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The "New" Price Is Right - Thoughts?

azumanga said:
formeraa said:
I actually liked Dennis James...he was a REAL game show host...not a fake made-up Ken doll guy.
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Furthermore -- not only was Dennis James a real game show host, he was the FIRST television game show host. He hosted television's first known game show, "Cash and Carry", for the DuMont network back in the late-1940s.
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WOW! I didn't realize that. Again, I liked Dennis James. I would be confused with the sheer number of games on the TPIR. Also, Dennis simply did not have as much practice as Bob with the games. I believe that the nighttime version was only once a week during the 70's; the daytime version aired every weekday.
 
I think I liked Dennis because he looked and acted like my Uncle Jerry. So I always felt like it was my uncle hosting the show. His personality made me feel comfortable. Isn't that a good enough reason to like the guy? LOL
 
Seems like ever since DREW CAREY took over,the music is harder to hear!! (It was louder when Bob was on) One thing i dislike! (Amoung many)
 
Any news on the ratings since Drew took over?

Have they fallen, risen, or stayed about the same?

It seems like they are having younger contestants than they did when Bob was on. (which I don't mind)

The one thing Drew has to remember is, when the contestant is talking, put the microphone in their face so we can hear them!

Mostly anything that has changed has grown on me, and I like it, but one of the opening shots. It looks like we are about to hit two of the studio lights, I don’t like that! (That would really stink, if Jib did actually hit one of the lights, it would be funny too)
 
I heard that Drew's ratings are slightly better than Barker's at the same time last year. It doesn't appear that he's lost anybody which is a good thing.
 
There are two changes I've noticed to the TPIR music:
1) On the opening theme, as Rich calls the contestants down, the piccolo seems to be more pronounced.
2) On the cue used when a contestant is called on stage from Contestant's Row, a drum line was added. This seems to hurt the flow of the show, because you can tell when the contestant is taking a long time to catch up to Drew.
 
Edd Kalehoff was asked to update the theme as well as a few other cues and make them Stereo. The old tracks from 1972 were all mono. Most of the music still is mono, but they are adding more new music this season which will be in Stereo.
 
notalkallstatic said:
Any news on the ratings since Drew took over?

Have they fallen, risen, or stayed about the same?
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According to the Atlanta dailies, WGCL is still slamming the others' noon news with TPIR as a lead-in, so I'd say it's still doing good, especially since this is the only news program on WGCL actually making ratings.

I think they did the right thing. They changed just enough to pull in new, younger fans with a new, younger host; but, they didn't change too much to piss off the die-hard fans to entice them to change the channel. Besides, at 11am, where's there to turn? What network's got anything better? Out of the majors, ABC's the only counter with The View. Fox has no daytime, and NBC is off the air at that time.
 
FloydB said:
NBC is off the air at that time.
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Although a handful of affiliates run Days of Our Lives against TPIR
 
NBC may not program directly, save for affiliates picking up Days or delaying the last hour of Today, etc., etc., etc., but that doesn't mean strong local or syndicated fare isn't serious competition.
 
Oh, I'm all for local programming. Radio and television has looked too much at the "bottom line" and not enough at the "big picture." Local production and programming might cost out the wazoo as opposed to syndicated programming, but how many news stations are the "cash cow" in many, if not all, markets? News costs a lot to produce because of the manpower required, but they almost always pay off. 11am is a good time for stations to run a locally produced program. I'd like to see some of the indies/Fox/MyNetwork/CW stations to produce their own late-night talk show. If they had it, it could make a major impact in the market right now since the majors are suffering from the writers strike.
 
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