Once more

CBS's daytime lineup has won the ratings wars for 437 years now (slight exaggeration) and most of the lineup will kick off the new fall season on September 17. The Price is Right begins its 47th season and Let's Make a Deal begins its 10th in their current incarnations. Of course, both shows date back much further into the thick mists of game show antiquity.

The Fremantle war horses have been around so long that it's a little hard to imagine the game show world without them. Still, LMAD vanished for almost twenty years after 1990, except for a very brief prime time try on NBC. I can remember the hubbub when CBS revived the show in 2009 with Wayne Brady - that Whose Line guy? - at the helm. By no means did everybody believe that Wayne's version would survive. Well, here we are, ten seasons later.

My indifference to shopping games is well known, so I can't say that I'm a huge fan of the CBS duo. But even my grumpy self enjoys the occasional clips on YouTube. Good luck to the shows on their new seasons.

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