stayed on t.v. so flipping long! Its like those shows are immune to ratings wars! Those shows have been on T.V. since before I was born! Pat Sajack and Vanna White are old enough to be my parents! Alex Tribeck and his chia pet hair do never gets old, and Bob Barker is finally hanging up the mic, been damn some great shows have vanished but these shows are like cock roaches in an atomic war, they will constantly survive. When I don't have a clock near me and its around sun down I just tell someone to turn on the T.V. and if jeopardy is on I know its 7 P.M. Thats about the only good thing these shows are good for!

Sajak (sp?) has been stalking the ratings for years, yo!

evenstar3 said

Can I buy a vowel?

2the9s said:

My sentiments exactly!

I knew you weren't intellectual enough to like Jeopardy.

I don't really watch any of them. I like the showcase at the end of price is right because they get awesome stuff but knowing he is a dick behind the scenes ruins it for me!

They are mainstays. I imagine if there are audiences that want to go and play the games, they will still have them.If you think about the types of games being discussed, they are vastly different and use skills that many people like to use in games. Jeapordy - Trivia, WOF - Spelling/Hangman.

The Price is Right is a bit different, but has many appealing elements and structure to the show that make it popular...
First you have the annuncement of the 4 contestants
Many different games based on pricing and luck. Many of them are fun to play.
The fact that the contestants are constantly rotating
The Wheel
The showcase showdown. With it's skits and the possibility of winning both showcases
If you get the price correctly you get 100.00. WOmen get to go into Bob Barkers jacket and get it.

and the ever famous...A NEW CAR!!!!!

superspaceboy said:

These shows are the cream of the crop or holy trinity of game shows. Even so, The Price Is Right is the only one of these game shows which airs on network TV, and it is the only game show which airs on daytime network television. Wheel of Fortune originally aired on daytime network television in the late 1970's and early 1980's, and it was originally hosted by Chuck Woolery, but Pat Sajak took over in the early 1980's, and Vanna White came shortly afterward. It aired on daytime network TV for a few more years but went to syndication afterward. The current version of Jeopardy is actually the second series run; the first one was on network television back in the 1960s and was hosted by Art Fleming. This current run began in 1984 with Alex Trebek and has always run in syndication (with the exception of a deluxe version called Super Jeopardy which ran in the summer of 1990 on ABC).

At one time in TV history, it was not uncommon to see game shows in primetime (The $64,000 Question, Twenty-one, Password, To Tell The Truth), but after the quiz show scandal in the early 60's, the networks relegated game shows to daytime TV. Numerous game shows came on during this time and became pop culture icons (The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game, Match Game, Family Feud, Let's Make A Deal, The $20,000 Pyramid). Dick Clark and Chuck Barris literally built their TV empires on these shows. But by the late 1980's, the networks started losing money on these shows, and the local affiliates wanted to run either talk shows or courtroom type shows, so most of the game shows disappeared or popped up on cable. There wasn't really a resurgence of game shows on television until Who Wants To Be A Millionaire came on in 1999, and while it was a huge success initially, ABC ran the show into the ground by airing it 3 to 4 nights a week. Even so, it's been a mixed bag, with some shows starting out well but flaming out (Weakest Link), getting uneven ratings (1 vs. 100, Identity) or bombing in the ratings altogether (Greed, The Chair, Show Me The Money). Deal or No Deal may be the biggest game show on TV right now outside the holy trinity, but NBC has to tread carefully to make sure they don't run the show into the ground like WWTBA Millionaire.

i love JEOPARDY!

wheel of fortune..not so much

I used to LOVE Price Is Right when I was a kid...all the different games. It was just fun.

I used to kinda get into Jeopardy...it had it's moments.


Never really cared for Wheel Of Fortune, it was boring.

Plinko, motherfuckers. That's Bob's secret weapon

I'm watching jeopady right now.

Nikster said:

This is one of the shows I would watch when I was younger and in school, loved summer vacation because I was able to watch it.