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Drew Carey/ TPIR

By the way...have you heard about the new Australian version of TPIR? A few episodes are on YouTube, but the execution is nothing to sneeze at. The gameplay almost reeks the 1994 nighttime version, the prize budget is rather paltry, and the main sponsor is Big W (aka Wal-Mart Down Under). (A Current Affair story on this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YRu2h2xXG0)

As for foreign cars? I think they wasted no time bringing those back once Drew took over.
 
Not being a regular viewer of TPIR, I wonder if they've brought
back--or will bring back--furs as prizes; remember that Barker
banned them since the making of fur coats, etc., in his mind
constituted cruelty to animals.
 
bpatrick said:
Not being a regular viewer of TPIR, I wonder if they've brought
back--or will bring back--furs as prizes; remember that Barker
banned them since the making of fur coats, etc., in his mind
constituted cruelty to animals.
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Won't happen. It wasn't just Bob. I seem to recall that the last game show to offer furs was Wheel of Fortune---in 1985.

cd
 
"Won't happen. It wasn't just Bob."

Won't happen for another reason--Drew Carey agrees with a lot of Bob Barker's pet causes (no pun intended)--he also is active against animal cruelty.
 
Wow, that Aussie TPIR is dire. Not just compared to the US version, but to the previous Australian version. Most of their prizes come from a website that is roughly the Aussie equivalent of Big Lots? Even the music sucks.
As for the US version, hard to believe it's been on 40 years already.
George Gray is the announcer now? The guy who was inexplicably tapped to host the syndicated version of "The Weakest Link"? Face it, that show was built around Anne Robinson's dominatrix personality.
 
I liked the syndicated version of "The Weakest Link" more than the network version from NBC due to its short lengths of time and host, who was very enjoyable. I cannot speak about his announcing on "The Price is Right" since I refuse to watch the program any more (Rich Fields, the previous announcer, was fired after I stopped watching the program intentionally in 2009. I never had a problem with his announcing).
 
Mario-500 said:
(Rich Fields, the previous announcer, was fired after I stopped watching the program intentionally in 2009. I never had a problem with his announcing).
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Rich wasn't fired; he was voluntarily let go and has since returned to his pre-TPIR job: Weathercaster (this time at KCBS/KCAL).
 
johnnya2k6 said:
whatever happened to Yolanda Bowersley (you know, the lady who gave more than an eyeful when she came on down)?
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She got old and they hang too low now for anyone to care. ::) ;D
 
I found George Gray to very amiable despite his putdowns on syndicated
"Weakest Link" (like Groucho he always made them seem to be all in fun).
Anne Robinson is someone who, if she had been a man, I'd be tempted to punch out.
I will give her credit, though, for making it acceptable for women to host game shows;
without her there might not be Meredith Vieira hosting "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire"
or Sherri Shepard hosting "The Newlywed Game" on GSN.

Maybe it's just my imagination, but I get the feeling British viewers like emcees who
put their contestants down. Chris Tarrant, they tell me, does it on the British version
of "Millionaire," Anne Robinson did it, Nigel Lythgoe on "The Enemy Within" was another,
and Richard Dawson (R.I.P.) used the same attitude on "Family Feud" (making it OK for
American hosts to do it). I didn't notice it so much with Vernon Kay on "Million Dollar
Mind Game" last fall, but I do think British hosts tend to speak their minds where most
American hosts would consider insults to be a breach of etiquette.

OTOH, while I think Gray's "Weakest Link" was a victim of general resistance to daytime
game shows ("TPIR" notwithstanding), Robinson's was the victim of too many celebrities-
playing-for-charity shows. Viewers like to watch ordinary people playing for themselves;
playing for charity just doesn't, for most people, carry the same excitement.
 
You have a point - seems the Brits like their hosts on the rude side (viz: Simon Cowell, Graham Norton, and perhaps Gordon Ramsay). When "The Weakest Link" came to the US, the idea of a game show host as adversary was a novelty, and though Anne Robinson reveled in being an absolute beeyotch, I don't recall any contestants being hurt or insulted by her act as they knew full well what they were getting into. Not to say it didn't happen, of course.
 
rnigma said:
You have a point - seems the Brits like their hosts on the rude side (viz: Simon Cowell, Graham Norton, and perhaps Gordon Ramsay).
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Anyone got theories as to why? Is it the water in the Thames?

If Robinson didn't sound so... snobbish (in promos), I might have watched TWL.

ixnay
 
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