Confirmed: No remote for (at least) Season 33

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Sigh... seriously, guys? Taking a quick look at the History Wiki, Wheel has traveled at least once every season since at least Season 9 (possibly earlier, but I couldn't find a record of travel in Season 8). So we're going to be chucking an almost 25-year streak right into the bin. Thanks for that.

Granted, it is more expensive to travel to Hawaii than pretty much anywhere else in the U.S., but they've done it before and still managed to book trips for seasons after that. Plus, where is all the money going that Wheel should be raking in for all of the sponsored weeks we've been plastered with? We had the Banquet week, the Sandals week, TWO Disney weeks... surely Wheel should be getting some kind of kickbacks for whoring themselves out to all these sponsors?

I can understand not wanting to do a really big trip right after the Hawaii run, but something like a quick little jaunt back to Vegas for a couple weeks shouldn't cost TOO much. Even though I've complained in the past about Vegas being a bit overused of late, I'd still take more of that over not traveling at all.
Or how about San Francisco? It's still in California, but it's at least a change from Culver City.

I know that they have to keep to a tight budget and all, but if Wheel wants to maintain the interest of their fanbase, they need to make sure to keep up at least the appearance of doing new and exciting things. Raising the Wheel minimum to $500 has made maingame spins boring because we're limited to a $500-$900 range, barring gimmick spaces and top dollar. Raising the Bonus Round minimum to $32,000 has made THOSE spins boring (so much so that even your average Joe FreePlay has been calling out the overload of $32,000 repeatedly on social media). The puzzle writing has been repetitive at best and incoherent at worst, not to mention almost completely out of touch with most current events/pop culture. And now we're going to be stuck at home base for 39 straight weeks of the same old, same old routine?

Wheel staff, I've watched your show as much as I've been able to my entire life, and even I'm starting to get turned off a bit by all of these maneuvers. If you want to remain on or near the top of the ratings heap as you have been, you're going to have to recapture that "wow" factor that you used to have. On an average night, the current show is just not that exciting most of the time. Sure, there are nights where somebody makes an impressive viral solve or calls a big multiple on top dollar and rings up a big score, but those are few and far between. Even the diehard fans are beginning to lose interest, which normally does not bode well for viewership as a whole.

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WHAT?!?! Wheel will probably NEVER be the same for the coming seasons...

There just seem to be too many ways to say Wheel will never be the same as it was in past seasons. Each one seems minor at first, but how much longer can the frog stand the heat?

I don't consider myself a pessimist, but I'd have to say it's 99.5% confirmed at this point. I've now heard it directly from two people who work for Wheel, plus Jim is normally one of the first people to make public the news of the next remote at late-season tapings. He mentioned the S31 Vegas tapings at the S30 NYC tapings and mentioned this season's Hawaii tapings during some S31 tapings (I believe Joseph from College Week reported this first). I have not heard any reports of such information from people who have been at S32 tapings, unless anybody here wants to say otherwise...

I fully acknowledge that it's a business. But how many consider the risks of not spending the money a certain way? Really, it's only about as predictable as whether a video is going to go viral from its first view.

I wouldn't be surprised if they went without a road show for just one season, and then they bring it back the next one. It's just scarcity in business. You take away what the audience wants, and then they come running back.

Well, for the fans it's probably disappointing, but if they can't do it for money, we must accept it and understand it. This season has been the first that I've seen since the first day, and in my opinion... Yes, it's cool to see another set, with a bigger audience... But the show itself is the same. Probably for you is more disappointing because you could be in the audience depending on how far or near the tapings are from you.

whammy007 To this date, and with only two shows remaining, the show has awarded $11,033,305 (and think about it, we could have summed another million). I don't know how much was awarded in S31, but I could say you that now is quite more common to see rounds won for more than $5,000 than last season.

Well, if they gotta do it, they gotta do it. Yeah, it's saddening to know, but I'm more indifferent than disappointed. Even so, all I can do is hope that it proves to be a decision that fans will be able to accept because regardless of what it takes, all I want is for the show to go on.

How often has Jeopardy! been doing remotes?