What I can't understand is, there's precedent for this situation. Travel back fourteen years with me to 1994, when Paramount first met with CBS executives regarding a proposed "NEW Price is Right" in pre-production at the time. Then, as now, high-powered executives had their ideas for a new brand of Price that would appeal to younger viewers and would feature a more modern set and updated music, with a completely different opening style and feel for the show. Then, as now, big meetings happened, and some of them were to deal with "talent" (or lack thereof; see also, Davidson, Douglas).
And what I can't understand is, if they've got such a desire to make all sorts of changes, why not spin off a separate primetime show to test them out? CBS could theoretically sign off on that, and I rather imagine they'd prefer having a separate primetime show a la TNPiR'94 to testbed the proposed changes rather than just implementing them willy-nilly in daytime and hoping for the best.
Just a thought...