Bob Barker...

[Coralcola]

I know there are some game show fans, and there are just some regular TV fans here, so I thought this might be a good piece of info to discuss...

Bob Barker announced, for those that don't know, that he IS FINALLY retiring at the end of this season of The Price is Right. This, his 35th year as host, will be his last.

He's been thinking about it for 10 years, but this, his 35th year hosting TPIR, and 50 year in TV altogether, made it seem the right time for him. Plus, he's 82 years old, and hosting 5 shows a week for 40 weeks a year is a trying task, no less!!

If anybody here has watched the CBS Morning Show, the meterologist / crowd interacter Dave Price has been rumored, for a couple of years, to be in the works to take over, but that is yet unconfirmed. Todd Newton, the host of TPIR LIVE in Vegas, and former host of Whammy! and Hollywood Showdown on GSN, is also a possible candidate. The game show crowd, me included, are gunning for Marc Summers (remember Double Dare!? ) to take Barker's place.

SO THEN!? What do ya'll think about all this? Discuss... ;D

[Michael Jones]

I remember hearing about this not to long ago. Never thought about posting it. I was hoping he would be hosting until I would be old enough to go on the show but I didn't expect it to happen.

[Scotty D.]

I was devastated when I found that he'd be retiring before he died...I always just figured that's the way he'd go out. But this is good too.

As for Marc Summers taking over...that'd be...well...I'm not sure how that would go over...

[CelestialHusky]

Lol. Marc Summers is awesome!

Hes the original host of DoubleDare from Nickelodeon.

[Coralcola]

tyrael1986 said:

Hes the original host of DoubleDare from Nickelodeon.

As I noted in my original post above...

I was hoping (not really expecting, but hoping) that Bob Barker would go to 90, like Bob Hope. If he did, it would definitely be a record-breaker (not that he hasn't already had a lot anyway, LOL). I didn't want him to die in the middle of a show or in the middle of a run, that would be too tragic, and too undeserving for him.

Anybody here know much about the Dave Price character, i.e. you watch the CBS morning show? I don't watch daytime TV, except TPIR, so I wouldn't know. All of the other highly rumored candidates I'm well informed about...