Unthinkable

A thread on the GSN board considers the unthinkable: what will eventually replace The Price is Right? Sooner or later, the show will head for Nielsen boot hill, right?

Of course, one response defiantly proclaims that the show "will never die." Well, sorry, but at some distant time it will die. Everything does, including the Sun and the Moon and the stars.

Most folks on the thread think that CBS would just turn the hour back to its affiliates, or expand its morning news show still further. Although I'm not a particular fan of the show, I have to admit that the idea of TPiR just...not existing is kinda weird. Almost like TV itself suddenly packing it in. "That's all, folks, no more television."

After all, as ancient as I'm getting, The Price is Right predates my earliest memories. Seems a little silly that a show based on guessing prices could last, in one version or the other, for a half-century now. But then again, a show based on guessing people's jobs lasted a quarter-century.