I've gotten several season through Amazon...others through FYE..and other places. I believe season 6 has commentary with producers, writers and Angela Lansbury. The other seaons have extras but dont recall what it is.

Thanks. Something I can put in the stockings in December.

Angela Landsbury was quite outspoken about how they set out to kill her rather solid "Murder She Wrote" for the very same reason. I believe they moved it from its well known spot on Sundays to opposite what was then a killer night on NBC's Thursday.

I understand the ageism, to a point.

If I made a product that was only bought by old people, there is a chance I could lose my market. So I always want to cultivate a new market.

(Unless I'm selling adult diapers, when a new generation will come along to replace current diaper users).

But for the soaps, and TPIR, the issue is dying-WITHOUT-replacement. So, then you need to appeal to younger people to try to encourage replacement. Up to that point, I theoretically understand "revamps".

But it ONLY works in theory. It never, ever works in practice. You always kill the franchise when you do this kind of thing.

The ratings fell 15% from the time BB left to the time DC started.

That was not some huge drop.

They need to leave well enough alone, because I'm not in the mood to hear she blames everyone else when this tanks this season.

One thing I don't get is that if they were planning to do all of this all along, why did they make new designs for the doors and turntable for season 36? If they knew they were just gonna take all of that stuff down, wouldn't it have made sense to just keep it the way it was?

Bob Barker has said that this has gone on for years... they've always wanted to update the show every few years, but he insisted on keeping TPIR in the 70s. And it worked. TPIR's cheesy 70s style is/was charming.

It's depressing, although I have to say that the show died for me when Drew took over.

Thanks Sylph for posting that, I appreciate it. I can't believe that they are doing that. Stupid stupid

Looks like this was a LIE.

http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/content_displa...163160d698fb2e7

CBS' Nina Tassler Looking Positively on Next Season

July 18, 2008

-By Marc Berman

CBS Entertainment President Nina Tassler kicked off the first of the Eye net’s two days at TCA optimistically talking about the TV landscape:

“Audiences are watching more hours of TV. The reality is that over two-thirds of American homes have 160 channels to choose from,” said Tassler. So I think right now we're looking at a great assortment of content, a great assortment of programming, and an exciting fall. Given the current climate, people want to be entertained. I think that you're going to find people really gravitating towards their sets this fall and looking to TV to give them that diversion.”

Like its competitors, CBS’ biggest struggle this season was programming around the three month writers strike. But, looking ahead, the emphasis is on keeping CSI on the forefront despite the pending departure of William Petersen (after episode 10 next season), rolling out the five new series, trying to expand its comedy presence outside of Monday, and continuing to program to a mass appeal audience.”

“We're very excited about the writers that we're bringing to TV this year,” noted Tassler. “Bruno Heller, who created the The Mentalist, created Rome for HBO, and Cyrus Voris and Ethan Reiff, who are show-running Eleventh Hour, did Sleeper Cell. These are new voices for us, and I think audiences certainly like a balance of shows and characters that they say, "Okay. I recognize that, but there's something different here.”

Although Tassler would not confirm the future of current struggling drama Swingtown, the network will not be airing repeats of Showtime’s Dexter anytime in the future. The extended episode for Million Dollar Password is unlikely to air this summer. The Price is Right is not going to be overhauled, as rumored. Sarah Chalke is returning to How I Met Your Mother for several episodes. Jorja Fox is coming back to CSI. The network is encouraged about acquiring more Canadian product following the initial positive results for drama Flashpoint. And CBS has several more original made-for movies in the works with Hallmark.

As for the departure of CSI’s William Petersen:

“I don't think you replace Billy, but you sort of look at adding elements to the show that are really going to invigorate and contribute to it,” said Tassler. “They've created a great character. He's a doctor, a scientist who's got a very interesting DNA that is going to sort of inform the dynamic of the team today.”

Edited July 19, 200817 yr by Y&RWorldTurner

I was surprised to read that TPIR had bad demos... We watched it every day in my college dorm. And if you look at contestants, most are either old people or young people.

Juppiter, although it is indeed surprising, TPIR has terrible demos. For many years, the commercials on TPIR have been almost exclusively for denture paste, "mobility solutions," and life insurance. However, that being said, I am a strong believer that total viewers are far more important than demos. Unfortunately, all TV executives believe the exact opposite; their misguided efforts towards pursuing the young demos have led to the freefall in ratings that every soap has been experiencing.

I have visited golden-road.net very recently, and unfortunately, Y&RWorldTurner was incorrect when he/she stated that these rumors are false. (In other words, that article that Y&RWorldTurner posted is itself wrong.) In actuality, the truth is even worse than we imagined: apparently even the big wheel is going to be tampered with in a big way (according to the chatter on golden-road.net, it will either be drastically redesigned--possibly even digitalized--or it will disappear altogether).

Edited July 20, 200817 yr by Max

I don't know, I find it hard to believe that Nina Tassler would make comments saying the rumours are false, and then something else happens come fall.

Another comment from Tassler:

http://www.cleveland.com/tv/index.ssf/2008...rice_is_ri.html

Beverly Hills, Calif. -- The look is right for "The Price is Right." After its first season with Cleveland native Drew Carey as host, the long-running game show will not be receiving a much-rumored overhaul in content and design.

"Absolutely not," said Nina Tassler, president of CBS Entertainment. "We are very respectful of the brand and the integrity of the show."

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/showthread.php?t=228852

The first episode to be taped of Price is Right's 37th season (it's 6th aired) is in the books. Among the changes at the first taping:

*The new producer is longtime Price staffer Kathy "Fingers" Greco

*The show is being aired in high definition starting this season.

*The red/black sides of the Big Wheel are now some sort of purple design with a large silver TPiR Font (Pricedown) dollar sign down each side.

*Apparently for this week (2nd week to air) only, the formerly black spaces on the wheel (IE: Everything but .05, 1.00, and .15) are purple. Apparently they realized how ugly that would look, as Drew told the audience the spaces would change back to black at next weeks' tapings

*The show has now adopted the nighttime set entirely with the exception of the floor, which is still white.

*The winnings for bonus spins have increased: Getting the .05 or .15 now earns you $10,000; hitting the dollar in your bonus spin is now worth $25,000.

*A few pricing games are getting boosts for inflation (Check Game is one, and I know of at least one other )

Info courtesy TPiR fansite: Golden Road.net

AS for the bigger changes rumored: We're not out of the woods quite yet - no one's sure whether they'll occur at all, or November, or February, or some random Thursday in October.

that is a relief, though you're probably right that it'll change more as next season goes along. In the 70s they always thought skewing young in your demos were a BAD thing because teenagers didn't make the buying decisions. Oh to have that kind of thinking in daytime today.

During the TCA last week Nina Tassler said that Price was NOT being completely overhauled as reported.

Hopefully they came to their senses before it was too late.

I know this thread is about TPIR, but I saw some commercial for Wheel of Fortune about how they're upping the biggest cash amount to $1 million in the fall. Blah. TIIC are never satisfied with leaving game shows alone.

Edited August 18, 200817 yr by bandbfan