15 Responses

1. Intelligentfan777

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   July 5th, 2008 at 9:25 pm

   MY SENTIMENTS EXACTLY!

   Thank you! Let me tell you something Cory, I was just as shocked as you, and every other TPIR fan out there about this announcement.

   BUT…….

   I took a step back and thought….”Hmmm, well, I guess this will be interesting. In the long run, I think TPIR will be A-OK.” I won’t go Chicken Little on something like this because it only makes you look like a complete and utter fool with no credibility. I mean, some of these people are friggin nuts! They have no idea what they’re talking about and they react just for the sake of getting their posts on blogs thinking everyone will read them and react the same way! Do you ever feel sometimes like you want to reach through cyberspace and strangle someone after reading their idiotic comments in a post? I know I do. This is just one of many instances.

   Anyway, love your site, and thanks again

2. GhostOfGSN'sPast

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   July 6th, 2008 at 4:58 am

   The problem is–many of us know what happens when “Dismantle Media” starts changing things “for the better” (see dictonary entry for MG’98 and CS’01)

3. Darren

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   July 6th, 2008 at 5:51 am

   *crosses fingers*

   No money ladder no money ladder no money ladder no money ladder no money ladder . . .

4. scott

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   July 6th, 2008 at 6:06 am

   drew carey is a stiff and a bore replace him get someome thats a people oerson

5. Chris lambert

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   July 6th, 2008 at 9:25 am

   Drew IS a people person, he’s just a little awkward about it.

   Are you trying to say Barker WAS a people person?!

   (Well, maybe people that blindly adore him. Staffers, however…)

6. Marc Power

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   July 6th, 2008 at 11:01 am

   well I am yet to read the blogs in question, this sounds like another case of game show super nerds, and this is coming from a guy who used to be somewhat of a super nerd, these are the kinds of people who have never been on a date, are probably never gonna get any and spend most of their time parked on the couch or in front of the computer with a 2L Coke and a big bag of lay’s. seriously, grow up, there is more to life than TPIR. besides the ratings have gone down on the show a smidge a change could be for the better. (though Fremantle’s track record says no) and don’t worry about Roger, he’s had a great, illustrious career,

7. jaymich1128

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   July 6th, 2008 at 11:12 am

   I agree that Roger has had a great career…and I wish him well. With that said, I also think Fremantle has had a horrible track record. While I am definitely willing to see what “changes” take place, I am a little nervous about it. TPIR is one of the few game shows that has not drastically changed its rules. I hope that doesn’t happen. If it does, you might as well call it something else.

8. Doug Morris

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   July 7th, 2008 at 8:07 am

   Through the deaths of Johnny Olson and Rod Roddy, partings of company with models (many of which weren’t pleasant — and maybe as unpleasant as Roger’s departure), Bob’s retirement and revelations of backstabbing and drama backstage (as documented by E! in a True Hollywood Story), we’re still coming on down.

   Shows that have been around for decades manage — somehow, someway — to go through changes. Take Meet The Press for example.

   MTP changed moderators often from the mid ’80s through the early ’90s. NBC turned to Tim Russert to help stop the bleeding in the ratings. He more than helped stop the bleeding. He made the show his own — and stayed with the program ’til his untimely death last month.

   Season 36 of TPiR was a season of change. Not only was there a change in host, there was also a change in policy over foreign-made cars, a rule change to “1/2 Off” and the models wore two-piece swimsuits for the first time in ages. Save for the host change, the other changes were, at best, tweaks.

   Season 37 is bound to bring more change — whether or not Roger was going to be on board. My hope is they’ll up the ante on the showcase showdown wheel (say $20,000 for a dollar on a bonus spin) and Punch-A-Bunch (20-grand here as a top prize would be nice, too). I still remember the fishbowl filled with $5000 in a playing of Temptation (the pricing game, not the lame $OTC) — so there’s hope the ante will be upped.

9. Alex

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   July 7th, 2008 at 8:34 am

   FROM CORY ANOTADO:
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   “And, lest we forget that the last major change to the Price is Right happened about 37 years ago when Bob Barker took the reigns of the show from Bill Cullen and Mark Goodson added these thing called “pricing games.””
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   QUOTED FOR TRUTH!!!

   Seriously. We all need to calm down and not freak out about any changes to the show unless they actually happen.

   I do agree that Roger’s firing was very devastating, and that it could have been handled better. I also hope that the situation gets resolved quickly. But if the fanb01z make “SRS BSNS” out of this issue (even going so far as to put it at a higher priority than, say, Iraq, Africa, the 2008 Olympics, the 2008 presidential election, or the oil crisis), if this starts getting violent (some people on Golden Road.net are entertaining the idea of boycotts and protests), and if this starts to become a war of “us v. them” (GRN v. Frematle), then whoever “wins” is going to be left with a broken shell of a website/game show. And we wouldn’t want that. ._.

   FROM DOUG MORRIS:
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   My hope is they’ll up the ante on the showcase showdown wheel (say $20,000 for a dollar on a bonus spin) and Punch-A-Bunch (20-grand here as a top prize would be nice, too). I still remember the fishbowl filled with $5000 in a playing of Temptation (the pricing game, not the lame $OTC) — so there’s hope the ante will be upped.
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   I’m personally holding out for the following update to the SCSD: $5,000 for $1, $10,000 for 5¢ or 15¢ in the bonus spin, $25,000 for $1 in the bonus spin.

   Also, Punch a Bunch has been played in Spectaculars for $25K…I’m hoping that becomes permanent. The money distribution should stay exactly the same as it is now, but the dollar values should be changed. Here’s what I have in mind: 10 $250, 10 $500, 10 $1,000, 10 $2,500 (with one each of those being a Second Chance card), 5 $5,000, 3, $10,000, and 2 $25,000. Doesn’t $250 sound like a much better consolation prize to you than the current $50? ^^ And $1,000 and $2,500 are much better mid-range values than the current $250 and $500. At least, IMO.

10. myke25

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    July 7th, 2008 at 9:52 am

    I hope some of the changes are simply cosmetic. The big wheel and several of the games just need a facelift, not necessarily rules changes…though I like the idea of some $25K games. A lot of the old game props clash against the new set colors.

    As for Drew, I think he’s starting to make the show his own. He’s looking more at ease, reminding me more of Bill Cullen than Bob Barker. He’s clearly having more fun with the contestants. He’s getting Rich Fields into things more. I love it when he pokes fun at the prizes…his excitment over a home donut maker is contagious.
    He’s getting the mechanics of the games down now. Remember, Barker just had a handful of pricing games to memorize in his first year…Drew had to know 35 or so of them off the bat…70 by the end of the season.
    Yeah, he still makes mistakes…so did Barker the last year or two of his run.

    But I think he’ll miss Roger. Drew clearly relied on him to keep him on track.

11. MrQuiz

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    July 7th, 2008 at 10:33 am

    To Ghost of GSN Past, you should add that God-awful revival of “Beat the Clock” (on PAX a few years ago) to your “dictionary entry.”

    I’m also a wee bit surprised that everyone seemed to forget the untimey sacking of longtime dierector, Paul Alter, who had also directed TPIR during the Bill Cullen era.

    And I’ll bet’cha the ranch, and everything on it, that one thing TPIR won’t mess with is “Contestants Row.” (They tried it once already, and it stiffed faster than you can say “Doug Davidson!”)

12. Marc Power

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    July 7th, 2008 at 10:44 am

    I agree, myke the main thing the show needs right now is cosmetic changes, I know this is gonna tick off the nostalgic fans but I really think the pull cards and mechanical devices on the pricing games, really make the show look old, I think they should be using monitors and such, it did well for wheel of fortune and Jeopardy despite early criticism, and yeah people jsut need to give Drew a chance he’s only been doing the show for 1 year, Bob had 36 years to master the game, and tPIR is a tough show to do because it’s like 70 games in one and you have to keep it moving. and I think Drew knows he hasn’t done the best but he makes up for it by interacting perfectly with Rich, the contestants and the models and I like how he’s honest about the prize: i.e. poking fun at the more inane prizes. rather than trying to sell them off as great.

    someone once said hosting TPIR is like riding a bike, well Drew’s still using the training wheels right now, we have to expect him to fall off a couple of times. remmeber he did Power of 10 for a while too so that had to have made it tougher.

13. GrahamGB

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    July 7th, 2008 at 3:28 pm

    Just curious, can someone fill me in on the change over foreign-made cars and the rule change in 1/2 Off?

14. myke25

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    July 7th, 2008 at 4:01 pm

    I’m sure someone will correct me if I’m wrong, but I think the rules change in 1/2 Off was adding the $500 for every correct guess in the merchandise portion of the game. I don’t remember that being there in the beginning.
    But you know, the more I think of changes, the more I think of them being in the realm of bigger cash prizes to keep up with the cost of cars. The days of folks doing “The Pyramid Dance” when they win $10,000 on a show are mostly over. They don’t really get too stoked about it on Password. Heck, $10K is considered a bad day on Deal or No Deal!

    They need to beef up the cash prizes on a few of their games, still make them difficult to win…but not TOO difficult.
    A $25K bonus spin on the wheel would be good…with $10K for the green sections.
    A $20K Grand Game seems to work at night…but please update that butt-ugly scoring display!
    $50K Plinko works alright, but increase some of the side amounts to a minimum of $500.
    Someone mentioned a $25K Punchboard…that would be cool.

    And maybe some more wacky, but not cheap, prizes on contestant’s row. I watched an episode of the Cullen TPIR online the other day where they offered a side of beef and a freezer to put it in. Someone else won a walk-on part in a movie as a bonus. Drew would do a great job playing off some unusual prizes.

    I’m usually not a big fan of increasing prizes just for the sake of increasing them…especially if the game is the main thing…but sometimes you just have to keep up with inflation. Ask Bob Stewart.

15. HomerJaySimpson

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    July 7th, 2008 at 7:37 pm

    Ah yes, someone had to invoke the ‘94 Price as the proof point that tinkering with the mothership daytime show is doomed. Problem is, Price ‘94 suffered from some (not all, but many) God-awful time period competition (Oprah…Wheel…Jeopardy: they mowed down everything people threw at them), a less-than-committed distributor and the oversaturation factor. Daytime and nighttime concurrent runs were pretty much done by that point for a reason.

    There are other factors to what happened in 94 than no items up for bids or the black floor.