[quote name=\'Don Howard\' post=\'212365\' date=\'Apr 7 2009, 08:20 AM\']Wasn't the big bundle of $$$ they awarded during future tapings (which wouldn't have to be paid out if the shows weren't televised) a factor in the program's swift removal from the schedule? Or was that simply a theory someone put out there?[/quote]
Mostly the latter, since that's not the sort of thing that's going to turn up in an official FOX press release.
I'm really not sure what to think of The Rich List. On the one hand, it is a Q&A which (for the most part, from what we've seen) requires actual knowledge about factual things rather than guessing about popular answers the way Family Feud does and the way Greed did far too often. If you're watching at home, you're shouting answers at the screen, and that's always a good thing.
On the other hand, there's just not that much game there. It's like Hot Potato with all the good stuff taken out, and how much good stuff was there in Hot Potato to begin with? And frankly, from what I've seen, the questions (I'm sorry, "lists") are generally far too easy for, say, a Jeopardy-caliber player. (Name fifteen vice presidents to win the top prize? Really? With no clock?) That makes me think that they're casting, Fifth Grader style, to avoid having good players play their game. I'm always going to have a problem with that.