NEW PYRAMID CASTING., Tri-state area. Options

[Card Shark]

The ticketing site for the program has four taping dates scheduled and confirms that it will indeed be The $1,000,000 Pyramid. While I trust the show in Davies's hands, $1M, even at the end of a tournament, is still a LOT for daytime Pyramid.

I tried to get tickets, but the site says I need to submit a photo. There was a time when they didn't care what you looked like to sit in the audience. Hopefully I can get the tickets somehow, since I live in the NYC area.

I tried to set this up last night and each time I tried to submit a jpg, being 2 mb, it told me the pic must be in jpg file only. Gee, why didn't I think of that! So, I think there was something wrong with the site last night.

[MST]

The ticketing site for the program has four taping dates scheduled and confirms that it will indeed be The $1,000,000 Pyramid. While I trust the show in Davies's hands, $1M, even at the end of a tournament, is still a LOT for daytime Pyramid.

I tried to get tickets, but the site says I need to submit a photo. There was a time when they didn't care what you looked like to sit in the audience. Hopefully I can get the tickets somehow, since I live in the NYC area.

It looks to be a website mostly used for casting purposes, so the picture is probably for that. I figure they didn't plan on using their system for people who want tickets and yet don't want to be cast on "Real World / Road Rules Challenge".

[bandit_bobby]

$1 Million for the new daytime Pyramid? If they want to offer that much money, they should air the new version in syndication, not on CBS Daytime. $100,000 would be a more suitable top prize for daytime.

[Loogaroo]

Does anyone have any confirmation whether the $1M prize will be given out as a tournament purse or a money ladder-ish progression? If it is a tournament, they should really consider doing a three-stage thing: have three tournaments within the year for $100K, with the three winners of each tournament qualifying for the grand final at the end of the season.

Wishful thinking, I know, and maybe a bit too complicated for a casual audience to grasp, but it's a thought.

[chad1m]

Does anyone have any confirmation

Nope, still speculation. We wouldn't have even known it was the $1M Pyramid if it hadn't been posted on the audience site. But Alex Davis will be at one of the tapings, so I'm sure we'll get some good info.

[Craig Karlberg]

The 3-stage thing regarding the tournaments sounds good in theory, but how far apart are you gonna do this? Probably 6-8 week cycles is the best possible time frame since most of the 80's tournaments usually lasted close to 2 weeks on average.

As for the $1M prize, it's much too expensive for network daytime unless CBS did away with its winnings cap. We'll see what comes out this weekend.

[TeppanYaki]

I look at it this way, regarding the point of budget: Every 26 weeks or so, a certain show gives away $1 million to survive being stranded in a desolate location and what's partly for staged circumstances.

If CBS does the same for a daytime game show tournament, what's the difference?

Now - one (or more) will say, "But it's the daytime, the ratings are different!" True, but aren't the production costs as well? If you can splurge for a million every quarter and be under budget (vs. a soap's budget), I don't see a problem. If it is, then ok - there's a bigger issue there.