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.
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!!!