"$100,000 Pyramid" primetime this summer on ABC

[mmm111]

Ish. Not heinous punnery, but I've seen a few that I gave me no earthly idea what the items in the category would be.

Right, but there's a difference between the short-and-snappy titles where you only have three lines of twelve letters on the little plastic sheet, and the shaggy dog stories that would be smushed into eight point font on Win Ben Stein's Money. And there's a place for those set-ups--I don't think Pyramid is necessarily it.

I felt it was the classy puns like from the Bob Stuart days.  I wouldn't worry.  I'm not sure any category was longer than what you could fit on a plastic sheet anyway.

[Otm Shank]

First, forgive me for the metoo post, but I caught the morning taping on the last production day. I echo the sentiments above of really capturing the essence of the Clark Pyramid.

There was a tie in one of the front games, which had a new method of resolving the tie.

They also did two opens to the show: the first was for primetime, and the second was for a potential daytime pickup. It seems they are shooting more shows than were ordered, so they can choose the best ones to air in primetime. The remaining episodes could then be used for a new daytime game.

There was a rehearsal game for the second group of celebrities, and it was revealed that the contestant is encouraged to be the Winners Circle giver so that the fault for an illegal clue was on them. However, they said that it is still the contestant's choice.

[TimK2003]

They also did two opens to the show: the first was for primetime, and the second was for a potential daytime pickup. It seems they are shooting more shows than were ordered, so they can choose the best ones to air in primetime. The remaining episodes could then be used for a new daytime

Considering how seriously-good this show is soundng to be, the timing of Strahan's promotion to full-time at GMA and thus the ABC network exclusively now on weekdays (some of Live's affiliates are not ABC affils) , and the reported grumblings and constant changes of hosts at The View,  It sounds like Pyramid is strongly being considered as an ABC daytime addition or replacement. 

I like how this tide is starting to flow!!!

[golden-road]

They also did two opens to the show: the first was for primetime, and the second was for a potential daytime pickup.

On the fair assumption they both used the standard "This is The $100,000 Pyramid" line, could you describe the intros, or is that part of the nondisclosure?

[tpirfan28]

...and the reported grumblings and constant changes of hosts at The View,  It sounds like Pyramid is strongly being considered as an ABC daytime addition or replacement. 

Or a mid-season Millionaire replacement.

[Otm Shank]

It seemed like the standard intro, except, of course "from ABC Studios in New York City." It was very hard to hear, though.

The different opening was to change Michael's opening line to be more generic and not reference primetime.

[PYLdude]

...and the reported grumblings and constant changes of hosts at The View,  It sounds like Pyramid is strongly being considered as an ABC daytime addition or replacement. 

Or a mid-season Millionaire replacement.

What makes you think that?

[BrandonFG]

...and the reported grumblings and constant changes of hosts at The View,  It sounds like Pyramid is strongly being considered as an ABC daytime addition or replacement. 

Or a mid-season Millionaire replacement.

Different production companies, I believe. "Millionaire" is Disney, and I imagine "Pyramid" is still Sony. How is the former doing this season?

Would love to see another network daytime show. Without getting too excited, I like Tim's speculation quite a bit.

[golden-road]

Different production companies, I believe. "Millionaire" is Disney, and I imagine "Pyramid" is still Sony.

Actually, I think Sony has production rights due to buying 2WayTraffic, and Disney still has syndie rights.

[TimK2003]

...and the reported grumblings and constant changes of hosts at The View,  It sounds like Pyramid is strongly being considered as an ABC daytime addition or replacement. 

Or a mid-season Millionaire replacement.

Different production companies, I believe. "Millionaire" is Disney, and I imagine "Pyramid" is still Sony. How is the former doing this season?

Would love to see another network daytime show. Without getting too excited, I like Tim's speculation quite a bit.

By luring Strahan off of "Live w/ Kelly", the ABC network owns Michael outright pretty much during the week:

• This prevents most Strahan v Strahan programming in those markets where "Live w/ Kelly" does not air on an ABC affiliate and on a tape delay (10 AM instead of 9AM). There could still be a rare Strahan v Strahan conflict on Thanksgiving Day in parts of the country where NFL on Fox gets the early game.

• This would also prevent a potential Strahan-a-Thon on ABC where potentially you could have 4-1/2 hours of Michael across 3 shows in-a-row in markets where "Live..." is on an ABC affil at 9AM and if Pyramid aired at 10AM to go against LMAD in some markets.

• This would be a win-win for Strahan and ABC.  Should Pyramid get greenlit for a 13-week daytime trial and they get decent ratiings, the worst that would happen is that Michael stays with Pyramid, goes back to part-time on GMA, yet retains a full-time check from the network as he would still be seen 5-days-a-week.  Should a Daytime Pyramid bomb, no harm/no foul as Strahan still remains full-time on GMA.

I call this the Joe Garagiola Theory®   

[Thunder]

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They also did two opens to the show: the first was for primetime, and the second was for a potential daytime pickup. It seems they are shooting more shows than were ordered, so they can choose the best ones to air in primetime. The remaining episodes could then be used for a new daytime game.

...

If the "You don't get your money until your show airs." rule is in effect, that's just lovely to the players whose games are just sitting in a file server somewhere.

[PYLdude]

Different production companies, I believe. "Millionaire" is Disney, and I imagine "Pyramid" is still Sony.

Actually, I think Sony has production rights due to buying 2WayTraffic, and Disney still has syndie rights.

But doesn't Disney own Valleycrest? I know they're still involved.

[golden-road]

Different production companies, I believe. "Millionaire" is Disney, and I imagine "Pyramid" is still Sony.

Actually, I think Sony has production rights due to buying 2WayTraffic, and Disney still has syndie rights.

But doesn't Disney own Valleycrest? I know they're still involved.

You're right, they do. Mea Culpa.

[PYLdude]

Different production companies, I believe. "Millionaire" is Disney, and I imagine "Pyramid" is still Sony.

Actually, I think Sony has production rights due to buying 2WayTraffic, and Disney still has syndie rights.

But doesn't Disney own Valleycrest? I know they're still involved.

You're right, they do. Mea Culpa.

No issue here. Although Disney still does distribute so you had that much down.

More to the point, though, if they would be shopping Pyramid for syndication I'd guess it would be as a replacement for FABlife, no? Especially on the stations that didn't pick up RightThisMinute like the ABC O&O cluster did?

[golden-road]

More to the point, though, if they would be shopping Pyramid for syndication I'd guess it would be as a replacement for FABlife, no? Especially on the stations that didn't pick up RightThisMinute like the ABC O&O cluster did?

Most likely. Would be fun to see it on a daily basis again.