Drew Carey loses a job but gains more exposure for his leading show. First off, CBS is pulling Power of 10 as of today. The show might be back in the summer, but Wednesday night’s episode was the final one. Huge shame, because CBS really did not seem to care to switch its time slot out of two major show killers: American Idol and Deal or No Deal. I’m sure there had to be a better slot for it like Fridays at 8:00PM ET. CBS is saying they are still committed to the show and might have new episodes in the summer, but I’ll believe it when I see it. Such a shame, as it was one of the most dramatic, compelling, and fun primetime shows in a really long time.
Don’t feel bad for Drew, though. CBS is bringing back their trusty old The Price is Right primetime specials. No word on if they will be for $1,000,000 or not, but the first one will be on Friday, February 22nd, at 8:00PM ET. Six of the hour-long primetime specials have been ordered to cut down on excessive reruns from the writer’s strike. CBS has two other game shows, Do You Trust Me? (AKA Extreme Friend or Foe?) and Million Dollar Password (AKA “Oh crap here comes another Fremantle revival) waiting in the wings still.
So some really good news and rather bad news all in one. Sadly I think this might bode really negatively for a syndicated series of Power of 10 which was being developed, but here’s to hoping it still has a shot.
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NO! I knew Power of 10 was going to get pulled. It was one of my fav primetime game shows. I wish NBC would sabotage Deal or No Deal by cutting the prize money down from 1 million to 10,000 dollars and eliminate the cases. But I’m looking forward to the TPIR primetime specials. At least Drew doesn’t have to fly back and forth between NYC and LA anytime soon.
Such a shame that Po10 is getting plucked off the schedule. I much rather see the barrel going up and down than Simon’s bashing and seeing Howie take 15 minutes to open the case. At least we have TPIR Primetime; that’ll be a sight to see.
I hope that the power of 10 gets brought back around may or june. I think that The Power of 10 is a great show and I hate the fact it was against DOND a show i really enjoy and AI a show I really can’t stand to watch. I don’t know if anyone from CBS read this but bring this back in around may and put it on tuesday and fridays at 8/7 central or even at 9/8 central would be alright. Power of 10 is one of the most entertaining gameshows I’ve seen in a long time. Drew Carey does a great job on this show and the questions are really thought provoking. I think sometimes i know the answers and i find that I am wayoff but other times I find that i am very close. This is one of those games that I would do ok at and even if i went home with $1,000 or $10,000 thats more money than I’ve seen in a long time. I really do hope that Million Dollar Password is good and has some of the elements from either password plus or super password because i enjoyed trying to solve the password puzzles. Do You Trust Me ( friend of foe was an ok show on GSN so who knows where i would like this or not. I think a twice a week run for Power of 10 would help the show i feel maybe even once in a while do a three a week run but not too often on that. I would think to fill up some slots becuase of the writer’s strike they would use at least another airing of this show a week.
Very sad. It seems as if no one at CBS has heard the term “counterprogramming.” You don’t put a show like P10 up against DOND or especially American Idol. You put it up against something else. It would have done well on another night in another time slot. I will be eager to see what they slot in this spot instead, and how the ratings are.
Howver, it must be said that were it not for P10, Drew would not be host of TPIR…so we can be thankful at least for that.
Very simply, CBS had the counterprogramming nailed with NCIS vs Idol. I’m presuming NCIS is a victim of the strike, so what you do is you put reruns in that slot (most won’t notice), put out original unscripted shows (read: Power of 10) in other slots. It might well have stood a chance against a fading 1 vs 100 on Fridays, and perhaps could have been used as a lead-in for… heck, make Friday a games night. Power of 10 at 8, Million Dollar Password at 9, Do You Trust Me at 10. And give up on Tuesdays and make it a rerun night (NCIS at 8, two different CSIs at 9 and 10 - the CSIs do very well indeed in reruns).
That’s my thinking anyway. Feel free to point out what I’m missing from viewing your market from the outside in.
I could care less about American Idol. Power of 10 and Deal or No Deal are both great shows, but DoND is still high up there in the ratings. Po10 is a great show, one of the best primetime shows in a while! What killed it, as everybody said, was the time slot. Just because Po10 was in a bad timeslot, doesn’t mean it’s a bad show. All you have to do is find the right time to air it, when there are other shows that are not competitive, so people can watch it and enjoy it. I was able to catch Deal and Power by flipping channels here and there, and caught a glimpse of each one.
It would be nice if CBS can put the remaining episodes of the season on Innertube.
Maybe if Power of 10 had the players guess their answer from 100 different cases. They don’t know what they are going to pick, but it will be exciting right? Right? RIGHT? RIg…..never mind.
Great news for TPIR though. I’ve always thought they should be doing a weekly primetime version of this show. Forget the specials, put it on every week for 8 or 13 weeks and see how it goes. The MDS’ have always done well ratings wise. Why not make a show called the $1,000,000 Price Is Right?
Po10 is suffering the fate of NBC’s Let’s Make a Deal from a few years back. Why the hell would you put that show up against AI? It’s a shame!
Btw, has anybody here watched more than 5 mins. of AI?
Power was also cancelled, because the audience got sick of seeing seeing a lot of people leave with just $1,000 and the rest leaving with nothing. Few BIG winners is what got Greed cancelled early too.
Primetime games have to learn that players leaving with something is better
(Parting Gifts or Consolation Cash) than a bunch of people leaving with nothing. There a reason why Deal is so popular–your guareented to win something, even a penny.
I was too busy watching PBS’s special on game shows to watch most of last night’s Power of 10.
It seems to me the show faced the same lousy scheduling as another short-lived CBS gameshow (Winning Lines, which was placed on the dreaded Saturday dead zone).
It’s really too bad such good shows die young while at the mercy of poor programming choices. (Why not place it on after, oh, I don’t know, American Idol? Seriously, it’s just like network executives to intentionally kill decent shows in order to make room for more pathetic filler.)
Oh, and in another bit of cheery news, the WGA has dropped its’ proposal to unionize animation and reality TV writers (if it wasn’t for game shows, I wouldn’t have given a damn about reality TV writers, and I want to get into animation scriptwriting, so this can’t possibly be good).
So, anyone got any good news to share with the rest of us?
LaJuan: Do you even remember what Let’s Make A Deal from 2003 was like? It was a hideous travesty of a classic. When I saw the tag line “From The Producers of Blind Date”, I should’ve known it was going to be trouble. That, and the fact that NBC has to use Billy Bush for every damn entertainment show of theirs (’07 Emmys news conference notwithstanding), pretty much caused the revival to sink faster than a cinder block on a raft.
captparis1: You bring up a good point (sort of)- One of the major weaknesses of all-or-nothing big-money shows is just that: getting nothing for all that effort. Hell, at least on Tic-Tac-Dough, you won money if you got at least one tie during the match (and, unless you really sucked, you were guaranteed $1000 on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire). On top of that, you were also guaranteed at least $1000 for appearing on Wheel of Fortune.
Temptation, on the other hand, needs to give (executive producer) Ginger Simpson a 90% pay cut so that the rest of the money can go towards some decent parting gifts (instead of getting a photo taken with Huckster McSleezeball… I mean, Rossi Morreale, and a t-shirt that reads, “I was on Temptation- please end my misery”).
On the flip-side, though, people tune in to big-budget, big-money shows just so they can see how much contestants are able to rack up in one run (it’s no fun if all someone wins is a measly $100 and dinner at a dive bar). Why else are dumb shows like Deal or No Deal a hit with the 18-49 crowd? (Hint: It’s like the lottery, only with briefcases instead of tickets.) Why does American Idol bring in tens of millions of viewers every week? (Hint: They either want to look up to the next breakout star or laugh at how pathetic some of the other contestants are, instead of trying to improve their own lives or the lives of those around them.)
To put it simply, big-money shows are like a double-edged sword, with one side sharper than the other.
I’m not sure why CBS put Po10 against Idol and DoND, but was it because viewers though Drew Carey was ruining the Price is Right?
Viewers think Drew is ruining TPIR…………BULLCRAP!
Anyway, Po10 is too good of show, and it should return in the Summer! It is a successful show that gets decent ratings in spite of putting up against DoND and AI.
On the other hand…. MORE PRIMETIME TPIR……..YEAH BABY! Also, I hope Do You Trust Me and Million Dollar Password do well, then we’ll have 3 or 4 good CBS primetime games to fall back on.
hey they get $100 cash now for leaving with nada on Temptation, at least eps I saw this week.
To reply to a couple of comments:
I saw Billy Bush hosting Millionaire last year (it won’t air until June) He was FAR better than Meredith the Bore.
And yes, let’s bash Million Dollar Password before we see one second of film. Suuuuuuure.
That is sad that Power Of 10 was pulled… But that is all CBS’ fault for putting the show in a death time slot against “We Can’t Give Away One Million Dollars Even If We Try” aka Deal or No Deal and that other AWFUL show that should be illegal in the United States aka American Idol.
The primetime Price Is Right better be for $1,000,000… Anyone else notice on The Price Is Right that there just do not seem to be as many games as before? I swear every day I see Switcharoo, Double Prices, and Barkers Bargin Bar.
This is a fairly useless posting, since I’m not doing much more than agreeing with the majority here. I’m sad that Po10 was pulled (although admittedly, I barely found the free time on Wednesdays to watch it, although I wanted to). And I’m happy that TPiR is coming back for some primetime action… although I’m not sure I’m as excited for it as I was the first time it went PT. It’s weird, it seemed like such a magical occurrence back then, but now it’s almost expected that TPiR go primetime once in a while. (*sigh*) C’est la vie, I guess.
Aargh, I knew AI and DoND would eventually overpower Po10 (pardon the pun). I’d rather watch Po10 over those two drecks any day. AI is just getting old, and I can’t bear to watch DoND now, what with that Million Dollar Mission going on (they’re really desperate, aren’t they?) and such.
To reply to catparis: I was actually toying around with an idea to add money to the elimination round to make it seem a lot less…extraneous, shall we say? Each winning question nets the player $100 plus $10 for every point his opponent was off–if the player’s on the nose, add a $1,000 bonus. I’d retain the 3-outta-5 rule, though. While it may detract a bit from the theme of the “10″, at least we see non-winning players go home with something (unless they bomb out, anyway…$10 consolation prize for them, maybe?).
Sorry, meant replying to captparis…
Well…..that sucks.
Po10 in a 3way with DoND and Idol? Instant Death. They should keep Po10 for the summer sched. But on the other hand. Can you say Million Dollar Spectacular? Joy!
$10 says that the people that have been ragging on Drew are either Diehard Bob Barker fans or they’ve never even watched TPiR lately.
POWER OF 10’s yanking from the airwaves almost reminds me of the way NBC f****d over TWENTY ONE in 2000. I’ve always had a problem with the logic behind “why spend all that money on a TV show, when you’re not gonna bother promoting the hell out of it?” 21 proved itself to be a halfway-decent enough game show that it was at least in the Top 20 ratings-wise, but I digress…POWER OF 10 would likely have fared better against 1 vs. 100 without breaking a sweat.
Speaking of which, after noticing the comments about what changes or tweaks should be done to Po10, I brought this up before: The player who wins the head-to-head round, should be declared the “champion,” and unless they win the $1M or $10M payoff, should get a chance to defend their title against a new opponent. One way would be if they blow it at the $1K, $10K, or $100K
level. Losing contestants from the head-to-head round, should get $500 as a consolation prize.
Otherwise, I’d leave it alone…
To Dayton Weather Guy: Yeah, they’re playing a lot of the same games, because as has been stated many times on buzzerblog THEY ARE AIRING THE SHOWS OUT OF ORDER. Drew learned the pricing games in sets, starting with the easiest games and working his way up to the hardest, learning about 6-9 games every couple of weeks. Since CBS is still airing episodes from back in October, yes, the games are going to the same.
Though starting next week, it looks like we go to December-taped shows, which should provide some more variety in the pricing game lineup.
POWER OF 10 should have never gone up against DEAL OR NO DEAL PERIOD!!!!!!!!!! Hopefully they will bring back POWER OF 10 for the summer because DEAL OR NO DEAL usually takes the summer off!
Power of 10 did not deserve to go down like this. In truth it was the better primetime game show, way better than Deal or No Deal and sadly like Duel a great show that wasn’t pulling in the ratings. so now we have to Deal with it 1 vs. 100 times asking the question are you smarter than a 5th grader. In the words of the great poet, Montgomery Scott, I just don’t have the Power (of 10).
To Mr. Brown:
Thanks for the information. I knew they were airing out of order but I thought that was just for the first few weeks of airing.
I knew that putting Pof10 up against DOND was a bad idea…the excitement towards getting the first million has been mounting…and, as we all remember, Pof10 had the first millionaire on the first show…sort of anti-climatic, in my opinion.
But, I do have to say one thing…I actually hope Fremantle does more classics (a la Password). True, they’ve screwed up in the past (remember the 2000 version of Card Sharks?)…but Password is a classic…the only way the show could be ruined is if Regis uses it as a vehicle for his own schtick…and if Betty White has any say (which I hope she does), that’ll never happen.
Regis was HORRIBLE as a player on Password Plus…I saw him on GSN playing it. I just hope he can SHUT UP, and let the game play itself out.
Maybe they should’ve put it up against Friday Night Smackdown! Now, that’s one schedule piece right here.
power of ten is cool but price is right rox way better!
Shame Po10 never got a decent chance - perhaps the first contestant winning $1,000,000 was something the show couldn’t encore?
Any word yet on when MDPW will air? Would like to see before I judge…
Earlier post mentioned Winning Lines: Wonderwall - BEST…ENDGAME…EVER…
Charter example of a good UK show effed up by people in the States; the Brit version of CatchPhrase lasted 5 times longer than the Art James version (thank you Roy Walker (the Brit host)) and generated the most outrageous unexpected moment ever (Snake Charmer - if you don’t get the reference, go to YouTube).
Let me open the question: Which classic game shows would you like to see revived or modernized, and how would you do it?
GOD, I hate cynics!
Anyway, MakeSant318, I don’t believe the U.S. “effed” up Wining Lines at all. It was very good show with one of the all time great hosts (Dick Clark). The reason for it’s short life could have been timeslot issues, ratings, or some other reason. But the game, in and of itself was great!
Oh, and I think most would agree that, if anything, the UK has “effed” up it’s own creation (Millionaire) by cutting the stack of questions from 15 to 12! The U.S. version is now truly superior in my book!
Also, there are several examples of the UK has “effing” (I’ve got to stop using that word!) up OUR classics and exports, too! ( UK TPIR with JOE P. anyone?) Look, what I’m trying to say is no country is perfect when it comes to game shows. The U.S. and U.K. are probably head and shoulders above everyone else, but no country is perfect.
Winning Lines’ 2nd round was horribly flawed. Other than that, it was a great game. The 8 PM Saturday time slot did not give the show justice.
I’ve brought this up once before, but I don’t think there’s any harm in doing it again: For my money, the only real way Fremental, er, uh, Fremantle can greatly improve its chances of ensuring the success of MILLION DOLLAR PASSWORD, would be to take on Bob Stewart (who created the original) as a [special] consultant. Like a lot of bloggers on this site (especially the “old skoolers” like myself), I am very leery of what Fremantle may do with this show…
speaking of Million Dollar Password I heard they are going to somehow combined the elements of Password, Password Plus and Super Password. I hope Fremantle gets that right and makes this game a lot of fun. I read those that people will try to have to risk there winnings if they want to go for one million dollars I think they should do it like 21 main game like this
1st victory alphabetics is worth $50,000
2nd victory alphabetics is worth $100,000
3rd victory alphabetics is worth $250,000
4th victory alphabetics is worth $500,000
5th victory alphabetics is worth $1,000,000
total from alphabetics $1,850,000 plus whatever won in the main game.
Points well taken, Intelligentfan777: UK’s Millionaire a shadow of its former self; Winning Lines’ knockout game (2nd round) not that bad, actually (thought the time slot was 8PM Friday, maybe it got swtiched); was unfortunate enough to catch a split episode of Joe P’s TPIR on YouTube (how did he ever get into TV anyway?), Vernon Kay did a respectable job on Family Fortunes (Feud), and might do well here given the chance.
Australia still holds its own with two great exports to the world: Deal or No Deal (very successful still), and Temptation (definitely trashed by Fremantle US from the classic Sale of the Century into a complete waste).
To answer my previous question: I’d bring back The Big Showdown (with the pot raised to $50K on free roll and $10K on time rolls), Split Second (with the original five-car endgame), and “Whew!” (with no real changes except the lifting of the $25K ceiling CBS had in the 70s).
Oh, and maybe Scrabble, too (if Chuck’s not available, I’ll do it)…
To MikeSant318: Big Showdown and Split Second (and IMHO Three on a Match) are some real gems.
Anyway, I’m still going to watch Po10 until it’s pulled, mainly because the only way you’re gonna see a million dollar win is if NBC spoils it, and until the real competition starts on Idol, it’s just a circus.
I am now 100% convinced that network executives have not the aptitude to handle game shows.
“POWER OF 10’s yanking from the airwaves almost reminds me of the way NBC f****d over TWENTY ONE in 2000.”
The original 1950’s version of 21 was part of the quiz show scandals. So, I personally think that the 21 revival was “f****d over” from the start. Because people today associate that show with rigged game shows, and stuff…
The $64,000 question would be qreat revived show. You could have a $500,000-$1,000,000.
$1,000
$2,000
$4,000
$8,000
$16,000 (guranteed)
$32,000
$64,000
$128,000
$256,000
$512,000
$1,024,000
You know like Bullsyes Pilot, speaking of which Bullseye would be great to be revived with a $100,000 grand prize (or $50,000)