[quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'182682\' date=\'Mar 27 2008, 02:49 PM\']I've had trouble watching since Barker was still there. Between Rich and that infernal audience whooping it's hard to watch/listen to. Note to Bart: the audience mics should be off, that's O-F-F, when Rich reads any kind of prize copy.[/quote]Truly? That would fix roughly 95% of the problems I have with the show at this point. Hearing the crowd boo for the mixed nuts because they're over $5.49 seems wrong.
From a business standpoint, you have to look at how much the show is making for CBS. Drew's reported $10 million salary doesn't help that cause at all. IMO $2 million would be a fair price. He's not that good.
Drew's performance notwithstanding, I'm all for Drew getting as much money as he can for the gig. Drew is worth whatever he can get.
[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'182697\' date=\'Mar 27 2008, 05:40 PM\']Yeah, I have to think that's a statistically insignificant number, though. I would wager it's mostly the dilution of television options, timeshifting, etc. that is the main culprit.[/quote]Has there ever been any measurement of the college dorm quotient in terms of how many people see TPIR that way? I don't put much stock in Nielsen numbers anyhow, but measuring viewership numbers in terms of sets doesn't make sense if there are twenty people watching that television.
[quote name=\'JasonA1\' post=\'182722\' date=\'Mar 28 2008, 08:50 AM\']Drew's lack of polish is getting to me a bit, although he's a hard guy to hate in any respect. The biggest gripe I have is the showcase reveal. It often comes down to mourning the loser's loss rather than congratulating the winner. They almost seem like an after-thought, and Drew sounds like he's giving a eulogy.[/quote]And it's doubly distracting after a Double Showcase Win. Let the winner have his or her time in the spotlight. Console the loser off camera while the winner runs over to look at the piano and spa from the showcase.
[quote name=\'Robert Hutchinson\' post=\'182748\' date=\'Mar 28 2008, 12:57 PM\'](I should mention that all of this doesn't mean I think that Drew Carey's work on the show merits an A+. He does have other habits that drive me up the wall, like saying someone's name 20 times in 3 seconds when he's trying to get their attention.)[/quote]True enough. Given a choice between Barker today or Carey today, I'll pick Carey every single time, and hope that Drew continues to improve.
[quote name=\'Card Shark\' post=\'182779\' date=\'Mar 29 2008, 05:32 AM\']So, this [sense of humor] may be a direction the show needs to go in. And I don't mean the kind of humor where Bob instructs a contestant playing the range game not to hit the button until ready because they can't start it again for 37 hours for the 9,000th time. Sure, funny maybe once, but certainly not more than that. The audience, I'm convinced gave him the obligatory giggle at that line. [/quote]And it's the same as laughing at a six-year-old who just told a knock-knock joke. Bob probably misinterpreted that reaction as "Hey, they like the gag! I'll do it every single time!"
My knock was he kept doing the same gags over and over again, crowing bogus firsts, or first in 28 years. You couldn't swing a dead cat without "That hasn't happened since 1976!" Do it once a month, or less, and you'll get a bigger pop than every day.
