[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'183977\' date=\'Apr 14 2008, 12:57 PM\']
[quote name=\'TheInquisitiveOne\' post=\'183974\' date=\'Apr 14 2008, 09:01 AM\']
I take it that you're happy with a nighttime PIR without the need for a $1,000,000 attachment?[/quote]
Yep. Worked just fine in '86. I was marginally ok with it being given out for a DSW or a Showcase Showdown bonus spin (and even then: really, do they not have enough confidence in the show to let it stand on its own?), but this crap with pasting it onto the pricing games in an UTTERLY haphazard fashion just so the Bandit_Bobby's of the world can get a chubby while they bounce up and down in their little chairs is just idiotic.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but didnt the 86' specials do miserably ratings wise?
I feel that maybe the network now has to feel that for a game show to succeed in Primetime it has to give out a Million Dollars because everyone else is too. Now of course I don't feel that's true, but an example of this is Singing Bee and Don't forget the Lyrics. IMHO, I think one of the major reasons why people didnt gravitate toward Bee is because the top prize was only $50,000. I say this only because I read that on a few other message boards. And with the current state of idiotic "style & cash over substance" in television today, should we really be surprised?