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Studio 33 - Price is Right Discussion => The TALK Is Right => Topic started by: Wayoshi on August 24, 2011, 12:36:46 PM
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Hey everyone, went to the afternoon 8/23 taping as my first taping ever. CJBojangles covered a lot in his report already, but here is what I can add on:
As I put in the title, the most important thing is the audience seats have been refurnished to a mid-dark blue. (No clue how they're going to handle blue to red to blue, this is something they should have done in the June break.) Max capacity has also been lowered as the logo floor in front of the TV has been expanded (not sure if this was confirmed before). There were 250 people or so in (going by priority numbers as they entered the studio) when George started warming up, and they were mostly filling George's side area last. So I'm guessing the max is 300 (as I think I heard here before). I was number 040 (got in line at 10a, about 5-8 people in front of me at the time turned to ~25, plus 12 priority seating due to handicap or leftover taping).
Four seats, the very right (left) two in the first two rows right behind George's podium, were marked off - I think the obstruction issue has been solved.
George really emphasized quick, intelligent bidding in the warm-up. The pre-episode outside was #5545K, 4/29/11, which included Golden Road and a couple instances of really poor bidding - a 00/01/02 situation, a random -01 and going $1 over. I was pleased with this, even if it was a coincidence.
CJBojangles mentioned the 3D TPiR logos in the corner, and said the $'s looked really weird... I don't know about that - the $'s were rotating constantly, and looked really nice.
Drew's sling was hidden inside of his suit. So his right arm is permanently up by his side, but they'll be able to get by any "inconsistencies" unless long-term watchers are looking for it (like us :P). He was pretty normal (for him) hosting still.
Finally, everyone, please stop worrying about contestant's row. Yes, the silver border change is a downgrade, but it's very minor. Everything was very sleek, and the green that FFTEST22 posted was nowhere close to the real - if anything, they touched the screens up even more. (But orange was still the usual harder-to-read one.) I still can't believe how many people judged off of a blurry image.
And yes, this was #5634K. Those going to the afternoon today I guess pick up from last week, and probably will have an airdate very far apart from the morning.
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Well. This is interesting.
Thanks for the report. I'm surprsed they'd change the seats to blue.
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George really emphasized quick, intelligent bidding in the warm-up.
If they want people who can bid intelligently, then it seems they should select people who actually watch the show.
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If they want people who can bid intelligently, then it seems they should select people who actually watch the show.
I know. But after this moment (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMFFGFmn20k) we will most likely never get them again
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Were there any changes as far as games and what not, or was it standard Price?
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I know. But after this moment (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMFFGFmn20k) we will most likely never get them again
That's kind of my point.
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Were there any changes as far as games and what not, or was it standard Price?
Nothing to report on this aspect.
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If they want people who can bid intelligently, then it seems they should select people who actually watch the show.
Have you seen the show's demographics? To hammer home HomerJay's favorite point, it'd be impossible for Mike to simultaneously accomplish both 1) this and 2) selecting contestants not drawing Social Security.
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CJBojangles mentioned the 3D TPiR logos in the corner, and said the $'s looked really weird... I don't know about that - the $'s were rotating constantly, and looked really nice.
Heh, it's funny how the "3D TPiR logo" is the term that's being used since I was the first one to use the term here after seeing the new set for the audience.
But anyways, that makes sense seeing as how it was reported that the "$" was sunken in with the rest of the logo.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v138/CJBojangles/Image2-5.png)
But yeah, that does sound pretty cool. Seems that it will look like an animated gif.
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Whoa, wait. Spinning? They definitely weren't spinning during my taping. Do they still look like my recreation, or have they changed them?
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Finally, everyone, please stop worrying about contestant's row. Yes, the silver border change is a downgrade, but it's very minor. Everything was very sleek, and the green that FFTEST22 posted was nowhere close to the real - if anything, they touched the screens up even more. (But orange was still the usual harder-to-read one.) I still can't believe how many people judged off of a blurry image.
Wait...orange or yellow? 'Cause if you really did mean orange, they may have actually done something right.
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You'll have to point yourself out in the video upload from the episode. :)
I wish I could have gone to the morning episode on the 23rd. That was my birthday. Alas, I have no way to get to LA right now.
Cyclone
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Were the pages still wearing those signature red jackets?
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I attended 3 tapings between 8 and 10 August to air in early November. Set looked great, audience energy & noise were unbelievable, didn't realize that the turntable/showdown stage could move until attending the tapings; none of the reveals for any of the games I saw have changed. Drew is an OK host in person, but he loses something through the TV, especially when referencing things that happened during commercial breaks without explaining them. Two technical problems in the three tapings, one game had no power, one showcase had inaccurate copy; both were retaped and probably won't be shown.
Ticketing situation is thoroughly unacceptable. I was #20 for processing but was the seventh person in line. People denied seats at the previous day's afternoon taping were given priority seating. They showed up around 8:30 am and had their own line, in front of people who were there starting from 12:30 am; felt bad for the folks who had spent the whole night out there just to get pushed out by people who couldn't get to a previous taping early enough. CBS Security was also on a power trip on the 10th, insisting on a single file line on the dirt between the sidewalk and the wall of Television City.
Happy to answer specific questions via private messages.
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@CJBojangles: I'm pretty sure that there is no red/orange around the $ now, that is, where you pushed the layer in in your graphic, they emptied it out.
@SteveG: Sometimes I get pretty color blind... I don't think the color changed or anything from last season. I call the S39 color orange.
@mrbrown: Yes.
@Dietevil: That's interesting, that means a pretty obvious substitute game will come into play... wonder what was up with the SC as well...
As for priority seating, there was a preliminary check throughout the line before they let us enter, and 12 people were allowed to go in early for priority seating. Again, if you're in the first 50 it's pretty much the same now, not a big deal. Also apparently there is some legal reason for the single file thing
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Are they now going by "Good Looks" in determining where you sit? Or has that been abandoned?
Joe
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I think, unfortunately, some of that was going on, at least for the front & center.
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@Wayoshi: Actually, they just cut, waited while the power came on and the game went through its testing sequence, had the audience applaud again and started taping again.
@MrPlinko: I can tell you that they focus on putting matching groups in the middle and front at all costs; groups of 3 or 4 with the same shirt on surrounded CR at every taping I went to. They have the studio seating pre-taped with masking tape marked with the processing number of the first person to go into that row/end of a row. I'm not too sure about the whole good looks thing; I think it is more important to be in a uniform shirted group, even a small one. I'll also add that they tended to put wider people on stage right (and maybe left) because the seats are wider. We had a wide person in our group and were seated at stage right at all 3 tapings (with processing numbers varying between 20, 80 and the lower 200s). I finally got fed up with the same position and *nicely begged to a page for middle seats. He called over whoever was arranging the seating, and we were moved to the 3rd or 4th row in the middle.
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Just adding on something random here...
I am surprised in general that showcase contestants are genuinely surprised when they win. For all of the tapings I went to, it was obvious as soon as the camera cut from the showcase bids who had won by the placement or lack thereof of prizes before the result was revealed. If Contestant A's prizes remain visible on stage, it's a good bet that Contestant A has won (or either contestant has won both). I guess contestants don't notice such things "in the moment".
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@Wayoshi: Actually, they just cut, waited while the power came on and the game went through its testing sequence, had the audience applaud again and started taping again.
How long did it take for the game to load up?
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Less than a minute.
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Just adding on something random here...
I am surprised in general that showcase contestants are genuinely surprised when they win. For all of the tapings I went to, it was obvious as soon as the camera cut from the showcase bids who had won by the placement or lack thereof of prizes before the result was revealed. If Contestant A's prizes remain visible on stage, it's a good bet that Contestant A has won (or either contestant has won both). I guess contestants don't notice such things "in the moment".
It would become more obvious now that if a Showcase winner had previously won a car, they bring that car on stage as well.
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@SteveG: Sometimes I get pretty color blind... I don't think the color changed or anything from last season. I call the S39 color orange.
It hasn't been orange in eight and a half years.
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Heh, it still doesn't seem yellow to me... sorry to get your hopes up, Steve. :P
It's possible they are focusing on big groups / shirts instead. I didn't notice any masking tape since we were seated halfway down from the entrance/exit on the aisle, but I'd believe for sure they made preliminary plans.
This will take several shows of observing to make conclusions
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Are the Asterisks still in front of contestant's row? Did they use any classic music cues?
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Heh, it still doesn't seem yellow to me... sorry to get your hopes up, Steve. :P
I never said anything about hopes. The display is yellow -- that's an indisputable fact. You may not be able to see it that way, and that may be because of issues such as color-blindness that are beyond your control...but whether you can tell it's yellow or not, it's yellow.
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I never said anything about hopes. The display is yellow -- that's an indisputable fact. You may not be able to see it that way, and that may be because of issues such as color-blindness that are beyond your control...but whether you can tell it's yellow or not, it's yellow.
What colour is the door? I considered it yellow as well, but I call the display orange.
Cyclone
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Pasting this in from another thread, you can see the new blue seats in the French Price is Right promo here:
http://www.philippebond.com/blog/
They can be seen about 30 seconds in. I think they look good and fit well with the dark set.
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I'm wondering if the change in color is because the Price production staff wanted them blue or if CBS ordered the chairs to be refurbished and just opted for blue?
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I'm a big fan of blue. So for them changing the seats from red back to blue like what it was is a plus in my book, even if it is not completely the same shade of blue. I saw the video of Philippe Bond and you can see the rotating "$" for a split second. A couple of things I noticed. They redid the floor in the audience, which I thought was rather obvious. But it is also good to have another Goodson-Todman mark back. They put it back at the podium where that guy was sitting at the podium right next to the exit. I do hate that they reduced the seating but I think it looks better than hanging a curtain over unused seats.
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I'm a big fan of blue. So for them changing the seats from red back to blue like what it was is a plus in my book, even if it is not completely the same shade of blue.
I think if it had been lighter, it wouldn't have meshed well with the rest of the set IMO.
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With the change in seat color...does that mean the CBS eye curtains have changed?
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With the change in seat color...does that mean the CBS eye curtains have changed?
Does it matter? You couldn't see them anymore, anyway.
@CJBojangles: I'm pretty sure that there is no red/orange around the $ now, that is, where you pushed the layer in in your graphic, they emptied it out.
What do you mean by this exactly? If the main colours behind the $ are gone, what is there now; can you see the curtains?
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I think he means that on CJ's graphic there looks to be an indented area where the $ sat, but now that's been punched out so the $ can spin completely around without anything behind it. For example:
CJ's graphic looked something like this:
(http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd305/caseyfan25/TPiR%20Season%2040/AudienceLogoS401.jpg)
Whereas the audience logos now look like this:
(http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd305/caseyfan25/TPiR%20Season%2040/AudienceLogoS402.jpg)
You'll notice there was an area shaped out around the $, but that's now been cut out and the $ can spin freely 360 degrees.
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^This, and you can see it in the French promo posted here at 0:30.
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Does it matter? You couldn't see them anymore, anyway.
Well I suppose it really doesn't but I suppose it never hurt to ask.
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remember season 39 premiere? They had the podiums with the dollar sign spinning so?
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remember season 39 premiere? They had the podiums with the dollar sign spinning so?
What does that have to do with the signs in the back of te audience?
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What does that have to do with the signs in the back of te audience?
I think he's saying the spinning dollar looks like that.
Cyclone
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thats what i meant!
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Nicolasdreyer: twice today alone I've seen you post things that confounded the rest of us (first the thing wth the new director, now this), both times because they weren't complete thoughts. With the thread about the director, you just posted what looked like something really random, and here it was something that didn't seem related to what we were talking about. Just a suggestion, but maybe it would be a good idea to expand on things and tell us a little more about what you're thinking? That would make it a lot easier for folks like me to understand what you want to tell us.
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Nicolasdreyer: twice today alone I've seen you post things that confounded the rest of us (first the thing wth the new director, now this), both times because they weren't complete thoughts. With the thread about the director, you just posted what looked like something really random, and here it was something that didn't seem related to what we were talking about. Just a suggestion, but maybe it would be a good idea to expand on things and tell us a little more about what you're thinking? That would make it a lot easier for folks like me to understand what you want to tell us.
The post about Mike confuzzled me. This one was crystal clear.
Cyclone
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Cyclone: it may have been to you, but it wasn't to me until you supplied the missing link. What's obvious to you might not always be so obvious to others. Remember that!
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Cyclone: it may have been to you, but it wasn't to me until you supplied the missing link. What's obvious to you might not always be so obvious to others. Remember that!
That's what I meant, it was crystal clear to me.
Cyclone
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Cyclone: you're missing my point, which was that I was confused by his post, which would not have happened if he'd expanded a bit. Whether you were or weren't confused is irrelevant to the point I was trying to make: when you share complete thoughts instead of just parts of them, it's much easier to understand you!
(Besides, I think we already got that you got it since you supplied the missing link!)
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Cyclone: you're missing my point, which was that I was confused by his post, which would not have happened if he'd expanded a bit. Whether you were or weren't confused is irrelevant to the point I was trying to make: when you share complete thoughts instead of just parts of them, it's much easier to understand you!
(Besides, I think we already got that you got it since you supplied the missing link!)
No, I get your point. It wasn't until he explained on the other one that I understood him, and I didn't question your post at all. Everyone has a posting style, however. I always sign my posts manually instead of using a signature line, for instance. I hope he takes the advice to better explain himself in the future, but if he doesn't, we can't force him to.
Cyclone