Author Topic: TPiR Season 37 changes (Read 72131 times)

BrandonFG · « **Reply #45 on:** July 24, 2008, 03:44:42 PM »

[quote name=\'JayDLewis\' post=\'191961\' date=\'Jul 24 2008, 01:24 PM\']
Playing Devil's Advocate...suppose, for a moment, they want someone who will just be the host and do what they're told without putting their foot down over drastic changes.
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And a host who will gladly do the job for a fraction of the price, say $3-4 mil? Don't know who, but just sayin'.

Host makes money and gets notoriety, CBS saves over 50% of Drew's salary. Win-win, right? Or am I on that stuff that Mr. Mackey warned us about?

Kevin Prather · « **Reply #46 on:** July 24, 2008, 04:10:03 PM »

[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'191986\' date=\'Jul 24 2008, 12:44 PM\']
And a host who will gladly do the job for a fraction of the price, say $3-4 mil? Don't know who, but just sayin'.
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I know there are people here raising their hands...

Don Howard · « **Reply #47 on:** July 24, 2008, 04:11:37 PM »

[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'191986\' date=\'Jul 24 2008, 03:44 PM\']
And a host who will gladly do the job for a fraction of the price, say $3-4 mil? Don't know who, but just sayin'. Host makes money and gets notoriety, CBS saves over 50% of Drew's salary. Win-win, right? [/quote]
And I'm certain there's another Brady Bunch brother who'd like to take a crack at emceeing.
I'm for Barry Williams. And he can sing! It'll be like Bert Parks used to do.
Certainly, we can expect a Johnny Bravo showcase.

PYLdude · « **Reply #48 on:** July 24, 2008, 04:20:24 PM »

[quote name=\'Don Howard\' post=\'191991\' date=\'Jul 24 2008, 03:11 PM\']
[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'191986\' date=\'Jul 24 2008, 03:44 PM\']
And a host who will gladly do the job for a fraction of the price, say $3-4 mil? Don't know who, but just sayin'. Host makes money and gets notoriety, CBS saves over 50% of Drew's salary. Win-win, right? [/quote]
And I'm certain there's another Brady Bunch brother who'd like to take a crack at emceeing.
I'm for Barry Williams. And he can sing! It'll be like Bert Parks used to do.
Certainly, we can expect a Johnny Bravo showcase.
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http://www.itspakistan.net/fun/msnpics/johny_bravo.jpg

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JayDLewis · « **Reply #49 on:** July 24, 2008, 04:56:03 PM »

Drew's (supposed) 8-figure salary comes up quite a bit. I wonder how much that number has changed, if at all, now that Po10 is kaput?

DrJWJustice · « **Reply #50 on:** July 24, 2008, 08:17:27 PM »

[quote name=\'tpirfan28\' post=\'191938\' date=\'Jul 24 2008, 10:35 AM\']
1, 2, and 3 all seem like logical options for the show (for some reason, #3 sounds like a deal so they could use 33 for a good deal)...but I would love to know what alternate universe he lives in if #4 is even a remote possibility.
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(Sry, Chris, but I needed to chime in on this one.)

Ditto on #4 -- come 11 AM Eastern, it's ALWAYS been on all the TVs in the student union wherever I've worked or gone to school. How else does he explain all those 20-somethings showing up in droves for tapings? Barker understood why perfectly.

He also needs to re-think his time table on Drew being re-upped/the show being cancelled. He cited Leno above, and he was (I hate to say it) right about that. Even then, Leno's show still has strong overtones of Carson. He's also (I hate to say it again) right about Drew doing Barker's show in Season 36. Drew should be moving into his own in Season 37. I did find that his comfort level improved markedly as the season went on. I also remember posting in his earliest days that I was smiling at TPiR like I hadn't for years at the end of Barker's reign. Drew had/has work to do, but it's not nearly as much as The Perf thinks.

Overall, try again, Perfesser.

Don Howard · « **Reply #51 on:** July 24, 2008, 08:37:35 PM »

[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'191945\' date=\'Jul 24 2008, 11:42 AM\']
/and I know he's reading this
//Hi, Steve!
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Stosh, darling baby sweetheart. Garry Moore died in 1993; not 1973.
Alan Kalter intro'd Garry Moore during his pass-the-baton one-shot in 1977 on To Tell The Truth; not Bill Wendell.
Okay? Okay!

DrJWJustice · « **Reply #52 on:** July 24, 2008, 08:53:09 PM »

[quote name=\'Don Howard\' post=\'192020\' date=\'Jul 24 2008, 07:37 PM\']
Stosh, darling baby sweetheart. Garry Moore died in 1993; not 1973.
Alan Kalter intro'd Garry Moore during his pass-the-baton one-shot in 1977 on To Tell The Truth; not Bill Wendell.
Okay? Okay!
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Don't confuse him more than he already is :-D

//ObGameShows: Joe Garagiola hosted To Tell The Truth after Garry Moore.

Casey Buck · « **Reply #53 on:** July 26, 2008, 01:16:18 AM »

ClockGameJohn at golden-road.net announced that two pricing games will have rule changes starting next season:

-Punch a Bunch will have its top prize raised to $25,000 (with 1 $25,000 slip and 1 $10,000 slip; everything else remains the same).

John mentions further down in the thread that Roger was proposing on having a different (and better, IMO) take on increasing Punch-a-Bunch's top prize: getting rid of the $50, $250 slips, and $10,000 slips, then adding a bunch of $5,000 slips, making the decision to quit or go for $20,000 after getting the $5,000 more exciting.

-Check Game will have its win range changed from $5,000-$6,000 to $7,000-$8,000.

Kevin Prather · « **Reply #54 on:** July 26, 2008, 04:15:08 AM »

[quote name=\'PYLdude\' post=\'192130\' date=\'Jul 26 2008, 12:06 AM\']
How did the margin of error not change? Higher starting value means that the contestant can write a bigger yet still reasonable check without worry of going over, no?

Therefore, more fallback and a greater margin of error.
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I don't see where you're making the jump to a greater margin of error. The contestant can shoot for higher winnings and still have a chance, yes. But the margin of error is still $1,000.

Craig Karlberg · « **Reply #55 on:** July 26, 2008, 04:30:42 AM »

In the $5K-$6K range, a player that writes a check for $2,500 meant the prize can be from $2,500-$3,500. With the new range($7K-$8K), that same $2,500 check may now yield a price anywhere from $4,500-$5,500 Of course if the prize is still say anywhere from $3K-$4K, then in order to meet that new range, the check has to be written for $4K. Whether higher value prizes will be offered or players writting checks for higher values under the new range will remain to be seen once Season 37 starts. It doesn't matter how you set the range values, the range will still be +/-$1K

As for Punch-A-Bunch, it's nice to see the top prize raised to $25K. IIRC, one of the MDSs my've offered that prize.

Chelsea Thrasher · « **Reply #56 on:** July 26, 2008, 05:35:17 AM »

Avoiding the stuff about margins of errors just for a half of a second - let's approach another aspect. This really doesn't have thing one to do with writing larger checks - the checks will still hover in the $2500 range, give or take ~$500 on either side. Just as they have since they upped things in 1989.

The update to the game is designed, so I'm told anyway, to offer more expensive prizes. A $3000 prize in 2008 just isn't what it was in 1989, the last time they upped the range. $3,000 in 1989 money, per the inflation calculator, was worth about $5,200 in 2007 - the last year available. An inflation of $2,200 and an increase in the range by roughly the same amount - that's not coincidence. It's just accounting for 20 years of inflation.

clemon79 · « **Reply #57 on:** July 26, 2008, 05:54:17 AM »

[quote name=\'PYLdude\' post=\'192132\' date=\'Jul 26 2008, 12:11 AM\']
I'm done with this argument. It's become kinda obvious that I'm not going to convince you to see it another way.[/quote]
That's correct. Because everyone else would prefer to see it the correct way.

Look, the writing of the check in Check Game? Window dressing. Utter chrome. The actual goal of Check Game is this: Guess the price of a prize within $1,000 without going over. That doesn't change whether the range is $5,000 to $6,000 or $1,000,000 to $1,001,000.

Once you've made your guess, the rest of it is third-grade math, no more, no less.

/gee, this new leaf tastes teriffic!

TheLastResort · « **Reply #58 on:** July 26, 2008, 08:50:05 AM »

If they're writing bigger checks now, does that mean they'll have to increase the size of the Check Game prop?

Joe Mello · « **Reply #59 on:** July 26, 2008, 11:23:39 AM »

[quote name=\'Casey Buck\' post=\'192122\' date=\'Jul 26 2008, 01:16 AM\']-Punch a Bunch will have its top prize raised to $25,000 (with 1 $25,000 slip and 1 $10,000 slip; everything else remains the same).

John mentions further down in the thread that Roger was proposing on having a different (and better, IMO) take on increasing Punch-a-Bunch's top prize: getting rid of the $50, $250 slips, and $10,000 slips, then adding a bunch of $5,000 slips, making the decision to quit or go for $20,000 after getting the $5,000 more exciting.
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This is no surprise to me. None of the games for the past 36 seasons had you risk more than 4-figures at any time, and I wouldn't be unhappy if I kept it that way. (Although, if someone is bananas enough to risk $10K, it will be interesting to watch....hopefully)

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If they're writing bigger checks now, does that mean they'll have to increase the size of the Check Game prop?

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