The Price is Right is returning to primetime – and giving viewers a dose of reality.
CBS will air three special episodes of their long-running game show – and will get a little help from the networks' biggest unscripted hits.
Each episode will tie in a reality show: Survivor, Big Brother and The Amazing Race. Former castaways, houseguests and racers will play alongside their biggest fans, and hosts Jeff Probst, Julie Chen and Phil Keoghan will also stop by.
CBS will begin playing promos for the show during Friday night's season finale of The Amazing Race. (We've got an exclusive sneak peek...
CBS will air three special episodes of their long-running game show – and will get a little help from the networks' biggest unscripted hits.
Each episode will tie in a reality show: Survivor, Big Brother and The Amazing Race. Former castaways, houseguests and racers will play alongside their biggest fans, and hosts Jeff Probst, Julie Chen and Phil Keoghan will also stop by.
CBS will begin playing promos for the show during Friday night's season finale of The Amazing Race. (We've got an exclusive sneak peek...
- 5/13/2016
- by Steve Helling, @stevehelling
- People.com - TV Watch
The Price is Right is returning to primetime - and giving viewers a dose of reality. CBS will air three special episodes of their long-running game show - and will get a little help from the networks' biggest unscripted hits. Each episode will tie in a reality show: Survivor, Big Brother and The Amazing Race. Former castaways, houseguests and racers will play alongside their biggest fans, and hosts Jeff Probst, Julie Chen and Phil Keoghan will also stop by. CBS will begin playing promos for the show during Friday night's season finale of The Amazing Race. (We've got an exclusive...
- 5/13/2016
- by Steve Helling, @stevehelling
- PEOPLE.com
ABC is bringing back its winter game show Duel next month.
The network has ordered 10 one-hour episodes to air Friday nights starting April 4.
Duel is a trivia show where contestants play head-to-head for a chance of winning up to $500,000. ESPN's Mike Greenberg will return as host.
Though the show performed modestly during its original six-episode airing, the series ran during the December holidays when audience levels are lower.
Executive producer Chris Cowan said some tweaks have been made to Duel to make the series' rules more intuitive and to jack up the suspense. Also, instead a serialized tournament format where contestants played for several episodes in hopes of winning the top prize, the new Duel episodes will be more self-contained.
"The tournament structure made it more difficult to just drop into the game," Cowan said. "Now this is a lot more exciting on a duel-by-duel basis. You also get a chance to double your money at the end."
Friday nights are shaping up to be a broadcast game show battleground, with NBC's Amnesia and CBS' Price Is Right Million Dollar Spectacular vying for viewers in recent weeks.
The network has ordered 10 one-hour episodes to air Friday nights starting April 4.
Duel is a trivia show where contestants play head-to-head for a chance of winning up to $500,000. ESPN's Mike Greenberg will return as host.
Though the show performed modestly during its original six-episode airing, the series ran during the December holidays when audience levels are lower.
Executive producer Chris Cowan said some tweaks have been made to Duel to make the series' rules more intuitive and to jack up the suspense. Also, instead a serialized tournament format where contestants played for several episodes in hopes of winning the top prize, the new Duel episodes will be more self-contained.
"The tournament structure made it more difficult to just drop into the game," Cowan said. "Now this is a lot more exciting on a duel-by-duel basis. You also get a chance to double your money at the end."
Friday nights are shaping up to be a broadcast game show battleground, with NBC's Amnesia and CBS' Price Is Right Million Dollar Spectacular vying for viewers in recent weeks.
- 3/13/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
MyNetworkTV scored its highest household rating since its September launch Wednesday night with Anna Nicole Smith: Centerfold Revisited and Britney Spears: A Pop Idol Exposed, which delivered a combined 0.9 household rating from 8-10 p.m., representing a 200% increase over the previous week. It should be noted that the shows aired opposite tough competition from CBS' The Price Is Right Million Dollar Spectacular, featuring Bob Barker's final primetime appearance hosting the show, and the elimination episode of Fox's American Idol, the night's highest-rated program.
- 5/21/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Without a Trace popped for CBS Thursday on a night of lessened competition from reruns on NBC. CBS won the night on the strength of a fresh installment of 9 p.m.'s CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, which brought in 24.6 million viewers and 7.9 rating/22 share in the adults 18-49 demographic, coupled with a solid retention performance from Without a Trace (19.2 million, 6.1/17) against a repeat ER (11.1 million, 4.9/14), according to preliminary estimates from Nielsen Media Research. CBS took a big drop in the opening hour of primetime in its first Survivor-less Thursday of the season, following Sunday's Survivor: Pearl Islands finale, but all things considered the Price is Right Spectacular special (12.5 million, 3.2/10) did respectable business in the 8 p.m. hour against a rerun of NBC's Friends (13.4 million, 6.1/19) and an original Good Morning, Miami (10.3 million, 4.8/14). The weaker lead-in took a toll on CSI's demo performance, but the original episode of TV's top drama still jumped 11 share points at 9 p.m. against repeats of NBC's Will & Grace (10.3 million, 4.8/14) and Scrubs (9.0 million, 4.4/12).
- 12/19/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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