These days I generally prefer riding out the suspense with a wait-and-see approach.
I WILL note something very specific regarding to the fur ban: Game Show Network, by the admission of staffers at the time, took a very heavy hand with the application of the fur et. al bans. (Several shows managed to slip through content screening the first time through, but almost none of them reran again on the 2nd loop of the half hour shows, or on WinTV for the hourlong). It's the reason they only ran 70 Cullen episodes despite the vast majority of the nighttime run existing, for example, because they were applying the ban to ALL of Price.
That last part's the important part - Fremantle has already dipped their toes in the water on applying it less stringently, having now aired most all of the surviving nighttime shows from 1959-61 regardless of furs (except for the occasional damaged episode, show w content issues, etc).
I could EASILY see (especially now that, to be direct, Bob is dead) applying the rule to say "No furs in shows that Bob is in", at which point they suddenly have 195 Dennis James nighttime shows they can run. (Plus whichever Bob shows don't have furs). I would absolutely not rule out the Dennis James shows just because GSN didn't air them. Especially with Bob gone. Or maybe Kennedy. Hell, maybe it'll be Bob shows. Could be the shows from Pluto being repurposed. Could be other episodes.
Anything I say is just an uneducated guess - with the sole exception that I do know that GSN not airing Dennis' version was a GSN choice and not an outside mandate to give anything titled The Price is Right featuring furs a wide berth (and it affecting like 3/4 of the nighttime eps), that it had nothing to do with the PM version "looking like Bob's", and that we now have proof that Buzzr's been willing to narrow the scope of that (after originally following it).
