CBS Pulls “Power of 10″, Brings in Primetime “Price is Right”
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.
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)