Right you are. But the rebus fest was hardly alone in the cheapness department of our little genre. Cash Cab often doled out nothing but a cab ride, and sometimes a shortened ride at that. Even the winners frequently walked away with only a few hundred dollars. Still, Cash Cab is one of my personal favorites, and a much-honored quizzer.
Dollar amounts are usually not that relevant to me. After all, Millionaire never gives away a million any more, or anything close to it. But the show is still highly watchable. In the zillion channel universe prize values have mostly shrunk as shows battle over slivers of the audience. Your typical cable game show obviously can't afford to ladle out major dollars.
In fact, one of the explanations for the demise of The Chase on GSN was the outsized prize budget. The civvies didn't often win, but they enjoyed a really nice payday when they did. Mark Labbett couldn't guard the money stash every time.
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