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The Price Is Right is an American television game show where contestants compete by guessing the prices of merchandise to win cash and prizes. A 1972 revival by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman of their 1956–1965 show of the same name, the new version added many distinctive gameplay elements.
The Price Is Right is a television game show franchise created by Bob Stewart, originally produced by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman; currently it is produced and owned by Fremantle. The franchise centers on television game shows, but also includes merchandise such as video games , printed media, and board games.
The Price Is Right was an exception; Goodson and Todman had built a squeaky-clean reputation upon relatively low-stakes games. Thus, as the more popular competition was eliminated, The Price Is Right became the most-watched game show in the country, and remained so for two years.
The comedian replaced game show legend Bob Barker — who hosted the series for 35 years — as The Price is Right's emcee in 2007, and confesses that he spun the wheel a lot (off-camera, of ...
Later episodes of The Price Is Right $1,000,000 Spectacular in 2008 featured rule changes to some pricing games which awarded a $1 million bonus to the contestant for achieving specific goals. One game in each episode was designated as the "million dollar game" and required contestants to accomplish a specific outcome to win the bonus.
"The Price is Right" is leaving its longtime home at the Bob Barker Studio in Los Angeles' Television City for a new studio in Glendale. Host Drew Carey recently commented on the move in a video.
Bob Barker hosted The Price Is Right for 35 years and won 19 Emmys. His episodes of the game show are now airing on Buzzr. (CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images) (CBS Photo Archive via Getty Images)
The original Price Is Right also employed models. Usually, two models appeared per episode to model the prizes, much in the same tradition as the later incarnations. As is the case with the Carey era of the current version, the models were not referred to specifically by a nickname.