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The Price Is Right has been a mainstay on daytime television for decades. The game show premiered in 1956 with host Bill Cullen and was rebooted in 1972 with legend Bob Barker.

Drew Carey has hosted the program since 2007. Normally, the show takes a break during the summer. However, fans were shocked when it was removed from the lineup without warning. Keep on reading to learn more.

Price Is Right – Fans Shocked By Bold Move

The Price Is Right fans are upset with CBS. The show was removed from daytime without notice. The mix up happened shortly after fans were upset over the lack of episodes. On Monday, July 8, viewers witnessed host Drew Carey in a wrestling costume and were confused.

CBS aired a rerun of the 2023 Halloween special. But most fans didn’t understand what was going on. Most of them took to X, formerly Twitter, to react to the rerun.

Those of us who grew up with “Sesame Street” still remember Guy Smiley, the stereotypical game show host as originally voiced by Jim Henson. Guy was loud, boisterous and the host of everything from “Here Is Your Life” and “Beat the Time” to “Name That Sound!”

Guy Smiley served a purpose for “Sesame Street,” and so did real-life game show hosts. It was a very specific group: Bob Barker, Monty Hall, Jack Berry, Bill Cullen, Wink Martindale, Bob Eubanks, Richard Dawson, Gene Rayburn, Alex Trebek and many more. As he retires, “Wheel of Fortune” host Pat Sajak may be the last of that string of game show hosts pretty much only known for being a game show host.

Game show host is a tough job, requiring a lot of skill to juggle the gameplay, keep the contestants involved and the audience entertained. But as parodies like “Guy Smiley” hint at,...

A Superfan, Jr. contestant amazed host Drew Carey with his knowledge of The Price Is Right and his winnings.

Drew even joked to announcer George Gray, “We’re in trouble today,” after meeting the young contestant before he even attempted to win any prizes.

The game show host also cracked a few jokes about the contestant’s attempt to take home a sweet prize.

The Price Is Right at Night recently returned to television, including Superfan and Superfan, Jr. contestants.

These were contestants selected for the show based on their fandom and love for The Price Is Right.

The Superfan, Jr. contestants were younger and included Jacob, who was excited to meet Drew and play an all-time favorite game.

Superfan, Jr. tries to win $100K on The Price Is Right

A Superfan, Jr. contestant, Jacob, was ecstatic as he spun around and screamed after learning he’d get to play Plinko for $100,000.

In the game,...

The Price Is Right at Night will feature unique prizes and contestants, including one who surprised the host.

In addition to the daytime episodes, Drew Carey hosts the popular game show’s upcoming primetime version, and sneak peeks revealed several contestants.

The night episodes also feature kids participating in the show, referred to as Superfan, Jr. contestants.

Once Drew meets a Superfan, Jr. contestant on stage, he typically asks them what makes them a “Superfan” of the show.

In one instance, a boy indicated that the show helps bring his family together, as they record the daytime episodes and watch them each evening.

Another contestant really seemed to catch Drew off guard, with the host even suggesting the show was “in trouble.”

Drew has a unique interaction with a Superfan

Most contestants get excited when they get on stage to meet Drew before participating in a pricing game for prizes.

Meg Bennett, the Daytime Emmy winner who did double duty as an actress and writer on the daytime soap operas The Young and the Restless, General Hospital and Santa Barbara, has died. She was 75.

Bennett died April 11 after a battle with cancer, her family announced.

Bennett portrayed Marty Maraschino for more than two years during the original Broadway run of Grease that kicked off in 1972, then began her long run in daytime two years later with a turn as Liza Walton on CBS’ Search for Tomorrow, where Kevin Kline and Morgan Fairchild were castmates.

She joined CBS’ The Young and the Restless in 1980 as Julia Newman — wife of Eric Braeden’s Victor Newman — but as her character was being written off, she was asked by Y&r creator Bill Bell to stick around as a writer.

“I’d been acting on the show for almost two years when this happened, so I knew the characters,...

Bob Barker was a pillar of television’s greatest generation.

Barker, the enduring host of “The Price Is Right” who died Aug. 26 at the age of 99, was a World War II veteran who trained as a Navy fighter pilot. But his destiny was not to fly missions in the Pacific theater. Barker’s service to his country came in the years after the war, when he and an elite corps of seasoned radio announcers laid a large part of the foundation for commercial television as we know it today.

Barker was a born broadcaster. He had a resonant voice, and his 6-foot-1 frame didn’t hurt in making an impression on viewers in the early days of grainy TV pictures. But his biggest asset was the gift of being to speak extemporaneously on live television – and make it look and feel natural while doing so.

Bob Barker, Longtime Host of ‘The Price Is Right,...

Bob Barker will not have a funeral and there won’t be a memorial service, Et has learned.

In a statement to Et, the late TV personality’s rep, Roger Neal, said it was the former “Price Is Right” host’s request that he not have a funeral or memorial service. Neal also told Et that Barker will be laid to rest next to his wife, Dorothy Jo Gideon, at Forest Lawn Memorial Cemetery in the Hollywood Hills.

Et confirmed on Saturday that the iconic TV host had died. He was 99.

“It is with profound sadness that we announce that the World’s Greatest Mc who ever lived, Bob Barker, has left us,” Neal said in a statement to Et. Neal served as Barker’s publicist from 1987 to 1994. They started working together again in 2020.

TMZ, who first broke the news, reported that Barker died of natural causes Saturday morning at his home in Los Angeles.

Bob Barker, the longtime host of television game show The Price Is Right, has died, according to his publicist. He was 99 and died at his home a few months short of his 100th birthday.

“It is with profound sadness that we announce that the World’s Greatest Mc who ever lived, Bob Barker has left us,” publicist Roger Neal said in a statement Saturday. No cause was given.

The Price Is Right franchise began in 1956 as a television game show hosted by Bill Cullen and was revamped in 1972, when Barker became host. Drew Carey has hosted the program since 2007.

The game show had already been canceled by two networks before finding a home at CBS in 1972. Barker’s charm helped revive the sagging show, and it continues to air to this day.

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Barker spent more than half a century on TV,...

Let's hope they have Plinko in the afterlife because the longest-running "The Price is Right" host, Bob Barker, has died at the age of 99. The news was first reported by ABC7. Barker hosted "The Price is Right" for over three decades -- from 1972 to 2007 -- asking contestants to come on down and try to guess the correct prices of items, ranging from groceries to huge prize packages like a cruise, a set of luggage, and a brand new car. On his watch, "The Price is Right" became the longest-running game show in North American history. And with its success, Barker became a household name, a comforting face, and a voice that was regularly on TV every weekday morning.

Barker began his career in radio before moving to the NBC television series "Truth or Consequences" as host in 1956, where he stayed for nearly 20 years. In 1972, after "The Price is Right" was...

When writing a 97th birthday salute to the great Mel Brooks on Wednesday, I neglected to include my favorite story surrounding Brooks. It involved his most embarrassing moment, which happened in 1966. He recalled the cringeworthy moment in a special with talk show host Dick Cavett in 2011, and it involved the affable game show host Bill Cullen.

“About a hundred years ago, I was on a show called, ‘Eye Guess’,” Brooks recalled, “with a lady named Julia Meade and the host, Bill Cullen. I was doing my usual thing, ad-libbing, having a good time. So, the show is over, and I turned and noticed that Cullen is starting to walk out from behind his podium.”

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Interrupting the story here, Cullen walked in an exaggerated and jerky fashion as a result of a childhood bout with polio that left him disabled with...

The Price Is Right is on the move. The iconic CBS game show, produced by Fremantle, is leaving Television City, the Los Angeles studio complex where it has taped since its 1972 relaunch. The daytime staple will relocate to Haven Studios, a new facility in nearby Glendale, in which Fremantle is an investor with a long-term lease.

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Hackman Capital Partners, which bought Television City for $750 million from CBS Corp. in 2019, is planning a $1.25 billion renovation of the landmark complex. In addition to The Price Is Right, it has been housing CBS’ The Late Late Show with James Corden,...

With a resurgence of game shows on primetime television, “To Tell the Truth” made a fantastic comeback with ABC in 2016. Its latest reimagination, hosted by the beloved “Black-ish” star Anthony Anderson alongside Mama Doris, has captivated audiences.

If you’re looking for an entertaining game show to tune in to with your family or friends, you can enjoy the revival of this classic on ABC on Tuesday nights at 10 p.m. Alternatively, if you prefer streaming online, you can find the latest seasons and episodes on ABC and Hulu. Finally, if you’re interested in watching some of the initial seasons, you can buy them on Amazon Prime Video.

The show features a panel of four celebrities and three contestants. Of the three contestants, one plays the real character while the other two play impostors. Before the game begins, the host reads aloud something unusual about the real character that makes them identifiable.

First it won the Golden Lion at Venice. Then it polarized critics further in Toronto. Now Warner Bros./DC’s “Joker” is getting ready for its big debut in theaters with hopes that Batman and Joaquin Phoenix fans alike will turn out in theaters despite the bleak, nihilistic tone of Todd Phillips’ tragedy.

Since its Venice premiere, “Joker” has rocketed to the top of the awards conversation; particularly for Phoenix, whom prognosticators now say could get his fourth Oscar nomination for his performance as the miserable soul that transforms into the murderous Joker. That awards buzz has helped push the first round of box office tracking to a projected opening of at least $75 million. One independent tracker projecting an opening of $90 million, which would pass “Venom” as the biggest October opening ever.

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A trio of American gameshows including The Price Is Right, Strike It Lucky and Play Your Cards Right are being rebooted by ITV in a seven-part series hosted by Alan Carr.

The British commercial broadcaster has ordered Alan Carr’s Epic Gameshow, which will see the classic gameshows supersized and brought together. Classic British formats Take Your Pick and darts-based Bullseye are also part of the series.

The show, which is produced by Fremantle-owned Talkback, will see contestants hoping to win either big-cash rewards or prizes with each format climaxing with an all new end game.

The Price Is Right first aired on NBC and was hosted by Bill Cullen with contestants competing to win cash and prizes by guessing the pricing of household items; Strike It Lucky is based on U.S. syndicated gameshow Strike It Rich and sees contestants answering trivia questions to move up an archway; Play...

1962: Our Five Daughters premiered on NBC.

1968: Dark Shadows' Angelique dug her way of Jeremiah's grave.

1980: Barbara hid a big secret on As the World Turns.

2004: Rebecca and Julian were married on Passions."History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images."

― Anselm Kiefer

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1959: CBS Radio aired the final episode of Bakcstage Wife, the story of Mary Noble, a girl from a small town in Iowa who came to New York seeking her future. The show was created by Frank and Anne Hummert and premiered August 5, 1935 on the Mutual Broadcasting System.

1962: Our Five Daughters premiered on NBC.

1968: Dark Shadows' Angelique dug her way of Jeremiah's grave.

1980: Atwt's Barbara was keeping a big secret.

2004: Rebecca and Julian were married on Passions."History is a vast early warning system."

― Norman Cousins

"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.

On this date in...

1959: CBS Radio aired the final episode of Bakcstage Wife, the story of Mary Noble, a girl from a small town in Iowa who came to New York seeking her future. The show was created by Frank and Anne Hummert and premiered August 5, 1935 on the Mutual Broadcasting System. Claire Niesen played the role of Mary from the early 1940s until the end of its run.

Remember when big-name stars didn’t want to do TV? Now they’re even clamoring for jobs as game show hosts.

Alec Baldwin (ABC’s “Match Game”), Taye Diggs (Fox’s “Hypnotize Me”), Jane Lynch (NBC’s “Celebrity Game Night”) and Anthony Anderson (ABC’s “To Tell the Truth”) are just some of the actors who now front major primetime game shows, in addition to their regular scripted work.

“You look at game shows from the 1970s and 1980s, they were somewhat cheesy,” Anderson said. “It’s different now. It’s a lot classier. It’s cool.”

Wayne Brady, who has hosted a “Let’s Make a Deal” revival for CBS since 2009, joked that “being a game show host was very much akin to being a local affiliate weatherman – and no offense to local affiliate weathermen, but there’s a stereotype.”

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With this Sunday’s simultaneous launch of $100,000 Pyramid and Match Game, ABC has upped its retro game show reboot roster to a full four shows, if one lumps in (Celebrity) Family Feud with the recently premiered To Tell the Truth.

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Celebrity Family Feud is now in its second season (and the “civilian” flavor has been in and out of syndicated TV), so there’s nothing much to discuss on that front — save for Kelli Pickler seemingly thinking the final round poses essay questions. To Tell the Truth meanwhile revived an oldie but goodie,...

It's the season for shopping, or at least that's what the holiday advertisements tell us. It's up to you whether you hit the malls or just stay home and make your loved ones homemade Popsicle-stick ornaments this year, but in either case, we've got a treat for you. We're rounding up The Price Is Right, Supermarket Sweep and TV's other delightfully weird, shopping-centric game shows.

Think of it as a way of psyching yourself up for those post-Black Friday treks back to the shops – or just enough shopping to remind you why you're abstaining this year.

The Price Is Right

Of course,...

I got the memo about Alex Trebek potentially leaving Jeopardy! in 2016, and that sent my mind into a frenzy (accompanied by the ping-pang-pow sound effect of a Daily Double). Alex Trebek's name is synonymous with Jeopardy! for a reason: He is an astoundingly great host who knows so much trivia and loves the learning process. You might think his knack for accents and correcting contestants is pretentious or annoying, but that discipline is so essential to the dignity and respect of the show's difficult material. Hell, this man hosts the National Geography Bee every year. He is a TV legend and it pains me to think of him departing the series.

But the task becomes a little bit easier when I think of some of the qualified people who could replace him. A few names have been thrown about loudly -- particularly Matt Lauer's and Anderson Cooper's...

Get this: Gotye's kooky earworm "Somebody That I Used to Know" beat out Carly Rae Jepsen's jumpy hopscotch anthem "Call Me Maybe" to top Spotify's list of The Top 100 Most Popular Songs of the Year. It was either one or the other, so I suppose we shouldn't be surprised. Here's the full Top 10.

1. Gotye featuring Kimbra — "Somebody That I Used to Know"

2. Carly Rae Jepsen — "Call Me Maybe"

3. Fun. featuring Janelle Monáe — "We Are Young"

4. Flo Rida — "Whistle"

5. Flo Rida featuring Sia — "Wild Ones"

6. Train — "Drive By"

7. Nicki Minaj — "Starships"

8. Maroon 5 featuring Wiz Khalifa — "Payphone"

9. David Guetta featuring Sia — "Titanium"

10. Loreen — "Euphoria"

Hmmm. Can't say I'm in love with this rundown. Here are three songs I wish had at least scored a single-digit position.

3. No Doubt, "Looking Hot"

Yep, No Doubt yanked the video for "Looking Hot" because its Native American imagery could be construed as offensive, but...

Some people are saying that this video of a kid on Child’s Play, a game show from the 70′s, is Dr. Dre. Some people are saying it definitely is not Dr. Dre (it’s probably not). Doesn’t matter: footage of this kid talking about the polyamory lifestyle and accessing financial security in women to the host, Bill Cullen (who was probably a very nice man, but because it’s the seventies and he’s got those glasses and he leans in so close to Tiny Dr. Dre/Ronald Blair Wilkinson III, he’s a creep by default) is priceless. Somewhere, Dr. Dre or Ronald Blair Wilkinson III is laughing. [Reddit via Dangerous Minds] – Eliot Glazer...

Don Pardo, the longtime announcer who has contributed Saturday Night Live's opening credit wails even after claiming he'd quit in 2009, turns 92 today. Darrell Hammond can't even understand that level of commitment. Since his career began in (ahem) 1938, Pardo has announced for the original versions of The Price is Right (with Bill Cullen), the original Jeopardy! (with Art Fleming), the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, and all but one season of SNL. For a glimpse into Pardo's own comic chops, do enjoy his wicked contribution to the Weird Al Yankovic hit "I Lost on Jeopardy." Happy birthday, sir.