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Post by newt on Nov 5, 2018 20:04:17 GMT -5
Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! has been renewed through the 2022-2023 season. That season will be the nighttime, syndicated Wheel’s 40th anniversary. Pat and Vanna’s contract runs through 2021-2022.
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Post by WarioSajak on Nov 10, 2018 16:45:22 GMT -5
variety.com/2018/tv/news/wheel-of-fortune-jeopardy-abc-fox-cbs-1203019794/Based on the above article, the Fox O&O's made an offer to CBS Television Distribution for Wheel and Jeopardy! that was larger than what the ABC O&O's were currently paying, forcing ABC's group to make an increased offer (albeit still lower than the Fox group's) to keep the duo. CBS-TD opted to stick with the ABC group.
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Post by MarioGS on Nov 13, 2018 11:52:28 GMT -5
variety.com/2018/tv/news/wheel-of-fortune-jeopardy-abc-fox-cbs-1203019794/Based on the above article, the Fox O&O's made an offer to CBS Television Distribution for Wheel and Jeopardy! that was larger than what the ABC O&O's were currently paying, forcing ABC's group to make an increased offer (albeit still lower than the Fox group's) to keep the duo. CBS-TD opted to stick with the ABC group. Thank goodness for that. Since Wheel is on at 7:30 ET/6:30 CT in the NYC and Chicago markets, the last thing they would need is the huge ratings drop from being pre-empted by FOX NFL pregames every week. Wheel airs on 7 of the 8 ABC O&O's and Jeopardy! airs on all 8. The only exception is in the Houston market, where Wheel airs on CBS, and J! only recently moved from there to their ABC station. In the top 10 North American Nielsen markets, Wheel is seen on ABC in 6 of them (NYC, LA, Chicago, Philly, San Fran, DC - all but DC are O&O's). Now, seeing that ABC cares about Wheel so much... can they please commission a special primetime edition of Wheel and remove its distinction as the only major game show that's never done primetime? |
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Post by Bryce L. on Nov 13, 2018 12:46:36 GMT -5
Now, seeing that ABC cares about Wheel so much... can they please commission a special primetime edition of Wheel and remove its distinction as the only major game show that's never done primetime? And while they're at it, can they hire someone not named Harry Friedman to produce it? I don't trust him to not botch a primetime edition. |
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Post by WarioSajak on Nov 13, 2018 17:00:02 GMT -5
Now, seeing that ABC cares about Wheel so much... can they please commission a special primetime edition of Wheel and remove its distinction as the only major game show that's never done primetime? And while they're at it, can they hire someone not named Harry Friedman to produce it? I don't trust him to not botch a primetime edition. Given how the show's been presenting and promoting itself for the past decade, all they'd have to do is tape a normal episode and air it in primetime. In all honesty, I wouldn't be against a primetime series being an hour (as so many of them are) so long as the game structure's built off of Wheel's previously-established hour-long format, especially given that the alternative would be either two half-hour games bolted together or the standard 30-minute format being padded with gimmicks and other assorted ways of farting around. |
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Post by Bryce L. on Nov 13, 2018 17:49:04 GMT -5
In all honesty, I wouldn't be against a primetime series being an hour (as so many of them are) so long as the game structure's built off of Wheel's previously-established hour-long format. This I'd love to see fleshed out... though you'd need a new "hook" to the "Head-to-Head" round, given that, in the 1975-1976 episodes, the big draw of that was playing it for cash. Seeing as the show's played for cash full-time (in nighttime at least) since 1987, that sort of falls on its face here. As for me, I'd have the two "preliminary" games using the normal $2,500/$3,500/$3,500/$5,000 structure, and the final round having a top value of $10,000 (the gold-glitter reverse of the old $10,000 Wedge would be perfect for this). Have the prize wedge for that round be something with a minimum of $15,000 (doesn't have to be a car, but probably would be, knowing Wheel). Have the Million Dollar envelope on the Bonus Wheel by default (and a bare minimum of $50,000 for winning). ...especially given that the alternative would be either two half-hour games bolted together... Given this is precisely what they do with Match Game and The $100,000 Pyramid (and I think ditto for Celebrity Phallic Family Feud and To Tell The Truth, but I can't swear to those), this is exactly what I'd expect, realistically. |
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Post by WarioSajak on Nov 13, 2018 23:02:32 GMT -5
...especially given that the alternative would be either two half-hour games bolted together... Given this is precisely what they do with Match Game and The $100,000 Pyramid (and I think ditto for Celebrity Phallic Family Feud and To Tell The Truth, but I can't swear to those), this is exactly what I'd expect, realistically. episodes are definitely two separate games bolted together. Not sure about Truth, though. |
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Post by MarioGS on Nov 14, 2018 9:29:44 GMT -5
And while they're at it, can they hire someone not named Harry Friedman to produce it? I don't trust him to not botch a primetime edition. Given how the show's been presenting and promoting itself for the past decade, all they'd have to do is tape a normal episode and air it in primetime. Nah, I'm sure they'd at least make the Prize Puzzle trip worth $20,000.  |
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Post by StrangerCoug on Nov 20, 2018 13:44:45 GMT -5
I'm in the camp that an hour episode would realistically be essentially two "half hour" episodes together, really. It'd be cool if they'd up the budget on the Wheel values in primetime (I don't like the narrow $500-$900 range for non-top-dollar values), but I'm not giving my hopes up on that, either.
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