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Studio 33 - Price is Right Discussion => The TALK Is Right => Topic started by: Madskills2 on February 02, 2023, 08:27:49 PM
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Drew carey likely has 5 years left at most before he retires as he's getting up there in age.
Who would you like to see replace him?
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70 years old won't be that old by game show host standards.
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Drew has like 20 years before he'll be as old as Bob when he retired, and currently isn't showing signs of slowing down.
Let's discuss this when the announcement comes, thanks. Preferably not for a lot longer than 5 years from now.
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It's going to be Victoria Justice in 2042. You heard it from me first!
All "joking" aside, I'd be surprised, probably shocked if Drew called it quits within 5 years. It's still too soon to bet that he'll host another 20 years, but I feel like another 10 years is reasonable enough.
More important, I think (I'm with pretty much everyone else in saying that) it's too soon to speculate a replacement unless Carey was miserable and/or got bored. The guys has come a long way & really is in the best shape of his life IMO. I didn't expect it 15 years ago, but as mentioned in chat not too long ago, there isn't anyone on Planet Earth that can do a better job than Drew Carey as TPIR host today.
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70 years old won't be that old by game show host standards.
Unlike Bob though, he starred in a scripted show which takes a lot more out of people than hosting a gameshow with a set routine.
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It's going to be Victoria Justice in 2042. You heard it from me first!
All "joking" aside, I'd be surprised, probably shocked if Drew called it quits within 5 years. It's still too soon to bet that he'll host another 20 years, but I feel like another 10 years is reasonable enough.
More important, I think (I'm with pretty much everyone else in saying that) it's too soon to speculate a replacement unless Carey was miserable and/or got bored. The guys has come a long way & really is in the best shape of his life IMO. I didn't expect it 15 years ago, but as mentioned in chat not too long ago, there isn't anyone on Planet Earth that can do a better job than Drew Carey as TPIR host today.
Physically he is in the best shape. I'm a bit more worried about him mentally as for people who starred in an intensive comedic sitcom like drew, they tend to not be in business as long as pure game show or talk show hosts.
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It's way too soon to speculate. I can see Drew going at least another 10 years. We don't know who'll be in the running by then.
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James Corden
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I'm going to be that person and say "nobody" - when Drew retires the show will end. Relax - that's probably still many years away.
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I'm going to be that person and say "nobody" - when Drew retires the show will end. Relax - that's probably still many years away.
This show will last forever and remain long after we pass away
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James Corden
It would likely see a ratings decline as james corden is a polarizing comedian
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It will probably be someone we've yet to hear about or is even 'famous' yet as Drew is many many years away from retirement. I wouldn't even be thinking about that now and just enjoy the show for what it is now.
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It will probably be someone we've yet to hear about or is even 'famous' yet as Drew is many many years away from retirement. I wouldn't even be thinking about that now and just enjoy the show for what it is now.
With all due respect, we won't know 100% sure when he will retire. I just made this prediction based on similar trajectories by other hosts that were turned from actors
I bet there were so many people assuring others trevor noah would be the host of daily show for many years only to quit last december.
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The difference is that The Daily Show's ratings have been in the toilet ever since Jon Stewart left. TPiR, while declining along with the rest of network TV as a whole, has maintained a very solid place at or near the top of the daytime ratings for a long time now.
Also consider that Bob voluntarily retiring from hosting was very much an anomaly. Most other game show hosts throughout history simply had their last show canceled and just couldn't land another gig, or switched genres/industries entirely. Barring some unforeseen debilitating health condition, there's simply no reason for Drew to consider retirement at all, especially given the relative lack of opportunities in showbiz for most 60+-year-old men...
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The difference is that The Daily Show's ratings have been in the toilet ever since Jon Stewart left. TPiR, while declining along with the rest of network TV as a whole, has maintained a very solid place at or near the top of the daytime ratings for a long time now.
Also consider that Bob voluntarily retiring from hosting was very much an anomaly. Most other game show hosts throughout history simply had their last show canceled and just couldn't land another gig, or switched genres/industries entirely. Barring some unforeseen debilitating health condition, there's simply no reason for Drew to consider retirement at all, especially given the relative lack of opportunities in showbiz for most 60+-year-old men...
I hope you are right as I enjoyed drew carey.
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If Drew retires between now and ~2035: Who knows. Absolutely no one knows who will be available if and when it happens, who the powers the be want, etc. - and I don't think absolutely anyone would have predicted Drew would become as good as he is and most would have never guessed him for the show.
Post-2035: Time to say the quiet part out loud: Linear TV (the traditional local affiliates, broadcast networks, and cable networks that you've been watching for decades) is in MASSIVE trouble. There is an entire raft of data saying one thing: TV in it's current form is dying. Cable channels have shut down, syndication is a graveyard, and the last bastion of viewership, live sports, are slowly migrating to streaming. Days of our Lives has already left for Peacock and I suspect will get cancelled in the next year or two. Price is, in many markets, currently out-rating a lot of PRIMETIME series, and CBS is slightly more invested in the old model than the others, so I think it's not going to whatever they rename Paramount+ next, any time soon, BUT broadcast is in massive trouble when the next NFL TV deal expires in ten years. And so far,
I have a nagging feeling that if Drew hangs on another decade or so, the show will just end, at least for a time.
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If Drew retires between now and ~2035: Who knows. Absolutely no one knows who will be available if and when it happens, who the powers the be want, etc. - and I don't think absolutely anyone would have predicted Drew would become as good as he is and most would have never guessed him for the show.
Post-2035: Time to say the quiet part out loud: Linear TV (the traditional local affiliates, broadcast networks, and cable networks that you've been watching for decades) is in MASSIVE trouble. There is an entire raft of data saying one thing: TV in it's current form is dying. Cable channels have shut down, syndication is a graveyard, and the last bastion of viewership, live sports, are slowly migrating to streaming. Days of our Lives has already left for Peacock and I suspect will get cancelled in the next year or two. Price is, in many markets, currently out-rating a lot of PRIMETIME series, and CBS is slightly more invested in the old model than the others, so I think it's not going to whatever they rename Paramount+ next, any time soon, BUT broadcast is in massive trouble when the next NFL TV deal expires in ten years. And so far,
I have a nagging feeling that if Drew hangs on another decade or so, the show will just end, at least for a time.
Streaming lately could be dying out. Studios are cutting back investments on streamers and if too many close, linear tv could end up surviving
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Post-2035: Time to say the quiet part out loud: Linear TV (the traditional local affiliates, broadcast networks, and cable networks that you've been watching for decades) is in MASSIVE trouble.
Post 2035, local affiliates and broadcast networks are in trouble. Cable/satellite is just dead. :P
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James Corden is a interesting pick. It took me awhile to see who will be around now but Rose McIver from ghost (so same network) would be interesting. but listed above it reminds me how Jimmy Kimmel did millionaire about a year ago and a formulated talkshow host (by formulated i mean The traditional beginning middle and end 1 hour or less ones) might be decent choice particularly from a the less hard hitting 'news of the day' ones, maybe the host from Challenge USA might be available it really depends if they are considering going in network or open with out of network talent.
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Post-2035: Time to say the quiet part out loud: Linear TV (the traditional local affiliates, broadcast networks, and cable networks that you've been watching for decades) is in MASSIVE trouble. There is an entire raft of data saying one thing: TV in it's current form is dying. Cable channels have shut down, syndication is a graveyard, and the last bastion of viewership, live sports, are slowly migrating to streaming. Days of our Lives has already left for Peacock and I suspect will get cancelled in the next year or two. Price is, in many markets, currently out-rating a lot of PRIMETIME series, and CBS is slightly more invested in the old model than the others, so I think it's not going to whatever they rename Paramount+ next, any time soon, BUT broadcast is in massive trouble when the next NFL TV deal expires in ten years.
I've noticed the same things as well.
I suspect that talk shows and courtroom shows, in the vein of "Judge Judy," etc., will make up the bulk of most of what you see on what's left of daytime television. I've no idea on how much longer the remaining soap operas – "The Bold and the Beautiful," "Young and the Restless" and "General Hospital" – will hang on. You might be able to catch an old favorite, but to say that the old favorites are shows like "Friends," "Frasier," etc. is something of a misnomer to us who grew up watching shows like "I Dream Of Jeannie," "The Brady Bunch," "The Andy Griffith Show," "The Beverly Hillbillies," etc., or the 1980s cartoons (the original "Transfomers," "Heathcliff," etc.) after school.
Streaming seems to be the wave of the future. I can't name any one show because I am still not on that technology, but I know a lot of people are and this seems to be the preferred method of debuting new shows. Whether they're worth watching I can't comment.
As far as the original question at hand, who'll take over for Drew Carey should that day come, I agree ... the old girl would be put to rest and we'd have reruns. Perhaps at some point in the future, we'll even have an on-demand type of technology that will allow viewers to watch any episode in the show's history at any time (including – one can only hope – episodes where furs were prizes); by that, I mean a technology other than YouTube, where Fremantle Media or some other vendor would upload the episodes and we'd use an app – subscription or otherwise – to access the shows.
Brian
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This discussion amuses me, only in that it was the exact same words when we were discussing Bob's retirement from the show. "No one can replace him." "I'll bet they just cancel the show for a few years and bring it back some other way." "The TV landscape has changed a lot since 1972!"
Groundhog day was last week...
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The general sentiment that we could be in the twilight years for linear TV as we know it seem spot on. We’re talking a decade or more, give or take, but not more than a generation. That renders this conversation somewhat moot barring, as noted, an unexpected development in the near term.
Streamers are having growing pains. Much as there was way too much original content flooding cable networks maybe a decade or so ago, that’s happening with streamers. Remember when TNT had piles of originals? USA? Many others too numerous to detail? (I do, because a former job involved tracking lots of that, so I know what happened as it crashed.)
Netflix, Disney, Paramount…they all can’t just spend endlessly forever on content. They’ll figure out what works, and some won’t make it. HBO Max already looks to be getting scaled down to near nothing, merged with what is left of the multitude of Discovery networks’ content. At some point, they’ll get the costs more aligned, with fewer huge tentpole shows.
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Move Wayne Brady to Price and have Jonathan take over Deal.
You can't really predict who will take over Price when Drew retires because Drew was a unexpected choice.
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Ken Jennings.
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...but as mentioned in chat not too long ago, there isn't anyone on Planet Earth that can do a better job than Drew Carey as TPIR host today.
I'm glad Drew has such loyal fans. Really.
But for some of us, perhaps of a certain age, the mind absolutely boggles that anyone genuinely believes a statement like that.
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I'm glad Drew has such loyal fans. Really.
But for some of us, perhaps of a certain age, the mind absolutely boggles that anyone genuinely believes a statement like that.
There were people who could have done better than Barker. There are people who could be better than Carey. There is always someone out there. But the current occupant of the seat is outstanding, and deserves that credit.
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I have enjoyed Drew far more than Bob. Far more. By the end, he was phoning it in and Drew is a breath of fresh air. He is a comedian with quick wit. He can pick up on things and make fun with it. Keeps the audience at home, in studio, himself and the Contestants happy and laughing. He wants everybody to win. He feels their pain. He never talks down Contestants or makes them feel like he is more important. Ratings tell us Drew is succeeding. For 15 years now.
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I’m not sure where speculation begins and absurdity ends with this question, so I won’t go near touching the ‘who’ or ‘when’ angle of Carey’s eventual retirement other than it probably won’t be anytime soon. The Price is Right remains hugely successful in a dying daytime TV landscape — much like a GNC or Bath & Body Works can usually be found in a dead mall, you can’t kill it. It’s there. It serves its purpose. And just as when the developer decides to demolish the mall — and those remaining stores relocate as long as they’re still getting business — so shall The Price is Right live on for so long as there is an audience and it is profitable through advertising and/or streaming subscription revenue, no matter who the host is or where its home resides. Period.
If you had asked me 10 years ago when I joined the board (man that’s really been a whole decade ago, huh?), I probably would have been far more pessimistic about the show’s future. 1) Even then, the writing was on the wall for traditional TV. The future wasn’t yet clear, but ‘cord cutting’ was already very much a thing, and it seemed like only a matter of time before the TV landscape would change drastically. And it has, though not in the same ways I would have speculated then, much less five years ago. 2) I still wasn’t fully warmed up to Drew. I tried. Season 42 was the first season I had made watching the show a priority since S35, and slowly but surely, I would grow to greatly enjoy and appreciate Drew and the show as it is today. But as my history here probably tells, I wasn’t nearly as fond of ‘the new way of doing things’ back then, including Drew as host, and I definitely wouldn’t have guessed he would still be hosting 10 years later, much less me enjoying it (including him) as much as I enjoyed watching Bob when I was younger! If my opinion has changed this much during that time, attempting to have some sort of concept of what the next 10 years or so will hold is pointless.
Finally, suppose the day does come, and Drew gets to retire while the show is still on top, allowing for another change at guard like in 2007. I can guarantee the names I’m seeing tossed around here as a replacement will be about as relevant then as the names that were tossed around before Drew was announced as host are relevant now. I haven’t heard Dave Price or John O’Hurley’s names tossed around here in a long, long time. James Corden? More like ‘James…who?’ if/when Drew retires, seeing he will no longer be employed by CBS soon.
Live for the present. Embrace the future. Our favorite game show is still producing excellent, high quality, exciting, hour-long* shows every weekday throughout its traditional season window. It’s as good as it’s been in a long, long time. If the 1980s were the ‘good ole days’ for the Barker era, so is RIGHT NOW for the Carey era. Don’t worry about what the future holds. It will play out in due time. Enjoy what we have right in front of us in the meantime!
*”Its the fabulous, 38-minute Price is Right!”
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The Price is Right remains hugely successful in a dying daytime TV landscape — much like a GNC or Bath & Body Works can usually be found in a dead mall, you can’t kill it. It’s there. It serves its purpose. And just as when the developer decides to demolish the mall — and those remaining stores relocate as long as they’re still getting business — so shall The Price is Right live on for so long as there is an audience and it is profitable through advertising and/or streaming subscription revenue, no matter who the host is or where its home resides.
Clever. And apt.
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Maybe the next kicker of the Chargers? Not like they haven't tried that before in the game show world.
I feel like Drew has come full circle and won't want to give up the show for a long time, so I'm going to say it's someone too young to be considered at this point. When Drew started the show, he was reluctant to get into the traditions of the show and kind of blew it off. Even when I went in 2013 he spent about 30 seconds with the fans outside film time. Then he slowly came around, and now he's synonymous with The Price is Right. It's satisfying to see that he now genuinely loves the show and its contestants. So (as weird as it is for me to say it) I hope he stays for a long time. He may not reach the records of Barker or even Sajak, but he's definitely earned his place in The Price is Right legacy.
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Live for the present. Embrace the future. Our favorite game show is still producing excellent, high quality, exciting, hour-long* shows every weekday throughout its traditional season window. It’s as good as it’s been in a long, long time. If the 1980s were the ‘good ole days’ for the Barker era, so is RIGHT NOW for the Carey era. Don’t worry about what the future holds. It will play out in due time. Enjoy what we have right in front of us in the meantime!
*”Its the fabulous, 38-minute Price is Right!”
nicely said about living for the present. also yeah they surely chunked a bunch of commercials.
I hope he stays for a long time. He may not reach the records of Barker or even Sajak, but he's definitely earned his place in The Price is Right legacy.
weirdly after hearing this even though completely not the point I would not mind watching price is right with Pat hosting.
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Would be unusual to be sure, although Pat did do Jeopardy very well back in 1997 during the April 1st episode.
I think Pat's low key personality would not be a good fit for Price though. He is 76 currently, which would not necessarily be an issue as Mr. Barker held court until his early 80s.
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What do you think of Rachel new hostess?
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I can't imagine why Pat Sajak is even in the discussion here-- he's much closer to retiring than Drew is right now. The better question is who will be hosting Wheel after Pat retires.
What do you think of Rachel new hostess?
Hmm, that is intriguing. She's been there almost 20 years now so she would at least know the show and the games. I can't say we have seen enough of her presenting to gauge whether she could, but it's an interesting thought at the very least.
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Hmm, that is intriguing. She's been there almost 20 years now so she would at least know the show and the games. I can't say we have seen enough of her presenting to gauge whether she could, but it's an interesting thought at the very least.
That could probably go for any of the current (or, depending on how long it is until the time comes, future) modelling crew members.
It would seem like a logical way to go, as it does avoid some of the issues of training someone totally new, like Drew was.
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I think the Sajak stuff was more of a joke than reality. Or a combination of wishful thinking and something that would be interesting while falling in the line of "no chance it's happening".
I think the reason why Pat was brought up in the first place was just to compare where Drew would stand in terms of the record for the longest tenured host with one show, when Carey is done with Price.
Rachel as the host would be pretty neat to see. As mentioned, she has been there for a couple decades & has a great relationship with the staff. I wouldn't bet one way or another right now, but I agree it's an interesting thought. Say Drew called it quits in a decade. She would be at the perfect age to host if the opportunity was there. However, I imagine she might be too involved with her family to have the time to commit
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I think the reason why Pat was brought up in the first place was just to compare where Drew would stand in terms of the record for the longest tenured host with one show, when Carey is done with Price.
(Emphasized by me.)
Insofar as game shows are concerned, Pat does not currently hold this record -- nor, for that matter, is he even in the top three (or "on the medal podium", to phrase it in another way), who (as far as I am aware) are:
-Don Francisco (Sabado Gigante, approx. 53 years),
-Nicholas Parsons (Just A Minute, approx. 52 years), and
-Mac McGarry (It's Academic, approx. 50 years).
Caveat: As the host of a five-a-week program (the above three were weekly), Pat may very well hold the record in that respect.
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I wonder would they give George a try? He does have hosting experience i don't know if he would be the right fit for the show.
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It's possible, but not probable. I imagine TPTB would pass on hiring from within, going with someone on the outside.
I do think Gray getting a chance would be great, but I wouldn't bet on it. Of course we're far away from that. He might be content with exiting with Carey when that time comes.
BTW, George isn't too much younger than Drew so I figured that they'd get someone that would end up being the face of the show for decades
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Let's be honest, none of us probably have heard of the next host.
Drew Carey arguably made it "big" when he first appeared nationally on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson in 1991. 16 years later he's hosting Price. If 2035 is 12 years away, it's not out of the question the next big name to take over is just barely getting into the business, if at all.
It's almost impossible to speculate who will host if they may not have had their breakout yet.
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Unless another moderator or admin objects, I think this thread has run its course and then some. Drew isn’t retiring anytime soon. If and when he does make such an announcement, then I’m sure speculation will run rampant.
But like I said over a month ago:
Live for the present. Embrace the future. Our favorite game show is still producing excellent, high quality, exciting, hour-long* shows every weekday throughout its traditional season window. It’s as good as it’s been in a long, long time. If the 1980s were the ‘good ole days’ for the Barker era, so is RIGHT NOW for the Carey era. Don’t worry about what the future holds. It will play out in due time. Enjoy what we have right in front of us in the meantime!
*”Its the fabulous, 38-minute Price is Right!”
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