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Title: Press Your Luck Returns!
Post by: goldroadfanatic on February 21, 2019, 04:16:55 PM
This is quite the surprise.  One of the most-loved classic game shows, complete with Big Bucks and Whammies, is back!  Casting details are here (https://pressyourluck.castingcrane.com/).  According to Buzzerblog (http://buzzerblog.com/2019/02/21/press-your-luck-revival-now-casting), the word on the street is this is going to be taped for ABC, which will be a nice addition add to their "Fun & Games" lineup.

Overall, I can't wait for the show to return.  I feel it is the one classic game show that will adapt well to the modern age.
Title: Re: Press Your Luck Returns!
Post by: tpir04 on February 21, 2019, 04:32:42 PM
Kudos to ABC for renewing all these shows! Especially since they were the first network to drop out of the genre entirely in 1987.

Personally, I thought we were long overdue for a new PYL. Let's hope this one fares better than the 2002 Whammy! revival did.
Title: Re: Press Your Luck Returns!
Post by: Ccook on February 21, 2019, 05:53:06 PM
Actually the dropped out of the game show genre in 1991 after they canceled the Ross Shafer Match Game.
Title: Re: Press Your Luck Returns!
Post by: blozier2006 on February 21, 2019, 06:13:59 PM
Actually the dropped out of the game show genre in 1991 after they canceled the Ross Shafer Match Game.
And said Match Game was the only game they did post-'87.
Title: Re: Press Your Luck Returns!
Post by: imhomerjay on February 21, 2019, 07:59:29 PM
Except some show less than a decade later about millionaires.
Title: Re: Press Your Luck Returns!
Post by: Roadgeek Adam on February 21, 2019, 10:10:12 PM
Show Me the Money from 2006, the poor man's Deal or No Deal, also was an ABC product.

Title: Re: Press Your Luck Returns!
Post by: mechamind on February 21, 2019, 10:44:40 PM
...we could go on and on about the ABC game shows between 1991 and now, couldn't we? :P

Press Your Luck definitely deserved another chance. And maybe the Whammy will be something internet worthy.
Title: Re: Press Your Luck Returns!
Post by: tpir04 on February 22, 2019, 09:29:48 AM
Press Your Luck definitely deserved another chance.

Press Your Luck deserved a Second Chance.  :oldlol:

And especially by being on ABC instead of GSN like Whammy! was, the new PYL will get a lot more exposure. 
Title: Re: Press Your Luck Returns!
Post by: Teddy on February 22, 2019, 09:59:44 AM
Any chance ABC will slot this after Pyramid, like CBS did back in the 80s?

In any case, it'll be great to see PYL back!
Title: Re: Press Your Luck Returns!
Post by: Superballer on February 22, 2019, 11:39:48 AM
Given USA also had it running after Pyramid for a few years, it would seem only right to do so.  This is indeed good news, and hopefully this version works well. 
Title: Re: Press Your Luck Returns!
Post by: jhc2010 on February 22, 2019, 03:06:11 PM
Press Your Luck has remained relevant in today's culture despite production ending in the 1980s.

There are Press Your Luck slot machines all over the country using the original game's look (Todd Newton is the announcer on the slot machine).  There are poker promotions at one of Las Vegas' largest poker rooms (The Orleans) that use the Whammy.  There is an in-game promotion at Columbus Blue Jackets games that has contestants play the Press Your Luck big board complete with "Whambonis" (Whammys riding Zambonis).

It really surprises me that it has taken this long for a reboot to surface!

What will the prizes on the big board be?  $5,000 in 1986 is equivalent to about $11,500 in 2018.  Would the top on the board be "$10,000 + spin"?  Or since it is a primetime series, would it be "$20,000 + spin"?
Title: Re: Press Your Luck Returns!
Post by: tpir04 on February 22, 2019, 03:26:11 PM
What will the prizes on the big board be?  $5,000 in 1986 is equivalent to about $11,500 in 2018.  Would the top on the board be "$10,000 + spin"?  Or since it is a primetime series, would it be "$20,000 + spin"?

I wouldn't be surprised if the ($5000 + spin) is still the top prize simply to stay true to the original format. Whammy! had a $5000 top space on the board as well.

The only thing I'm concerned about are the Super Whammies making the game run through too quickly.
Title: Re: Press Your Luck Returns!
Post by: JayC on February 22, 2019, 03:46:01 PM
I'm going to guess the top dollar amount on the board will be $10,000 + spin if not more. That was the top prize when PYL was on the Gameshow Marathon CBS did in 2006.
Title: Re: Press Your Luck Returns!
Post by: GRWHAMMY the 2nd on February 22, 2019, 05:07:13 PM
I wouldn't be surprised if the ($5000 + spin) is still the top prize simply to stay true to the original format. Whammy! had a $5000 top space on the board as well.

The only thing I'm concerned about are the Super Whammies making the game run through too quickly.

what "super whammies"
Title: Re: Press Your Luck Returns!
Post by: b_masters8 on February 22, 2019, 05:23:49 PM
what "super whammies"

That's what I want to know about as well!
Title: Re: Press Your Luck Returns!
Post by: geniusinmath on February 23, 2019, 12:10:39 AM
Who will host it?
Title: Re: Press Your Luck Returns!
Post by: tpir04 on February 23, 2019, 09:09:28 AM
what "super whammies"

Who will host it?

According to the PYL Fandom page:

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Press Your Luck (2019 reboot)
Press Your Luck is a 2019 primetime game show created by Bill Carruthers. It is based on both the 1983-1986 game show and the 2002-2003 version known as Whammy!, of the same name. It premiered on CBS in June 7th, 2019 and was hosted by Rhys Darby (replacing Peter Tomarken in the original series and Todd Newton in Whammy!). The show announcer will be voiced by Jeffrey Tambor (replacing the late Rod Roddy in the original series and Gary Kroeger in Whammy!). The Whammy 2-D animations appear in the reboot and are voiced by Jeff Bergman (replacing the late Carruthers in both the original series and Whammy!). Including some new elements called the Super Whammy, which will automatically eliminate the plyer who lands on it, and the Platinum Ticket, which will give the player an extravagant prize of the player’s choice so long as He or She avoids the whammy.

However, I cannot find anything on Wikipedia itself except for this:

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On February 21, 2019, a casting announcement was posted for a new version of Press Your Luck advertising opportunities for potential contestants to apply.

All that said, I sure hope this is for real and not some jokester pulling off a Crane Game-esque hoax.
Title: Re: Press Your Luck Returns!
Post by: wink87 on February 23, 2019, 10:21:59 AM
I can't see them having a square that completely eliminates a contestant. That would be really cruel.
Title: Re: Press Your Luck Returns!
Post by: vnisanian2001 on February 23, 2019, 10:30:15 AM
I doubt that's Bill Carruthers' voice in the 2002 revival.
Title: Re: Press Your Luck Returns!
Post by: urbanpreppie0004 on February 23, 2019, 10:31:59 AM
....just....stop. Geez.
Title: Re: Press Your Luck Returns!
Post by: ThomHuge on February 23, 2019, 10:47:29 AM
@tpir04: everything you quoted from the fandom page reads like fiction, and poorly-written fiction at that. The tipoff for me: it "premiered" in June 2019 (you can't talk about a future event in the past tense), and the "announcer" being "voiced by" (bad English).

The Wikipedia entry at least records a factual event, they HAVE just sent out a call, but I thought it was for contestants (personally I wouldn't call that a "casting call," but that's semantics).

@vnisanian2001: frankly, I'm with urbanpreppie0004.

Folks, a word to the wise: whenever you see something on a webpage that anyone can edit with no accountability, take it with a grain of salt. There are all kinds of people who use the Web, and a very common trope is people who post things just to post them (or post just to get attention and look like an "expert" with inside information), or who lack the ability/desire to distinguish their own ideas from reality. What was posted to that PYL Fandom page reads exactly like someone's own idea for what they'd like to see in a revival show, being misrepresented as fact.
Title: Re: Press Your Luck Returns!
Post by: vnisanian2001 on February 23, 2019, 11:00:28 AM
Whoa, urbanpreppie0004, no need to gang up on me like that. I was merely questioning what I saw.
Title: Re: Press Your Luck Returns!
Post by: Off_trak on February 23, 2019, 01:04:37 PM
Dunno who this Rhys Darby is suppose to be (and considering portions of that paragraph is written in the post-tense, very likely total BS)  but I definitely wouldn't mind seeing Craig Ferguson hosting this version.
Title: Re: Press Your Luck Returns!
Post by: tpir04 on February 23, 2019, 01:55:49 PM
After taking a closer look at the original entry, I see it was posted in the Wiki Ideas page. My mobile phone is what I mainly use for research, so I usually get the mobile sites instead of what you might get on a laptop or desktop computer. The mobile site had no tip-offs or anything. The top of the page just said 'Wiki Fandom.' Only when I opened the full site did I find that it was only an Ideas page. If I had known that in the first place, I would not have posted the info here. My apologies for any confusion.
Title: Re: Press Your Luck Returns!
Post by: ThomHuge on February 23, 2019, 03:25:36 PM
To tpir04 and anyone else reading: I think the lesson here is to not be in such a hurry and to do a little fact-checking before you post. If you share things as fact without doing due diligence, it gets you attention but doesn't do much for your credibility. I use my Android phone for most of my research, and I always pay careful attention to the URL at the top of the screen to know what site I'm actually on, regardless of what the mobile version may or may not show.

I would say the same before attempting to draw conclusions with little or no supporting information--such as concluding a station was going off the air simply because of an incomplete program schedule, with no other hint that it would be happening.
Title: Re: Press Your Luck Returns!
Post by: tpir04 on February 23, 2019, 06:53:41 PM
Point taken. Thanks for your advice.
Title: Re: Press Your Luck Returns!
Post by: COINBOYNYC on February 23, 2019, 09:42:42 PM
So, this revival of Press Your Luck is not happening?  Or, did I misread something?
Title: Re: Press Your Luck Returns!
Post by: mechamind on February 23, 2019, 09:49:04 PM
^ I think that was referring to tpir04's post, not the original post by goldroadfanatic.
Title: Re: Press Your Luck Returns!
Post by: jaywilliams on February 25, 2019, 08:06:02 PM
According to the PYL Fandom page:

However, I cannot find anything on Wikipedia itself except for this:

All that said, I sure hope this is for real and not some jokester pulling off a Crane Game-esque hoax.
I am guessing that should and if Press Your Luck return, my guess is that it will be on CBS' summer prime time schedule. CBS and NBC desperately need to build a prime time game show line-up like ABC has.
Title: Re: Press Your Luck Returns!
Post by: GR_Man_9009 on February 25, 2019, 08:12:16 PM
I am guessing that should and if Press Your Luck return, my guess is that it will be on CBS' summer prime time schedule. CBS and NBC desperately need to build a prime time game show line-up like ABC has.
Rumor has it that it's going to be on ABC NOT CBS
Title: Re: Press Your Luck Returns!
Post by: jaywilliams on February 25, 2019, 08:21:18 PM
Rumor has it that it's going to be on ABC NOT CBS
With five game shows in summer prime time, one of them airing at mid season, ABC does not have room for it. The other choice would be first-run Syndication paired with Steve Harvey's Family Feud, Alec Baldwin's Match Game and possibly a new reboot of Card Sharks in a syndicated game show block of between 90 minutes and two hours. Look at it this way, ABC has six prime time game shows on its prime time lineups which is more than enough, NBC has at least two prime time games, CBS has two daytime games in LMAD and of course, Price but none at night and Fox and the CW both also have no nighttime games. So there are other alternatives for the new PYL reboot to air on, ABC is near booked.
Title: Re: Press Your Luck Returns!
Post by: ThomHuge on February 25, 2019, 08:58:39 PM
With five game shows in summer prime time, one of them airing at mid season, ABC does not have room for it. The other choice would be first-run Syndication paired with Steve Harvey's Family Feud, Alec Baldwin's Match Game and possibly a new reboot of Card Sharks in a syndicated game show block of between 90 minutes and two hours. Look at it this way, ABC has six prime time game shows on its prime time lineups which is more than enough, NBC has at least two prime time games, CBS has two daytime games in LMAD and of course, Price but none at night and Fox and the CW both also have no nighttime games. So there are other alternatives for the new PYL reboot to air on, ABC is near booked.

Not one syllable of which changes the fact that yes, indeed, it's going to be on ABC (as best we can tell from the information available anyway). Clearly, ABC doesn't feel they're "near booked."
Title: Re: Press Your Luck Returns!
Post by: tpir04 on February 25, 2019, 09:05:42 PM
If ABC felt they didn't have room for it, I don't think they would pick it up in the first place.

Fox and the CW both also have no nighttime games.

Would The Masked Singer and Mental Samurai count? Fox was also supposed to have Spin the Wheel, hosted by Dax Shepard, but I haven't heard any updates as of late.
Title: Re: Press Your Luck Returns!
Post by: imhomerjay on February 25, 2019, 09:16:18 PM
CBS and NBC desperately need to build a prime time game show line-up like ABC has.

Actually they don't. They have their own summer strategies, and have done decently enough with their respective approaches. CBS can still count on Big Brother to be a reliable performer in the key demo, chewing up nice chunks of the schedule. Their summer original programming has fared less well of late, but they also have a stock of procedurals that can deliver decent enough results on a second...or third....go around.

America's Got Talent likewise chugs along at NBC, while American Ninja Warrior is a utility player they can lean on.

Just because ABC found a niche, for a couple of nights on the schedule, doesn't mean it is necessary nor advisable, for the competition to follow suit.

And as for Fox, they had Beat Shazam, though I have not read one way or another that I can recall about a third season. They also had Love Connection...however you want to classify it. On the radar, they have Mental Samurai coming up...so they are not devoid of games.
Title: Re: Press Your Luck Returns!
Post by: tpir04 on February 25, 2019, 09:19:58 PM
NBC also had The Wall, a Plinko-type game. It was supposedly renewed for a third season, but no new info has surfaced.
Title: Re: Press Your Luck Returns!
Post by: JayC on February 25, 2019, 10:48:52 PM
And as for Fox, they had Beat Shazam, though I have not read one way or another that I can recall about a third season. They also had Love Connection...however you want to classify it. On the radar, they have Mental Samurai coming up...so they are not devoid of games.
Beat Shazam was renewed for a third season last August- https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/beat-shazam-renewed-season-3-jamie-foxx-1202912557/ (https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/beat-shazam-renewed-season-3-jamie-foxx-1202912557/)
Title: Re: Press Your Luck Returns!
Post by: jaywilliams on February 26, 2019, 09:48:56 PM
Actually they don't. They have their own summer strategies, and have done decently enough with their respective approaches. CBS can still count on Big Brother to be a reliable performer in the key demo, chewing up nice chunks of the schedule. Their summer original programming has fared less well of late, but they also have a stock of procedurals that can deliver decent enough results on a second...or third....go around.

America's Got Talent likewise chugs along at NBC, while American Ninja Warrior is a utility player they can lean on.

Just because ABC found a niche, for a couple of nights on the schedule, doesn't mean it is necessary nor advisable, for the competition to follow suit.

And as for Fox, they had Beat Shazam, though I have not read one way or another that I can recall about a third season. They also had Love Connection...however you want to classify it. On the radar, they have Mental Samurai coming up...so they are not devoid of games.
First of all, BB, AGT, ANW and MS, along with Survivor are all reality shows, not game shows. same for The Masked Singer is also considered a reality show. There is a far difference between a reality show and a game show.
Thank you for reminding me about Beat Shazam on Fox, which is returning for season 3 and they had Love Connection, which has no word or news from Fox on a renewal for a third season. I totally forgot about those shows. My apologies.
Title: Re: Press Your Luck Returns!
Post by: jaywilliams on February 26, 2019, 09:51:48 PM
NBC also had The Wall, a Plinko-type game. It was supposedly renewed for a third season, but no new info has surfaced.
My thinking is that season 3 of The Wall will air in the summer but NBC has made no announcement or confirmation on this as of yet, same with another season of Hollywood Game Night, but again nothing official said by the peacock network.
Title: Re: Press Your Luck Returns!
Post by: JayC on February 26, 2019, 10:40:08 PM
First of all, BB, AGT, ANW and MS, along with Survivor are all reality shows, not game shows. same for The Masked Singer is also considered a reality show. There is a far difference between a reality show and a game show.
No one said they were, the point is BB, AGT, and ANW take up their respective networks' summer blocks and there's no reason for them to ditch them in favor of traditional game shows as long as they're successful.
Title: Re: Press Your Luck Returns!
Post by: Flerbert419 on February 26, 2019, 11:51:56 PM
My thinking is that season 3 of The Wall will air in the summer but NBC has made no announcement or confirmation on this as of yet, same with another season of Hollywood Game Night, but again nothing official said by the peacock network.

It's pretty clear over the last few weeks that you're blatantly making stuff up at this point, but in case anybody is following along there's actually 10 episodes (http://thefutoncritic.com/news/2018/03/19/nbc-orders-sixth-season-of-jane-lynch-hosted-hollywood-game-night-130014/12454/) of HGN that still have yet to air.
Title: Re: Press Your Luck Returns!
Post by: jaywilliams on February 27, 2019, 07:44:52 PM
It's pretty clear over the last few weeks that you're blatantly making stuff up at this point, but in case anybody is following along there's actually 10 episodes (http://thefutoncritic.com/news/2018/03/19/nbc-orders-sixth-season-of-jane-lynch-hosted-hollywood-game-night-130014/12454/) of HGN that still have yet to air.
Thank you for reminding ,e about the 10 remaining episodes of the current season of HGN, I again forgot about that.