Hello again my g-r.net friends.

Okay, I have a question regarding contestants. Do you guys think a certain occupation for a contestant who appears on the show can play to an advantage or disadvantage? If so, what occupations do you think would have an advantage or a disadvantage and why? Let me know! Thanks crew!

This is a case in which "snazzy" presentation wasn't necessary because Give or Keep did pretty much the same job, but faster.

I've never looked at pricing games as "doing the job".  By that logic, why have Side by Side and Coming or Going when you have Double Prices?  They're all games in which you choose the correct price between two alternatives.  I suppose you could argue they were different in that the former two had conventions for how the two prices were formed, whereas Double Prices has no restrictions on how the the fake is constructed, and that is enough to make the concepts distinct, in contrast to Finish Line which had only "window dressing" that Give or Keep didn't have.

But I still like Finish Line and think it was a good game, even if it did move more slowly; and that's a problem you could have fixed.  Instead of the mechanical gate that moved down the track as slowly as it did, you could have done it Give or Keep style putting up a running total and having a model manually move the gate along the track.  As for the horserace, well... this was no different than Hurdles, but they needed to do a better job at showing the prices of the items placed on the horse to keep tabs on if the correct choice was made or not.  They had these dim lights that lit up as the horse passed the prices of the selected items, but by then you didn't even remember what the price of the item placed on the finish line was and couldn't see them.

I wonder if they will use the Hip Hop squares set and redress it as Hollywood Squares or will they just tape in California.

https://deadline.com/2024/05/hollywood-squares-reboot-drew-barrymore-cbs-1235902756/

This news was also announced with the return of The Price Is Right At Night with the CBS fall schedule release that jimmyuTPIR shared in the Talk Is Right section, as a Hollywood Squares revival with Drew Barrymore as the center square will be kicking off the network's midseason schedule in January.

The Price is Right at Night is coming back next season. It will air on Wednesday nights in between seasons of Survivor.
https://tvline.com/news/cbs-fall-schedule-2024-lineup-tracker-young-sheldon-ncis-spinoff-1235227615/

Completely unexpected but beyond excited for this!