Supposedly, on June 30, a pilot for The Dating Gane was done in NYC. Did anybody go to the taping or hear any details?

The taping has been moved, according to this page.

And since the subject's up again, are there others feeling awkward with the idea of The Dating Game on CBS? I know times change and the younger demos are important, but CBS has usually been the Tiffany address for many of our favorite daytime game shows - Price, Pyramid, Joker, PYL, Password - and somehow I can't help but feel this is an odd choice. It always strikes me as an ABC, Fox, or GSN and various other cable nets show. It's probably my age - and I know it'll be surrounded with soaps far more suggestive than DG will probably be. Maybe it's the two diverse styles back to back - Pyramid and DG. I'd like to hear your thoughts.

KNXT and WCBS used to show the off-ABC reruns. KNXT also picked up the once-a-week access version, so at least on that local level, it doesn't seem strange.

Comedian (?) Jeff B Davis - who has spent time on Whose Line is it Anyway?, is doing the pilot for Dating AND Lets Make a Deal. Judging by his twitter page, he's a bit risque - which surprises me that Monty would give him the nod......

Assuming anyone at CBS cares if Monty's head is nodding in the first place.

Just to clarify my thoughts a bit - Dating Game would be fine in the old Tattletales time slot (especially if it were the third of a series of game shows like Pyramid-PYL-DG). And DG in prime access has never been a problem. There, affiliate managers pick shows which best suit their community's audience. I guess I'd like to see a couple of classic-style CBS games in daytime with some real meat on them before tuning in to the meat market. A nice flow - brains/brains & giggles/giggles. But we only have an hour.

And for what it's worth - Deal would be workable on CBS, but why would they consider a show that in a sense is a game they already have? Price basically cannibalized Deal's games, and super-stunt versions of Deal (Big Deal, NBC's turkey) have been rejected.

And finally, speaking of PRICE - kudos to whoever sat Drew down and told him how to actually host the show! I'm now sold, and am even enjoying the show again.