There aren’t many exhibits that may even dream of reaching 10,000 episodes, however The Worth Is Proper celebrates that illustrious milestone with February 26’s daytime episode. To honor this uncommon feat, the present is breaking out some super-sized prizes.
“Every little thing’s being performed for $10,000,” Drew Carey explains to TV Insider. “That quantity 10,000 goes to be factored in quite a lot of video games… The cash’s enormous. It’s only a bananas, actually costly present.”
The video games which might be being performed have since been revealed and embody favorites like Grande Recreation, Any Quantity, and Fortunate Seven — with all three honoring the event. Based on Carey, these video games have been chosen for a particular purpose: They’re “Winnable, winnable, winnable,” he says. “Nothing too laborious, nothing too simple.” (That is why the checklist doesn’t embody Stack the Deck, which is notoriously tough to win, or Cliff Hangers, which is among the many best.)
Carey took over as host of the long-lived gameshow after Bob Barker‘s retirement, along with his first episode airing on October 15, 2007. Now, with nearly 20 years below his belt, he feels privileged to assist the present make it to this landmark. “It means every little thing,” he says of emceeing the ten,000th episode. “It’s such an honor to be on the present within the first place. I hate to make use of phrases like ‘establishment’ for a TV present, nevertheless it actually is. I simply can’t think about it going anyplace, though I do know realistically, issues change, and never every little thing lasts.”
He additionally plans to see it by means of for the subsequent 10,000 episodes. “I actually respect the belief that CBS and Freemantle after which the followers put in me. For thus many individuals, this present is sort of a touchstone for them. They watched it with their family, or their grandma, or they discovered English — there’s all the time one thing that linked The Worth Is Proper to so many individuals,” he says. “So long as I’m wholesome and I could make it on the market and bodily do the job, I’ll maintain doing it.”
“It’s a lot enjoyable,” Carey provides. “I get loads of day off to journey and luxuriate in my life, and even in the course of the week, I get four-day weekends, normally each month, I get like per week or 10 days off in a row. It’s like a greater than any job… I’d be an fool [to quit].”
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