This one was a bit shocking: CBS has announced that the new Embassy Row show The Power of 10 will be rushed to air this summer. The Drew Carey hosted show can be described more as Super Card Sharks than Super Family Feud. Contestants will have to predict the results to national surveys about lifestyles, behaviors, and opinions. Such questions are similar to “What percentage of married Americans said they were virgins the day they got married?” to “What percentage of American’s believe they are smarter than the president?” The contestants needs to guess correctly within a certain range. The first correct guess wins the player $1,000 and each next question multiplies that money by 10 although the range of error shortens for each question. The player can ask an audience or a friend but they must make the final decision (where have we heard this one before?). No air or tape dates have been set yet.

This show sounds interesting, but I have one major issue with it. The game is really insignificant until someone wins $100,000. No one is going to stop before they win $100,000 because the most you will risk before that is $10,000. No one’s going to risk $1,000,000 either. Will the promotion of the $10,000,000 be able to carry the show? Also I’ll now predict that we enter the game through the 0 in “10″ or the O in “Power”