Price After Bob?

[Seth Thrasher]

Personally, I say the show gets 1 year, tops.   Even if the host is great, the change will be too sudden for for most viewers, they'll tune away, and that'll be that.  Then, it may come back in a few years in SYN.

[FosterGray82]

[quote name=\'Seth Thrasher\' date=\'Jun 16 2003, 02:13 PM\']Personally, I say the show gets 1 year, tops.   Even if the host is great, the change will be too sudden for for most viewers, they'll tune away, and that'll be that.  Then, it may come back in a few years in SYN.[/quote]
Even on the new board, we're not safe from this topic! :-)

All jokes aside, in 104 posts, I never threw in my two shiny Lincolns. Here's a nickel, keep the change. :-P

No matter what is done, no one's gonna be satisfied:

If you get a new host, you piss off the longtime viewers who've watched since September 4, 1972, and lose some audience members. However, you might be able to keep some viewers, and it'll be like when Leno replaced Carson, Carson replaced whoever, and so on down the line.

However, what I think would be a decent start would be what's done with Peanuts now. Simply, air older eps. of the show, just like older Peanuts strips run in the paper. Of course, this would upset anyone who would feel that the show must go on.

[clemon79]

We are easily past the point now where Alex Trebek has hosted Jeopardy longer than Art Fleming has.

Get my point?

[Casey Buck]

[quote name=\'FosterGray82\' date=\'Jun 16 2003, 12:25 PM\']However, what I think would be a decent start would be what's done with Peanuts now. Simply, air older eps. of the show, just like older Peanuts strips run in the paper. Of course, this would upset anyone who would feel that the show must go on.[/quote]

I think that this is a great idea for 3 reasons:

1. There would be no risk of TPiR failing because of a new host

2. CBS wouldn't have to cancel TPiR outright if they choose this option (and believe me, they would try to milk TPiR for all it's worth if Barker leaves.)

3. We will never have to complain about GSN not showing TPiR anymore!

[FosterGray82]

[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Jun 16 2003, 02:35 PM\'] We are easily past the point now where Alex Trebek has hosted Jeopardy longer than Art Fleming has.

Get my point? [/quote]
 I do get your point, and as much of an institution we can say Fleming was, he had 12 combined years on Jeopardy compared to Barker's 31.  And if I'm not mistaken, wasn't there a lot of objection when Trebek took over as host of J! as well?

I know that before Barker, there was Cullen, but 9 times out of 10, you ask someone what they think of when you say \"host of The Price is Right,\" they will probably say Bob Barker, and ask \"Bill who?\"  He has basically become synonomous with Price, as has been proven with the Kennedy and Davidson versions, both lasting one season, and the latter being cancelled mid-season.  I can't say Dennis James, as the syndie run premiered the same time as Bob's (one week apart IIRC).

Unless, you were replying to Seth, then I'll just step into the drop zone. :-)

[gsn1hiroland]

TPiR will never get old....it is part of America this show. It is the 60 Minutes of Daytime TV! 60 Minutes has had many people from Andy Rooney to Meredith Viera! There have been 4 hosts of TPiR in the last 31 years. I do not see how it will be cancelled. I think that if they pick out the right host, TPiR would be strong! I would have it between Bob Eubanks for temporary until they have the best host picked out.

[DjohnsonCB]

My feeling is that, as long as CBS is going to do nighttime $1,000,000 versions of the show on an occasional basis, they should retain Bob for these, but if he's not up to doing the daily version as well, try a new host there only.  It would give viewers a chance to try and warm up to another host while retaining Bob--with a lightened work load--at the same time.

Unfortunately, what haunts this proposition is the inescapable fact that Let's Make A Deal, for all the times they tried to revive it after the original show died, never worked without Monty Hall being there on camera.

[Yahtzee72]

[quote name=\'DjohnsonCB\' date=\'Jun 16 2003, 04:21 PM\'] Unfortunately, what haunts this proposition is the inescapable fact that Let's Make A Deal, for all the times they tried to revive it after the original show died, never worked without Monty Hall being there on camera. [/quote]
Well, you gotta remember that Monty hosted the horribly cheap 1980 version, but factors out of his hands killed it.

I thought Geoff did a good job when he filled in on LMAD84. He could have been a good permanent host. (Wouldn't it be great if he somehow found this board and posted here like the old days of ATGS?)

Bob Hilton was okay. I never really saw too much of his version.

Mark DeCarlo, on the other hand, one show was too much.

Billy Bush's version might have worked if NBC hadn't stuck it against AI. Any word on the two \"lost\" eps, or are they going to stay that way?


George

[GS Warehouse]

[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Jun 16 2003, 02:35 PM\'] We are easily past the point now where Alex Trebek has hosted Jeopardy longer than Art Fleming has.

Get my point? [/quote]
Mr. Lemon's right.  The right guy is out there; CBS just needs to find him.  Doug Davidson?  Likely, because he's already on CBS's payroll and TNPiR94's failure wasn't his fault.  Todd Newton?  If it's him, it's because of his youth.  At 33, he's the youngest current national game show host (unless you count talent shows, then it's Joey from N*Sync fame and Fame fame).

Of course, Bob's going to outlive all of us anyway just to make this whole thread moot. :-)

[EmiOfBrie]

I still think Peter Tomarken would be the ideal choice to replace Bob....

[Grant78898]

[quote name=\'FosterGray82\' date=\'Jun 16 2003, 02:25 PM\'] However, what I think would be a decent start would be what's done with Peanuts now. Simply, air older eps. of the show, just like older Peanuts strips run in the paper. Of course, this would upset anyone who would feel that the show must go on. [/quote]
 Well, I read that one of the reasons 'Price' can't be shown on GSN is because of 'former talent', so I'd think that would be the same for any network. I don't think we'll see classic eps for a very long time...

I also think Peter Tomarken would be a great replacement.

[Jimmy Owen]

This is one topic that never gets old.  Bob should be able to be there as long as he wants and perhaps the show should end when he wants it to. I don't think he is interested in grooming a protege. Then after the six months CBS tries the talk show with Debbie Mattopopodopolis or whomever, they should bring back TPIR with David Hasselhoff as host.  I had suggested Ryan Seacrest before, but he seems to have a full plate for the the next few years.

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'Grant78898\' date=\'Jun 17 2003, 07:30 AM\'] Well, I read that one of the reasons 'Price' can't be shown on GSN is because of 'former talent', so I'd think that would be the same for any network.
 [/quote]
 I don't buy it. If that were the case you NEVER would have seen Price on GSN, since the whole thing with Parkinson went down before GSN even existed.

The reason you don't see Price on GSN is simple, really, really simple: money. Fremantle is asking more then GSN is willing/able to pay. And Fremantle can do that 'cuz they know that GSN getting Price back would instantly make it the lynchpin of their schedule, especially with the renewed mainstream popularity of the show in prime time.

I also think Peter Tomarken would be a great replacement.

What a shock. (Not that I'm necessarily disagreeing.)

[Grant78898]

[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Jun 17 2003, 10:21 AM\'] The reason you don't see Price on GSN is simple, really, really simple: money. Fremantle is asking more then GSN is willing/able to pay. And Fremantle can do that 'cuz they know that GSN getting Price back would instantly make it the lynchpin of their schedule, especially with the renewed mainstream popularity of the show in prime time.

 [/quote]
 \"TheRicker\" (an admin on the GSN boards), was the one that said it was because of 'former talent', he also said it was the $$ issue, too.

[cmjb13]

Be glad Price isn't on GSN.

They would run the same episodes over and over again.

Not to mention the speed-ups.