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« on: Jul 23rd, 2007, 7:14pm »		 Quote Quote Modify Modify
'Price Is Right' for Drew Carey
By DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer
37 minutes ago
 
NEW YORK - 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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« Reply #1 on: Jul 24th, 2007, 12:59pm »		 Quote Quote Modify Modify
I just was watching this on the news... they said that Bob Barker had told him to "make it his own"... but that he has told Barker that he will continue his "Spay and neuter your pets" ending as it's always been... and that Barker was really pleased to hear that.. Cheesy
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« Reply #2 on: Jul 25th, 2007, 9:15am »		 Quote Quote Modify Modify
Happy to see Drew Carrey will be doing the show. He does well hosting and I think he'll do a fine job with The Price is Right.
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