one of the "angry" fans?
/Matt Ottinger is flat-chested.
//But not a bimbo.
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I don't know that money for special guests comes out of the prize budget. Then again, I don't really know what it does come out of, either -- this isn't something they used to do a whole lot of.
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I don't know that money for special guests comes out of the prize budget. Then again, I don't really know what it does come out of, either -- this isn't something they used to do a whole lot of.
It comes out of the above-the-line budget along with announcers, models and perhaps but not certainly, Drew.
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Any chance that in the time honored tradition of game shows, the producers of Rain paid to be on TPIR that day? Or at least free.
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I was wondering about music rights...did they have to pay for every snippet of Beatles music? 'Cause, if so, that would have to be crazy expensive.
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Not really. It depends on the arrangement with EMI or Harry Fox agency. It also could have been tied into the "prizes in exchange for promotional purposes".
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I was wondering about music rights...did they have to pay for every snippet of Beatles music? 'Cause, if so, that would have to be crazy expensive.
Funny coincidence: Jason Antoniewicz and I were discussing this last night, and right in the middle of the conversation, Ferguson comes on and says he was "Livin' la Vida Loca. At least that's what we were listening to during the commercial. We can't play it once we come on the air, becaues then we'd have to pay for it, and CBS doesn't like to do that."
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I don't know that money for special guests comes out of the prize budget. Then again, I don't really know what it does come out of, either -- this isn't something they used to do a whole lot of.
It comes out of the above-the-line budget along with announcers, models and perhaps but not certainly, Drew.
Could that help explain the two-model days we've been seeing recently?
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About the Monday, 5/16 episode of TPiR:I found out why Drew doesn't reveal the first digit on Temptation. He keeps forgetting that he reveals the correct digits himself!