CBS Possibly to Replace Guiding Light With Update of $25,000 Pyramid?
By Jamey Giddens on April 01, 2009
The news just keeps getting better and better soap fans.TV Week is reporting an updated version of the $25,000 Pyramid is a contender for replacing Guiding Light this September.
The news just keeps getting better and better soap fans.TV Week is reporting an updated version of the $25,000 Pyramid is a contender for replacing Guiding Light this September.
A new version of "The $25,000 Pyramid" from Sony and producer Michael Davies ("Who Wants to Be a Millionaire") is one of the projects CBS is considering as a replacement for "Guiding Light."
Neither Sony nor CBS would comment. However, two people familiar with the situation said Mr. Davies and Sony have come up with a reworking of the classic "Pyramid" game show format designed to fit into CBS' daytime lineup.
The new take likely would be an hour in order to fill the timeslot vacated by "Guiding Light," which ends its CBS run in September.
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25 December 2008
9 weeks 4 days
I hope they all burn in hell, seriously!
30 October 2008
2 years 13 weeks
They just had that Pyramid redo a few years ago with Donnie Osmand. Don't think there would be a rush to go there again, but maybe I am wrong.
12 February 2008
2 days 10 hours
I am so over CBS right now...
19 February 2009
1 year 19 weeks
This makes me sick. GL replaced with a rework of a 1970's gameshow. Please!
20 November 2008
2 years 42 weeks
This is just a giant slap in the face for all soap fans
27 January 2009
48 weeks 4 days
A full *hour* of "Pyramid" replacing "GL"?!!? I never saw that one coming. As if depression hadn't sank in enough this week...
23 April 2008
12 hours 35 min
Oh YAY! I can't wait! I love game show 5 days a week! Which has been will be hosting this one!?
I can take a sigh of relief, if GL has to be cancelled thank God it's with a remake gameshow!!!
9-19-09...... Gameshows happen here!
......bitches
2 April 2008
18 hours 9 min
Is CBS turning into the next game show network? I've never even watched GL and this makes me sick! Ugh!!
23 April 2008
12 hours 35 min
They all wanna be like Slumdog millionare! I love the tv industry, even during these dark days of daytime but seriously, they are grasping at nothing. give 2 million viewers their effing soap back.
22 November 2007
31 weeks 4 days
I'm surprised that that the prospective replacement show is NOT another "Judge Judy/Carl/Missy Elliott" type program.
My 76 year-old mother LOVES those shows.
30 March 2009
1 week 2 days
With the state that Bold and the Beautiful is in now I can't believe that I am going to type this but did CBS think about expanding it to an hour? I mean come on another game show?!?! Are they serious???
BB has the potential to be a very good show. Then they could finally give Lesli Kay a story. Come on CBS!
17 March 2009
1 year 36 weeks
Oh CBS is crap, I hate that I will be missing Y&R, it is so good right now too, but they are making their choice. I hope Bloom loses her job, just like the guy over at NBC lost his job after Another World was canned. I hope that happenes.
5 November 2007
2 weeks 1 day
Just more salt in the wound...
31 July 2008
11 weeks 2 days
Fuck.
28 December 2007
32 weeks 6 days
I will never watch this crap they are replacing GL with.
3 December 2008
1 year 46 weeks
CBS, turn the "LIGHT" back on!!!!! I can't see "Life Happen" in the dark.
I don't know remember how to deal with the loss of a soap. It's been a while. I remember when Loving ended and then The City. I was devistated. You can find me on YouTube hunting down old videos. I never watched Another World and never cared for Passions, Port Charles, and Sunset Beach, but I know what it feels like. How do I grieve? GL has been around since before I was born. Again, how do I greive.
1 April 2009
16 weeks 1 day
How is this better than GL?
21 February 2009
4 weeks 3 days
its obviously cheaper, thats the bottom line
22 May 2008
8 min 31 sec
How big is the gameshow audience? Better be pretty big to cover the whole all the GL and CBS soap fans will leave.
Bastids.
I remember watching Guiding Light with my Mom when I was a kid back in the 50's. Glad she's not around to see her favorite "story" die.
Just when it was getting good again.......
20 December 2008
1 year 42 weeks
Call CBS tomorrow and tell them you won't be watching this show or any other CBS show once Guiding Light has been murdered by them!!!!
20 December 2008
1 year 42 weeks
Jamey I want to hear you drop the F bomb on the GL podcast and I want it dropped hard on those CBS FUCKERS!!!!!!
21 April 2008
6 hours 23 min
Stupidest. Idea. EVER!!!
2 January 2008
21 weeks 1 day
Stupidest idea ever i could see them increasing b&b to a full hour that would make sense
13 December 2008
2 years 1 week
another damn game show. come on. I was hoping for anothe soap opera.
14 December 2008
4 days 15 hours
I've only just heard about Guiding Light being cancelled and now this? It's too much! Nice to CBS cares so much about their soaps they're already floating rumours of possible shows out there! Thanks, CBS!
28 November 2008
8 weeks 3 days
Oh Please , isn't The Price is Right going down in the ratings ? Cheap is right , aren't there enough of them on the air !
5 April 2008
2 years 35 weeks
I am not watching some damn Pyramid game show!
20 April 2009
2 years 1 week
Now this is an April Fool's Day Joke. What group would a game show be attracting? Ellen is on the other network and CBS will TOTALLY loose this time spot if they don't continue and LET THE LIGHT KEEP SHINING with Crystal Chappell, Jessica Leccia, Kim Zimmer, Gina, Grant, etc. This would be a baddd mistake.
20 April 2009
2 years 1 week
SUICIDE! Who will watch it?
5 June 2009
2 years 50 weeks
While I am a huge GL fan – My biggest fear - another game show, ugh, or worse yet another JUDGE show (zzzz). CBS and P&G should look at replacing it with Kim's Closet - a new, refreshing lifestyle and makeover show. They are saying the host Kimberly is going to do for fashion what Rachel Ray has done for food - make it fun. Finally, a fun, relatable daytime lifestyle show... www.KimsCloset.TV