Price is right 1,000,000 3/7/08

Regular show has to be w/in $250, so no...

 

I think it's easier to guess these larger showcases though.

 

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....or it's rigged

 

More likely, the just don't show the ones taped where they don't get a big winner.

 

Incorrect, because the CBS ticket site clearly states which tapings are the MDS ones, so it's not like they keep taping Million Dollar shows until someone wins big.

 

I think it's more difficult to guess the large showcases. On something like the showcase where you get two of everything, if the contestant thinks a Lincoln MKZ is $35,000 then it doubles the error when they're wrong. The campers and boats seem almost impossible to value in my opinion, and that goes for the daytime show as well.

I thought this million dollar win was a lot more plausible than the last one. I did think the possibility of getting a million in the Plinko game was too far fetched though. There are 9 Plinko slots and the contestant needs to hit the middle slot three times in a row, just to get the golden chip. If I can recall from my painful statistics classes, the chance of that is about 0.14%, or about 1 out of 700. Then to get the golden chip in the same slot the overall odds drop down to 0.0152% or about 1 in 6600. I guess that is better than lottery odds, but still pretty crazy.

 

The problem is, if they don't show an episode, they don't give out the prizes (ask anybody who thought they were a big winner on Fox's The Rich List about that), and there's no way TPIR gets away with a stunt like that.

-- Don

 

Has nothing to do with Bob Barker. It's just the accepted rules of all game shows, and is in the contracts that contestants (and potential contestants) sign. If the show doesn't air, there is no ad revenue to support it, and therefore no money to pay for prizes. Contestants on game shows never get their money until after their episode airs, and if it doesn't air, they get nothing.

 

I have never heard it either. I have been doing some searching and can't find out if it is true or not. I'm having a hard time believing it is true.

 

http://www.tvweek.com/blogs/james-hibberd/2007/08/game_show_contracts.php

Although that link does say that game-show producers often pay the money anyway, in order to avoid bad press.

 

As far as I know, there has never been an unaired episode of "The Price Is Right."

 

What about tomorrow's?

 

I've already watched it - isn't that why I have TiVo?

 

I didn't realize the Series 10 had come out already.