Once upon a midnight dreary, Price is Right had 44 minutes of actual air time and 16 minutes of commercials.
Certain pricing games could be sped up too.  Pocket Change is a prime example of this.  Rather than have the contestant walk over and pick an envelope off the board after each number is filled into the car price, just have them select the 4 envelopes off the board at the start of the game!

You've mentioned this and I think it underlines a fundamental misunderstanding of what a game show or indeed a TV show is about. Pocket Change is timed out to have a certain amount of time allotted to that segment and saving the twenty seconds isn't worth the idea of "you got the number right, your reward is getting to go to the board and playing with the prop.

If Pocket Change can be reduced to a single trip to the board, why not build a lectern station near home base and the contestant plays the games from there? Or heck, let the contestant stay standing at contestants row which the shlubs have to sit down and Drew sidles over to the winner and the models carry out directives for the player by proxy?

The increase of commercial time is partially due to the fact that they aren't getting nearly as much money from promoting groceries, small items and the like.

This was a lot of words to offer no actual improvements whatsoever.

In other words, TL;DR.

They could also take fifteen mins off LMAD and given them to TPIR.

Great for markets where the two air back to back in the morning. 

Not so great for markets like mine, where we run "Live" at 10am and take the 3pm feed of LMAD.

I would not change rules of games. I might instruct Drew to cut down on his patter like there’s a second chance, this is like a puzzle and such, but that is likely smatt steps when larger ones are needed so that fully half of the contestants on stage are not playing SBS, Squeeze Play and Pick a Number.

I know I’ve mentioned this before-

Cut one full cycle of one bid and game. Top winner moves straight through to the showcase. Remaining four spin off for the last segment.


I think the move to this particular studio was Penny bright and pound foolish where the storage is far away and the doors/space behind are not large enough to accommodate everything.

They could also take fifteen mins off LMAD and given them to TPIR.

Bill Cullen throws potatoes at contestants

that would be a funny.