'Price is Right' for Drew Carey
By DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer Today at 4:35 pm
Genial comic Drew Carey was tapped Monday to replace silver-haired legend Bob Barker on the CBS daytime game show "The Price is Right." The deal was set Monday afternoon shortly before a taping of CBS' "Late Show" with David Letterman, where he confirmed it.
"I realize what a big responsibility this is," he said. "It's only a game show, but it's the longest-running game show in American television and I plan to keep it that way."
The selection attracted more attention than usual for a daytime show because of the prospect of replacing Barker, 83. Barker retired after 35 years in the job last month following taping of his 6,586th episode.
The opening attracted widespread interest, including from comic Rosie O'Donnell after she left "The View."
Carey, 49, spent a decade on his own ABC sitcom and also was host of the improvisational game show "Whose Line is It Anyway?"
He will also be host of a new CBS prime-time game show, "The Power of 10," that will air first next month. He told The Associated Press on Monday that CBS officials first contacted him about "The Price is Right" immediately after he completed a pilot of the other game show this spring.
"My agent called me and said `I was talking to CBS casting today' and in my head I was thinking, `Oh, `CSI' guest star?' And he said what would you think about replacing Bob Barker on `The Price is Right?'"
Asked if he found the prospect of replacing such a TV legend daunting, Carey recalled talking to a friend who knows the game show business who told him, "as long as Bob Barker is cool with it, the fans will be cool with it."
"I'm cool with it," Barker said after hearing Carey's remarks.
Barker said he's not familiar enough with Carey's past performances to offer an opinion on his selection. But, he said, "I understand he ad-libs very well and that he has a very nice, friendly way of working, and I think both of those would be helpful to him on`The Price Is Right.'"
His advice for Carey: "Go out there and do that show the way you think it should be done. Don't imitate me and don't imitate anyone else."
While Carey said doesn't know Barker personally, the younger comedian said he was comfortable that his predecessor would be accepting when he took on the job.
The negotiation process was nerve-racking. While he was talking with CBS about the job, Carey said he got a call from another lawyer in Hollywood who told him one of his clients was offered "The Price is Right" job.
He figured CBS had lined up back-ups if the first choice did not come through.
"If I was going after a second baseman, I wouldn't just talk to one second baseman," the Cleveland Indians fan said. "If I were the general manager, I would be talking to a few second basemen."
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At least it wasn't Rosie. :xx
It don't mater to me who host this show there will never be another bob barker
i am glad it wont be Rosie cause i wouldnt have watched it at all, i probubly would have even blocked it on my dish so it couldnt be watched by anyone lol
I like Drew he is funny and i cant wait to see the first show
Quote from: lovebug44 on July 24, 2007, 10:04:47 AM
It don't mater to me who host this show there will never be another bob barker
I agree :(
Quote from: deborah010870 on August 01, 2007, 06:24:34 AMI like Drew he is funny and i cant wait to see the first show
same here. :)
any idea when the first show will be aired instead of the reruns?
from what i heard the new shows should begin late this year, early next year :/\
TMZ has learned that Drew Carey was injured today on the set of "The Price is Right."
Sources on the set tell TMZ that today during rehearsals "Price's" new host got his arm caught in a game with some sort of rotating device. Wheel of misfortune!
Doesn't sound serious though -- we're told Carey was well enough to make his lunch appointment.
When we contacted his managers, all we were told was "He's fine and everything's OK." They had no additional info.
LMAO..He must of gotten it caught in the showcase wheel thingy. :)))