I personally found this weekend's MDS to be one of the most exciting yet. Sure, they sort of picked an "excuse" to try to give away a Millon Dollars (I mean.. Voting Awareness? I'm getting a "We need reasons to crank out more of these ratings-getters" vibe here)
I thought all the signs in the audience.. ("Vote Against Double Overbids"... "Vote No on El Cheapo") were rather clever. I do know I'd be pretty peeved if some guy in front of me was waving a sign in my face while the show was starting.
The biggest change I noticed.. and I haven't figured out yet why... was that with the (awesome) red, white, and blue curtains (don't know that if it was the curtains that did it or what) the studio looked a LOT bigger. Plus, they started instituting newer angles that I thought were kinda cool ala an aerial camera used while showing the Vette in Lucky 7 and when Bob pointed out the $1,000 sign in It's In The Bag. I was hoping to see it used during the big wheel, but they stuck with their new "start high and move downward as the wheel slows down" camera shot.
Also if I'm not mistaken, some new lights looked like they were added, installed above the audience (maybe just not seen in daytime) in all colors. Sort of a cool update from the lights used in the 80s TPiR Specials it seemed, in a way. Spotlights aplenty, too.
Although the million wasn't won again (And that chick that spun the wheel at the end could really have put more effort into it) I thought that the show wasn't really a waste of my time.
Does anyone else think that the show would survive on the name "Price is Right Million Dollar Spectacular" for just no specified reason at all? AKA no "PiRMDS Saluting...(insert cause/group here)". Do they always have to have a reason to give away the big bucks?
Then again, the "PiRMDS Saluting the Increase in CBS Ratings" doesn't have a particular ring to it.