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Studio 33 - Price is Right Discussion => The TALK Is Right => Topic started by: rn on May 12, 2021, 09:50:43 PM
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From FB: https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=196422335638527&set=a.167712925176135
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I haven't gone through the whole thread on Facebook, but is there any way you can describe the spoiler without actually spoiling anything? I guess my question is - what exactly is being spoiled?
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The link itself is just a picture posted to Facebook by Rachel, showing her, Drew, George, and James in a selfie-type pose.
The closest thing I can see to a spoiler is that you can see a few contestants and possibly some staff members in the background. The picture looks like it was taken during a stopdown in taping, so I guess the contestants are the spoilers?
I can see no games or outcomes in the photo, and Rachel's comment on the photo was, "Season 49 has come to an end! My 18th season".
I didn't see any spoilers in the comments, either. I guess better safe than sorry??
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So if this wraps up Rachel's 18th season, could Rachel possibly be the second longest-running model in the CBS version? Could she have outlasted Dian Parkinson's tenure by the time this season finale airs? I believe she's definitely outlasted Holly Hallstrom.
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No spoilers for me either. At least I didn't feel like any outcomes were disclosed (inadvertently).
So if this wraps up Rachel's 18th season, could Rachel possibly be the second longest-running model in the CBS version? Could she have outlasted Dian Parkinson's tenure by the time this season finale airs? I believe she's definitely outlasted Holly Hallstrom.
If she isn't, she's very close. For what it's worth, Rachel actually finished her 19th season. 18 full seasons but she made her first appearance toward the end of Season 31. By the way, Holly's tenure exceeds Dian's. If you want to factor in her very brief absence in Season 12, that is fair enough. Nonetheless, Holly's run occurs throughout 20 different seasons while Dian's occurs over 19 different seasons. In full, like Rachel, Dian & Holly have been apart of the show for 18 full seasons (not including Holly's brief hiatus in 1983-1984)
There was discussion on that elsewhere not too long ago (either in Discord or in a different thread, possibly both; I brought it up in at least once). People thought that Rachel already passed Dian, but that wasn't accurate at the time. The longer seasons are a factor, but Rachel will clearly be the 2nd longest tenured model & 3rd longest tenured "main cast member" sometime early in 2022
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Related to such, I understand that the end of Season 49 also marks the end of a long-term staffer’s tenure.
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Was that long-term staffer who just retired named Stan Blitz? That's the only staffer that comes to my mind when I think of long-term staffers.
If memory serves correctly, Mr. Blitz may have been with the show since 1979. If true, that means he's been with the show for 42 years. That's an incredible run for a staffer, and I think he was destined to retire sooner or later.
Aside from Stan Blitz, Adam Sandler and Rachel Reynolds, what other staff from the Bob Barker era were still with the show during Season 49?
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Stan is the only person that comes to mind. Unless it's Gina Edwards Nyman, that long term staffer could mean someone that hasn't been on the show as long as Mr. Blitz. Maybe there's someone I'm forgetting or am unaware about; I doubt Adam Sandler is moving on and I don't know if someone joining the show in 2008 would be considered long-term
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Obviously this is all speculation on my end, what else is there to talk about at the moment?, but I wonder, if it is Stan, if he knows audiences aren't coming back next season and was hoping they would so he could do what he loves to do best one final time and decided to call it a career now.
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Why wouldn't audiences come back next season? As of right now, they are allowed to be at 50% capacity. Who knows how much better it will be by the time they start filming season 50.
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Why wouldn't audiences come back next season? As of right now, they are allowed to be at 50% capacity. Who knows how much better it will be by the time they start filming season 50.
Just speculating, also Let's Make a Deal has a casting notice out for audience members so unless that's for the at home contestants you'd have to wonder if they'll do another season without audience.
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Stan and Gina are the two current staff members with the most seniority. Adam, who joined TPIR in the 1990s, is the third most senior. After that, the next most senior staff member is Evelyn, who joined in 2012.
Staff members (the folks who work in the office to put the show together) are differentiated from talent (host, announcer, and models) and crew members (who generally only report to the studio on the days the show is taping). It would not surprise me to learn that there are crew members who have been there since before 2012. As used in this analysis, seniority is based on continuous service.
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Another possibility: could it be possible that longtime model Rachel Reynolds may have decided to resign after 18 full seasons? If you've noticed over the last few years, her appearances may have been slowly dwindling, and this season she wasn't on the show as much as the other four active models were. I am thinking that, if she decided to leave the show after such a long tenure, she may have realized her modelling career may have been winding down by this point, and as a result, may have prompted her decision to end her run while there's a chance.
Rachel will be 39 in November. But of course, there have been models aged 40+ who were on the show. Amber Lancaster is one of them, and she is still actively on the show.
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I guess it's possible. Not probable, but possible. An exit from Rachel doesn't change the fact that a staffer is still on the way out. So, say it's Stan that's calling it quits. That would mean both Rachel and Stan would exit to conclude a successful run on one of, if not the best gameshows of all time.
I'd actually be shocked if Rachel decided to leave. Your reasons are valid. I think she would want to spend time with her family which is more important and a bigger deal than anything on the show. IMO, I don't think she'd want to leave after this season given everything that's happened and the (positive looking) aftermath. Maybe next year or the year after to get her to 20 years
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I can't see it being Rachel, why leave? She works what, 2-3 days a week twice a month and 3 months off during the summer? I am sure she gets plenty of family time, modeling at the price is right is a very good gig I can't see her leaving especially since she is model #1 and making good money as well I'm sure
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I haven't gone through the whole thread on Facebook, but is there any way you can describe the spoiler without actually spoiling anything? I guess my question is - what exactly is being spoiled?
Rachel appearing in the episode is a spoiler itself since the series has not used the same models every day in about 19 years.
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Knowing who is modeling on a given episode beforehand isn't really a spoiler since it doesn't reveal any games played, results, or something major like a set change.
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Knowing who is modeling on a given episode beforehand isn't really a spoiler since it doesn't reveal any games played, results, or something major like a set change.
ITA. Maybe things would be ruined if there was a prediction game guessing who's going to model on a particular show. Other than that, it's not a big deal. Personnel is typically an issue on Competitive reality (Survivor, TAR, American Idol etc). On Price, the only thing that would suck is gameplay, results, what's being played, and so on & so forth. While it's likely obvious that Rachel will be featured on the finale, a casual viewer that didn't read the contents of the link could speculate that she might not be on but be present. Speaking of Rachel, and her future...
I can't see it being Rachel, why leave? She works what, 2-3 days a week twice a month and 3 months off during the summer? I am sure she gets plenty of family time, modeling at the price is right is a very good gig I can't see her leaving especially since she is model #1 and making good money as well I'm sure
Yeah, the only way she'd leave in 2021 is if she were ended up getting kicked out. That's barring something else unfortunate that would result in an exit. Of course if something awesome came her way that was better then that's a different story. That, and I think we'd know about it prior to an exit. When Chantel left in 1999, that was known, but I can't remember if I found out in a spoiler or in the media, but it was in May that the news dropped.
Any job that pays great, gives someone a ton of TV airtime, and has those hours is perfect, ITA. Summers AND the winter holidays off annually is more than perfect!
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Have we figured out which “long time staffer” is leaving?
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according to Randy West, it's Stan Blitz that hung it up https://www.facebook.com/tvrandywest/posts/10226456638427176
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That confirmation breaks my heart, but nonetheless what a great career for Mr. Blitz. As mentioned, he was likely going to retire soon eventually, but I figured that he would've stuck around for the landmark 50th season. Given the content of that post, it isn't surprising that Stan is calling it quits.
By the way, I do not mean that as fact; it's just my opinion. I'd bet that he retired because it's time to do so before betting on him exiting over how they're proceeding with how they select their contestants.
As mentioned elsewhere, the contestant selection process or one similar to what was done in Season 49 is probably one of the things that is being upheld regardless of how normal things get going forward. Apparently they've been doing that prior to the pandemic
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As mentioned elsewhere, the contestant selection process or one similar to what was done in Season 49 is probably one of the things that is being upheld regardless of how normal things get going forward. Apparently they've been doing that prior to the pandemic
As one of the 10,000 or so people who actually stood in a line in 2020 to attend a taping, you're going to have to elaborate more on what they were doing before COVID. I definitely didn't fill out an application asking for my interests.
That's a shame for Mr. Blitz; I know he had many years of history on the show, and he seemed like a great guy both times he interviewed me. I wish him good luck on whatever endeavors he goes to next.
also 8 years old instead of 18 years old? Are they expecting a fourth-grader to fill out that form, or what?
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If I'm correct- they did have some contestants from around the country in contestant searches at locations- they used the Meadows Casino here as one location. From what I recall- they may have flown out 2 contestants for a show, 1 was chosen.
The form attached is roughly the same one they had last summer/fall for season 49. I still believe in my heart- and logically- they want some sort of audience, but being realistic- the way it was done before- the lines, the packed studio...is simply not going to happen.
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As one of the 10,000 or so people who actually stood in a line in 2020 to attend a taping, you're going to have to elaborate more on what they were doing before COVID. I definitely didn't fill out an application asking for my interests.
My comment was based off of what other people said in terms of the process pre-covid (and in general); sorry if it came out as something I knew happened as it relates to the casting process. I put the word apparently ahead of everything else in an attempt to indicate that I learned of what TPTB did or didn't do when I should've said, "According to what other people said elsewhere, they did what they did pre-Pandemic."
My apologies with that. Given that you were apart of it just over a year ago, I guess it's comforting that they may have stuck to tradition before Covid.
BTW, speaking of casting, that image from that post looked like something you'd see for Survivor and The Amazing Race when it came to casting for their shows