CBS is considering filling the void in its daytime schedule — due to the cancellation of long-running soap opera Guiding Light — with a new version of The $25,000 Pyramid, according to TV Week. Neither Sony, the studio behind the supposed project, or CBS would comment about the prospect of Pyramid, but sources close to the situation told TV Week that producer Michael Davies (Who Wants to Be a Millionaire) has been working on relaunching the game show. The network is also said to be considering other options to fill the hour hole, including talk shows produced in-house.
Pyramid has a storied history on CBS. The Dick Clark-hosted $10,000 Pyramid debuted on the network’s daytime lineup in 1973 before later moving to ABC and syndication. Pyramid later returned to CBS in the 1980s before being canceled in 1988. A syndicated version, hosted by Donny Osmond, was launched by Sony in 2002.
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Do something new! These old recycled ideas are very, very sad.
Yeah, a revival of Press Your Luck would be really cool! GSN (Game Show Network just recently pulled the reruns of Press Your Luck this past Monday, and I think, after nearly a quarter of a century without a Press Your Luck on the regular CBS schedule, we are long overdue for a revival. Even if they do use the board similar to Game Show Marathon back in 2006, but as long as they recycle Whammy animations from the 1980s version – including the 10 of them that have not been shown on the GSN reruns at all, then I would record and watch it in a heartbeat!
As for $25K Pyramid, I think the reruns on GSN would beat a revival any day. But I’m cancelling my GSN subscription this weekend due to lack of appealing variety on the schedule. It really is sad how GSN has made a change for the worst in recent days, and I can’t wait to find out whether or not Press Your Luck will be revived.
yeh fast money everyone dreams of it. Follow the money and that’s the answer to everything. Not
Great!!!I hope they do. Pyramid is one of the best game shows on TV and we need
more of them and less of talk
shows and soap operas. Donny
Osmond is a joy!
Urgh I am still sick over the cancellation of Guiding Light! Replacing it with Pyramid? Thank goodness I’m not actually subjected to daytime TV. No one on the planet wants to DVR a stupid game show!
What happened CBS ? Didn’t Michelle like Guiding Light ?
In regards to replacing the Guilding Light with the 25k Pyramid…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Are you kidding me? They are replacing a beloved longtime soap opera with a stupid game show? This is criminal.
YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDING!!
Get real..they are like a second family to many people who have watched for years.
TURN THE LIGHT BACK ON…there are enough dumb game/reality shows
What gets me is no one from the Neilsons or CBS has ever asked if I watch the show. Since 1981 my loyalty has never been counted and now we get another brainless game show or reality show. Enough already. Game shows are a ripoff and ESCAPING reality is why we watch TV!
Turn the light back on!
Oh my. Talk about forward thinking and cutting edge, CBS. You cancel a show that is literally reinventing the genre in front of our eyes, garnering publicity and kudos everywhere, and simmering the first real supercouple of the 21st century. And you’re going to replace it with a retread of a game show that ran its course decades ago?
Uhm, why????
This is so unbearably cheesy. I hate game shows.
Are you crazy to let this good soap to go bye. I really thing this should stay and not the one you are going replace.
Please to try and keep.
I have watched Guiding Light for 35 years, and have never tired of the show. I agree with Kate on the new format potential. Let’s get real, game shows are cheaper and that is the bottom line. Fan preferences are not a part of this decision. Down with another brainless game or reality show.
I will not watch CBS daytime TV once GL goes of the air!!!
On Cablevision – they changed the show to air at 10 AM – did anybody that might be a problem? Put it back to the original 3 PM slot and see what happens to the ratings!!!!
I will boycot CBS for taking Guiding Light off the air. Replacing it with another game show is rediculas. What about us older woman who don’t work anymore and have been loyal to
GL for 47 years. Recording it during the day when we did work. I Say boycot!!!!
Canceling Guiding Light is another stupid move for CBS. Just one more straw to it heading down hill to be beat out but ABC. The game network is being canceled not enough viewwers, shouldnt this tell CBS something!
BOOOOOOO!!!!! I HATE gameshows!! They are BORING!
Shame on you CBS for turning your back on a show that has brought you thousands upon thousands of loyal viewers.
What kills me is the articles stating their are no stay-at-home moms anymore to watch it.. Well perhaps if the ratings considered hits on CBS.com, and DVR/VCR recordings I bet the numbers would be a heck of a lot higher! the ratings system is pathetically out of date.. Pyramid, really????
“Kate Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 04:24 PM EST
Oh my. Talk about forward thinking and cutting edge, CBS. You cancel a show that is literally reinventing the genre in front of our eyes, garnering publicity and kudos everywhere, and simmering the first real supercouple of the 21st century. And you’re going to replace it with a retread of a game show that ran its course decades ago?
Uhm, why????”
Kate, you hit the nail on the head. This makes no sense at all. Someone at CBS is making a terrible mistake! This show is loved by its fans like no other show on TV.
I can’t believe it! I’ve been watching for 35 years! The nielsons are meaningless and backwards…everyone DVR’s stuff now and for years we videotaped our favorite shows also! The real numbers need to include people who watch the show later. Guiding Light was the last show I watched on CBS because with so many intelligent shows being canceled without warning and mindless gameshows and reality shows replacing them, I felt like my time was better spent watching non-network television. Well CBS, instead of moving into the future by counting people who record shows, you have stayed behind the line and lost another cbs family. Good luck to you when the only people left who watch your station are the unemployed who can’t buy your sponser’s products anyway.
I am very sad that CBS would cancel Guiding Light. I am 39 yr old and have watched for 30 plus years. What a stupid idea to put another game show on. There are other soaps that should be canceled. CBS is not seeing what a mistake this is.
please keep the Light on!!
http://tvseriesfinale.com/articles/guiding-light-petition/
I cant believe that you’re seriously going to cancel Guiding Light. I’ts all part of CBS history! You can’t do it. There are many thousands of fans out here, the nielsons are crap!!!!!Keep GL!!!!
What’s the matter with Guilding light?? We have watch all these people grow with us we relate to some of the things they do don’t take it off I’m not watching that other show you lost me
What idiot decided to kill Guilding Light.. my mother and I are both love this show..SAVE GUILDING LIGHT..it goes so do alot of viewers, if I want to see Pyramids I’ll watch the game channel..
Although older people watch the game shows etc. nothing can replace guiding light. I grew up watching this show please keep it on.
GL is better now than it has been in YEARS. The audience is growing too with Otalia helping to build the fanbase. CBS is making a mistake.
Although I never saw much for GL sense they took away hope and bo I Do agree with most of the comments so far. Putting a game show back on is kind of lame. I guess its better then more bob barker reruns but it would be nice to have a “change”..ya know? something new? different? exciting maybe? I think you guys are showing poor judgment again I hope it don’t cost you the whole station. You know whats sad is its not just GL or ATWT’s its a lot of shows on this station going belly up. You guys should look at what your doing wrong maybe and not what these old time good shows are doing wrong.