CBS.com updated the airlist for TPiR, and Bob's final show will tape 6/6, airing on 6/15, barring any unforseen preempts.

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I expect CBS to air it in primetime, as the prelude to the broadcast of the Daytime Emmy Awards that night.

Brian

And on what do you base this expectation?

Not true...CBS is doing a special of Bob Barker and his 50 years on Television. I think the special is most important than his final TPiR.

Charles

He divined it from the positions of the stars in his hind end.

I thought to myself, since Bob's last TPIR and the Daytime Emmys will be June 15, I thought, "if I ran CBS, I should run the Barker finale, then the Emmys."

Brian

Maybe that's why you don't run CBS!

And you're not running CBS. Your idea was full of BS. Thanks for playing.

Then, which of the following would come first?
* Don Howard would stick a loaded revolver in his mouth
* CBS' world headquarters would move to Cincinnati
Cue Dr. Smith! Oh, the pain. The pain.

Well, at least he would probably bring games back to daytime. Of course, they'd all be trivia shows about NASCAR, wrestling, and other game shows. :-P


Happy thoughts...Temptation coming this fall. Pat O'Brien in a hot tub.

/That guy's great.
//From what I heard.

And the entire country will know *every* programming change that happens in Cincinnati.

"Coming up tonight on the CBS Evening News--did you see that crazy puzzle solve on Wheel of Fortune last night? Katie Couric brings you the hilarity, tonight on CBS."

"Breaking News! Last night on The Sopranos, a man was shot to death by Tony Soprano. Upon shooting the man, Tony yelled 'You are the weakest link, goodbye!' This news story is a tragedy because it has that game show quote."

Seems to me that it would more likely be "You are the motherf--kin' weakest link, goodbye!"

Or on A&E, "You are the mother freakin'..."

Next on CBS, the 250 hour marathon of "Hoosier Millionaire" with Mark Patrick and Barbara Hobbs.

Charles

This from the guy who defended Hoosier Millionaire as being a great show?

Sorry, you don't get to play here, kiddo.

Oh gawd, I defended HM?!?!? "Better than TPiR..." Either I was smokin' Rod Roddy's ties or eating Plinko chips...

(Kneeling down to the west) Please forgive me Bob. I was out of my mind in the early 2000's.

Charles

And follow up that with $1 million revivals of Free 4 All and Quicksilver.

Wait! Never heard of them?? That's probably a good thing.....

Don't forget that it's all on a one month tape delay.

Hard to forget something that isn't true. By the season finale, they'll be taping a week and a half in advance, and in previous seasons, they've been going two or three days in advance at that point.

Indeed -- the show I attended taped on a Thursday in late May and aired the following Tuesday.

I believe Monarx was snarking at Mr. Henke, and how his recaps were always on a long delay from their respective episode's airdate.

-Jason

in which case a month is giving Henke too much credit.

That was two years ago, Chumley. Hopefully you've changed, and...oh, I don't know...mean it this time?

Usually, I wouldn't bump a more-than-a-month-old thread but the chart on this page now ends with a May 23 tape date and June 1 air date.

You added useful information in a topical fashion to a discussion. Shouldn't matter if the thread is two days or two years old for that. Well done.

You know, it doesn't actually say that the June 1 episode is the season finale, and it strikes me as pretty strange that they'd suddenly cut ten shows that had already been scheduled. I'm wondering if maybe they've just decided to air Barker's last two weeks in September.

And actually, this is CBS.com we're talking about, so it's entirely possible that the page wasn't supposed to be changed in the first place.

Don't we also have a few shows that didn't air due to pre-emptions like Gerald Ford's death/funeral and Iraq stuff?

No, those just aired this Monday and Tuesday.

I can now confirm that my original guess was at least partly correct. The June 4-8 and June 11-15 shows will happen; they just might not air on those dates.