archiveThe Price is Right

Normally, we think of a television program being broadcast live or recorded for playback at a later time. 'Live to Tape' is more of the latter.

Featuring a rotating collection of pricing games, 'The Price is Right' has been a high-rated fixture on daytime television for 45 years.

The Showcase Showdown segment of the popular game show isn't what many of you think it is, and I can prove it. I just read an article from one of my favorite magazines, Mental_Floss, a publication that digs up interesting trivia. I grew up watching Bob Barker on The Price...

I believe it's a safe guess on my part that only a narrow splinter of this blog's audience will ever even have heard of Marc Breslow. But to the small group of people who recognize the name, he was a revered man in his field and responsible for setting the...

Game show icon Bob Barker is back on the CBS stage of The Price is Right celebrating his 90th birthday.

Word to the wise: if you file a Worker's Comp claim over a debilitating injury, avoid the temptation to “Come on Down!” This could be one of my favorite stories of the year. CBS affiliate WRAL-TV reports a former Fayetteville, North Carolina, postal carrier who’d claimed she couldn’t lift mail...

“From Television City in Hollywood…” Those words preceded some of the greatest television shows of all time for decades, and today, CBS’s massive studio complex in Hollywood celebrates its 60th anniversary. CBS Television City opened its doors officially on November 15, 1952. Since then, it served as the broadcast studio...

Five years ago today, a major change happened on CBS’s The Price is Right. And things just haven’t been the same since.

They were just words on a script, as Bob Barker put it, but in the care of announcer Johnny Olson, the phrase, “Come on Down!” became a part of Americana. And 40 years ago today, Olson spoke those words for the first time.

When it comes to game shows, I’m pretty old school. Not that this is a bad thing, mind you, because I grew up watching the best of the genre, produced by big names like Goodson-Todman, Barry & Enright, and Bob Stewart, just to name a few. In the 1970s, a...

The game show producer who created The Price is Right, various versions of the Pyramid game and Password, among others, has passed away. Bob Stewart was 91.

A former game show host has landed the announcer gig at television’s longest running game show. George Gray, who previously hosted the syndicated version of The Weakest Link, has been named permanent announcer of The Price is Right, according to a statement by CBS. Gray started his career as a...

Drew Carey, host of CBS’s The Price is Right, is denying a web report that he is suffering from pancreatic and liver cancer. The rumor, quoting an unnamed “secret source,” claims the comedian and emcee is undergoing treatment at the Mayo Clinic. A representative of the show laughed off the rumor...

You’ll see much less of Drew Carey this season on The Price is Right, the show’s 39th. Not because he’s being replaced by another host, but because there’s literally a lot less of him to see.  Since January, the 52-year old host has managed to do what some of us...