CBS Daytime: “The Price is Right” and “Let’s Make A Deal” Updates for 2012
Yesterday CBS Daytime held a panel for the Television Critics Association where the stars of their various shows greeted critics and discussed what will be coming up this Fall season. Both Let’s Make A Deal and The Price is Right were represented by hosts Wayne Brady and Drew Carey. Pictures and videos of the cast discussing the upcoming seasons were released. Here’s a quick word on what to expect this September from each.
*The Price is Right has a few minor cosmetic changes coming for its 41st season. The iconic doors will be slightly revamped. The colored-square pattern on each will be touched up with silver borders to resemble the turntable area to the side of the set. The logos on the door are now also 3D, sticking off the wall, and able to light up. Looks really cool. The larger silver dollar signs between each door, celebrating the previous 40th season, stick around for the new shows. The only other note is that Price will continue using male models in a larger capacity for the 41st season. Daniel Goddard, who currently stars on CBS’s The Young and the Restless, took that role last season and appears to be back for much more this year. About time the show reached the 21st century. I really can’t see how anyone can have a complaint about male models. It’s a pretty insignificant matter. Here’s some pictures and a video of Drew announcing some of the news.
*Let’s Make A Deal enters its 4th season this Fall. The show is still taping and you can get tickets to be in the audience and play by clicking here. Wayne Brady was on-hand at the CBS Daytime meeting yesterday to announce one exciting feature. Coming this October, Publisher’s Clearing House will team with Deal for a special $20,000 a day giveaway. $100,000 will be up for grabs. The Price is Right did this last season with a Plinko week jackpot. It was one of the more exciting and entertaining things they’ve done in a while so I look forward to seeing what Deal does with this.
Photos courtesy CBS
Have to admit…The new doors look amazing! I’m normally not a fan of changing things that work, but damn! This is a nice change! Plus, as an aside, it still amazes me how big the set looks on TV but how small it looks in wide shots.
We would like to see some balloons and confetti to fall down on the set of the show everytime a contestant wins both showcases at the end of the show.
“I really can’t see how anyone can have a complaint about male models. It’s a pretty insignificant matter.”
Insignificant? Absolutely.
Historic? Certainly not.
“$ale of the Century” (the *really* great 1980s version; not the crummy “Temptation” hosted by Rossi) used male models throughout its six year run. Same can be said of its short-lived sister show “Time Machine”.
The “Morrealle” Temptation also used male models, FYI.
We don’t remember because that abomination was best forgotten.
Looks like “Sale of the Century” esque-models to me. A throwback to the 1980s.
I’ll confess I *vaguely* remember some lady in a glittery dress in an instant bargain; that was it. I quit watching that train wreck after a poorly worded question in a Knock-Off round was used.
Contestants were asked to identify which terms on the board were poker terms.
A selection of “seventh street” was ruled incorrect. “Seventh street” can applied to stud variations of poker — but not Texas Hold ‘Em.
As I recall, “Texas Hold ‘Em” was not uttered in the presentation of the question. Hence the poor wording and me canceling my season pass on the DVR.
Going back even further, recall G-T’s “Number Please?” from 1961. There was a gent on that show displaying some bamboo handle corn holders… and a grill. Don’t know how permanent he was, but the evidence of his just being there is on YouTube.
Fall Season? THE BEST CHOICE is Family Feud in HD!! Yeah!
You got thst right. And it also will air in PRIMETIME in the fall! Double Yeah!
I’ve always hated the TPiR set, but the changes actually make it look halfway decent.
You’ve mentioned this before, but only in passing. What exactly is wrong with the American version of The Price is Right that causes you to hate it so much?
Hm… The format’s fine and good fun (though I don’t like how you only get one shot in your life on contestant’s row) and I don’t really mind the music, but the rest of the show just feels horribly stuck. The set’s always seemed dull, yet tacky and tasteless at the same time, the game setups I was fine with until i saw the awesome French versions which are just bursting with creativity, the contestants are precisely the kind of obnoxiously, loud morons game show fans hate on any other show, and the only host I’ve like was Bill Cullen. I’ve never liked Barker except as a player on Tattletales, and Drew’s always seems rather disinterested, which I didn’t get from him watching The Power of 10, and I liked him on that.
btw, they have canged the rules, you can be on the show once every 10 years, whether you get on stage or not.
Better, but still. I’d rather the last person called didn’t have to wait just because the producer’s didn’t like them as much as shouty person #265,969,242
I’ve seen the French version, and everything just seems gimmicky. Punch-A-Bunch with actual boxing gloves? Secret “X” with women revealing t-shirts? Money Game on an actual car split into thirds? Just too much for me. The American version used to update the props fairly regularly, but sometime during the 90s Barker and Dobkowitz stopped thinking of it as a TV show and started thinking of it as an institution, they started treating it like a museum. We’ve had the same One Away prop going on 30 years, for instance. Money Game dates back 20 years plus. They and the sycophant Roadies got it into their heads that the appeal in the show is the fact that it doesn’t change, so they didn’t allow it. As a result, many props look bad in high-definition as their scratches and scuffs are present for the world to see.
Can we expect any set changes to Let’s Make A Deal like last season and the one before?
I herd that set changes for LMAD were a coyne toss at this point. Sorry, I couldn’t pass that chance up. Besides we all love Tiffany Coyne.
I’ll wonder if we ever going to see some of the Judge Tiffany highlights on the E! Cable TV series, The Soup.
Five more years of Drew. His contract is renewed thru 2017
I can only handle Drew in small doces.
Great news in my opinion! Forever Alone
Really, more Daniel Goddard. Somebody should tell him that waving to the cameras is not modeling. It’s his only move and it looks like crap.
I would love to see Drew Carey to get shrunk down to a pocket size during a showcase showdown segment of a special Halloween show where the 1957 movie The Incredible Shrinking Man is recreated, simply titled The Incredible Shrinking Drew Carey. Make the Race Game more exciting by increasing the time from 45 to 60 seconds along with a Pyramid clock sound effect in the game, plus a contestant wins a $500 bonus along with the four prizes if the contestant places the tags correctly in one crack. I even would like to see a mix up theme for both CBS game shows and The Talk, where Wayne Brady takes over Price, Drew takes over Deal and the models of Price Is Right and Let’s Make A Deal model Tiffany Coyne taking over The Talk on April 1, 2013.
“I would love to see Drew Carey to get shrunk down to a pocket size during a showcase showdown segment of a special Halloween show…”
Trouble is, by the second Showdown he wouldn’t be able to reset the wheel. And then, he can’t reach the cards to announce the Showcase Round winner, either.
George: “Look out, Amber. Don’t step on the (squash!) … host. Ummmm…uhhhhhh…see you tomorrow, folks.”
Obviously, “The Incredible Shrinking Price” is not in the cards, but I can’t wait to see what they’ve got up their sleeves this year. The Halloween shows are generally good.
Wait, he said during “A” Showdown. Oh, that’s different. Never mind.
Nice doors, but I not too sure about the logo. It look too small, but well see how it goes when the new season premiere next month.
And also, will LMAD goes HD this season? All game shows has gong HD, including Family Feud, which will start next season.
The gang at G-R.net just started spinning. CHANGE! Oh, no! We’re all going to die!
At least they are doing changes gradually. Imagine if all this was done when Drew started? Those at G-R would have simultaneously exploded.
I like what they are doing. Getting the show up to the modern era, alongside Jeopardy! and Wheel.
Well what a surprise. Those superfreaks need to get a hold of themselves. It’s as if they’re all playing Big Brother.
Might as well sign my posts over and over with Cyclone Cyclone Cyclone.
Cyclone xD
Indeed…but I think you must write off 96% of the kvetching at Golden Road. Most there just simply will not accept the fact that it isn’t 1983 anymore, and that Bob Barker retired.
I’m more concerned about that sad day when Bob passes…I’m not sure they can handle it over there.
I’ve never really understood the complaints…they’ve taken a 40 year old incarnation of a solid show and tried to keep it fresh. It’s basically the same dang show they’ve been doing for decades. Some things work, and some don’t. It’s almost as if they want the show to fall into Jay Leno-bland and safe land.
I will be far more sad if Betty White leaves us than I ever would be for Barker, as she doesn’t represent who she is in the public eye. Dick Clark and Richard Dawson’s deaths hit me harder this year, as they were people who actually cared about the contestants AND the staff who worked on their shows, and in Richard’s case, he made good with everyone by the time he left. A far better legacy to leave behind, I’d say!
That is MIS represent.
Let me say that most of the complaining over at G-R has nothing to do with Bob not being there. Most of the complaints are over the show has been produced and most has to do with not getting over the loss of Roger Dobkowitz.
Believe me, I think they can handle when Bob passes. Maybe then there will be a more realistic chance at seeing fur episodes.
Geez, they are just stuck in the 20th Century. I genuinely tried my hardest to have a decent TPiR conversation, two replies later there are disagreements.
Love [insert sarcasm],
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LMAD and Feud are the last two game shows to go HD. Both long overdue. As for my suggested changes in Price I would like to see updated and modified pricing games Lucky 7, Pathfinder, and Three Strike to use computer monitors for the displays just like Temptation. Also, retire all eggcrate displays, and make them all LED displays just like Any Number.
I’d say the eggcrate font should stay even with LCD switches.
The only problem their might be is that they would need some very large screens, especially with Lucky 7. And if people are still going to be driving into doors during Lucky 7, maybe it’s best they leave that alone. lol
I’m guessing that the “LED” displays on the new Any Number board are in fact monitors that use an LED-looking font…just like on contestant’s row. I doubt that we’ll see them use anything but monitors as they upgrade games going forward.
I hope Lets Make a Deal brings back the Super Deal. It definitely adds excitement to the show knowing that someone could leave with $50,000 and the Big Deal.
I hope they do not heavily rely on male models on Price, or else that could really turn the viewers off…
“I really can’t see how anyone can have a complaint about male models. It’s a pretty insignificant matter.”
I agree and then I don’t. Models aren’t an insignificant matter. Maybe they were 40 years ago, since no one didn’t know how long the show would last. But after the show and Janice hit 15 years, and we hit the golden period with Janice, Holly, Dian, and even Kathleen, we began to get to know them more. Bob got them involved in the show. They were introduced to us. At that point, they became apart of the cast. And the cast of show isn’t insignificant.
That said, this isn’t as big of deal as some are making it out to be, but not insignificant.
Dian is still queen of the swimsuits, Holly is still the Godzilla of the prize demolition and the blooper mishaps, and Janice and Kathleen both retired on December 31, 2000 Y2K (The start of the new millennium).
Janice and Kathleen didn’t retire – they were both fired by Barker for testimony not in his favor in his defamation case against Holly Hallstrom – check out the case Barker vs. Hallstrom on the internet.
What date will the new season of “The Price Is Right” air???
Any chance “Deal” will finally make the move to HD?
I saw the new doors on the September 4th 40th anniversary show, the only new show in the middle of the summer repeats. The Price is Right logo is smaller on the doors than the big one they had in front of the doors the other 5 seasosns. The new updates are nice. I think that’s what we’ll see when the new season starts later this month.
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