It's going to be a new game show on CBS this summer, hosted by Drew Carey in which you can win up to $10 million depending on how accurately you can predict how the American public will respond to "intriguing" poll questions.

http://www.cbs.com/primetime/powerof10/

This is so right up my alley. I used to tape Card Sharks reruns just for the "We surveyed 100 people..." poll questions (and fast forward through all the boring card flipping stuff). My goal was to guess within 10 percentage points of the right answer and I usually could. I'd try out for this show if I didn't live so far away.


ETA (8/7/07): This is on tonight!!

Finally, a summer game show offering that is actually entertaining. I really enjoyed this show. I like how Drew Carey is hosting and it has me optimistic about his upcoming role on TPIR. I think what I am enjoying most is how I apparently have no grasp on how America thinks. I think I only got one of those questions within range and was waaaaay off on the feminist question.

I just had to say Jamie's dad Hal looks like Papa Roloff. Only, you know . . . bigger.

And Jamie's a cutie. I'd do that for a dollar. ;)

WOW- this game show was boring! I thought Drew Carey had nothing to offer at all. I switched it off after a few minutes of the feminist question and came back what I thought was quite a bit later to see they hadn't even revealed the range yet.


It did suprise me how easily he was able to win a million. I got them all pretty close, but was way off on the feminist question.

I wish the contestant didn't get to see the audience poll and consult with his helper each turn. I prefer the lifeline concept where it can only be used once.

Drew Carey looks like hell.

I was paying attention to the cutie answering the questions.

I liked the show. I thought Drew was very good, and I think the concept of guessing poll results is pretty original (I guess the closest thing is Family Feud, but this isn't really too similar to that), and fun to play along with. I also like that the gameplay isn't the usual Millionaire retread. In fact, the contestant can "ask the audience" and "phone a friend," but he/she can do it on every question; I dug that. It replaces the "dramatic!!!" atmosphere with a friendlier one; it's kind of necessary, because these questions are hard; and again, it made it not the same old/same old.

The one big problem to me is that, this kid aside, I think very few people are going to go for the $1M. Perhaps the kid's decision was because he was a kid and $10K was still a lot of money to him, and/or a med student and thus not exactly risking his lifetime financial security on this one decision. But I can't see a regular working person gambling $100K on questions to which it's virtually impossible to know the answer for sure.

And having won the $1M, no one will ever go for the $10M. How could they? What would that decision even be based on?? That's just silly.


I would have guessed 50-60%, and even that wouldn't have been close. In between that answer and 25% of people thinking Vin Diesel invented the diesel engine, the show was definitely depressing in a sense...

I guessed 35 on the feminist question. Actual number of women who I think are feminists: 99%, number who say they are: 35% in my estimation, due to the stigma.
I liked the show, it was a nice mix of Family Feud and Range Finder on TPiR. Drew did pretty well hosting, seemed to be pulling for the contestants and love his laugh outburtsts.

And yeah, I don't see anyone going for the 10 Million unless they are crazy.

I liked it, but like most game shows nowadays it's very slow. One thing they definitely have to change is the ten million dollar round. If I have a million dollars, why would I take a 1 in 11 chance on getting 10 times my money. Roulette has better odds than that.

I think this was more of a test for Drew than anything. The game itself was irritatingly slow and pretty dull, but I think CBS made a good choice in tapping Drew to host Price is Right. I'm taking this off of my TiVo, but I'm hopeful to see how Drew does with TPIR.

I liked it, mainly because it had the element of one-on-one competition for part of it, something all prime-time game shows lack these days.

I'm with those who thought the show was slow-moving and quite boring. I was hoping for something more like Family Feud, where the answers were at least somewhat guessable. I mean, questions like the Dick Cheney duel one are just impossible to guess. The question itself was just too vague. Plus who was polled anyway?

I liked Drew Carey, although I thought he'd be a little funnier. But I really appreciated the fact that he was so honest...admitting they hadn't rehearsed the part after giving away the million, since they didn't expect it to happen. Also, he seemed genuinely unhappy with having to eliminate a contestant right off the bat. So I liked him, and the contestants seemed nice (and I agree that the first contestant and his dad were both pretty attractive in a Richard Gere kind of way) but the concept of the show is just dull to me.

I can't disagree with this. In fact, I get the feeling that in most rounds, the million will never even come into play. Again, boring.

Not a bad show, but something is missing. I won't be watching.

In case you missed it, the kid winning is up online already here

I like the show and will definitely watch again. For how long, I don't know. I'm fickle when it comes to these things.

I can see how the show seems a bit slow. I would agree with this. But I was still adequately entertained. And I did really like Drew Carey. He always annoyed me a little on "Whose Line" because I never felt he was anywhere near as funny as the other comedians. But he comes off a little better here because he's by himself. I like how he interacted with the contestants - he gave the kid his honest opinion and was genuinely happy for him. It was nice. Bob Saget seems bored all the time and Howie Mandel is a douche.



I thought for sure the kid was going to lose on that question. I also thought the percentage would've been higher, like in the 60-70 range. 26% (or however much it was) is so sad. What's wrong with you, American women? I realize there's a stigma attached to the word, but c'mon, it's 2007. Geez.

Really enjoyed the show. Drew Carey was his everyman joker self, the contestants were likable, and the questions were interesting. My only complaint would be the speed of the show. A bit too slow for me, but still not agonizingly or anything.


I reasoned that approximately half of women are conservative and half are liberal, so the most you're going to have is 50% of ALL women saying their feminists. Then I figured there's probably a good portion of liberals that aren't serious enough about politics to really care, so I guessed 36%.

I kept track of all my answers (yes, don't laugh) and ended up averaging 11.72 percentage points away from the correct answer. But, this is with throwing out the last question in which 50% of women claimed to have changed a flat tire, which I have deemed to be utter nonsense (I guessed 14%, btw). Yeah, maybe 50% of women have helped change a flat tire by holding the tools or lug nuts, but I think that goes against the spirit of the question. I think the poll question was just too vague and should've been something like, "Have you ever changed a flat tire by yourself?" There's your 14%.

But I'm prepared to admit I'm wrong if we can get around 50% of female TwoP'ers to chime in with their flat tire changing stories.

I hated that. The whole thing just seemed so self-congratulatory, like, "We're the only show that gives away a million on the first episode! This show is so much better than other shows! Please, keep watching! Please!"

I've never seen a game show be so transparent about pimping...itself. I usually like Drew Carey, but the whole thing just seemed so desperate. At this point, people are rooting for the kid, not the survival of "The Power of 10" and the profits of CBS's TPTB.

I guessed 15%!! As a female, I've never changed a tire, and if any of the women I know have changed one, well, they've never mentioned it to me. I thought that percentage was way out of line.

This show's insurers must be shitting bricks. It seemed very easy to win $100K, and relatively easy to win the million. I don't think they'll be able to sustain this prize structure for very long. I give it 6 weeks.

Caught the last twenty minutes or so. I agree that going for the ten million is ridiculous, but I think there are some contestants who are foolish/greedy enough to do it. Last night's sure seemed to be considering it. Unless he was faking. In which case I resent him for prolonging the suspense disingenuously, and I resent the show for encouraging him to prolong it.

Like others, I felt Drew Carey's voicing of his hatred for the on-on-one competition part was unusually candid. It felt like a rare moment of reality breaking through, which is ironic since the whole show is supposed to be real. If the show lasts, I kind of hope he does it every single time, even though it will get tiresome. There was a feeling of "I'm saying this because I can," and I enjoyed the sense it gave me that one individual, if he's in a strong enough position, can stand up to The Man and get away with it.

In terms of being a "host," I think Drew is fine and I think he'll be a good TPIR host. But does anyone think that this show might benefit from someone with a little more of an edge in terms of wisecracks? I mean, some of the questions are just crying out for it. That said, I did appreciate that Drew seemed more like a partner at times than a host, trying to help the contestant wade through the intricacies of the question (and the kid had a nice wit about him).

This actually strikes me, perversely, as the sort of game show the fake Stephen Colbert could host.

Because I am a game show fanatic, I watched the whole episode, but this one was way too boring even for me. The pace is ridiculously slow, and while I liked Drew Carey's "fun uncle" persona, he was not interesting or funny enough to make up for the how the show dragged. The questions were poorly worded, too - the survey design part of me was a little bit ticked that they clearly weren't presenting the questions to the contestants in the same way they were worded to the survey respondents. That might have shed a little light on the strange ones - what the hell was that Dick Cheney question anyway? This one came off my Season Pass with a quickness.

I think depending on who they polled about the Diesel engine- it's not necessarily a "stupid" response to say Vin Diesel. I don't keep up with the kind of movies he does- so I know he is an actor, and I'm pretty sure he is bald- but that is IT.

It wouldn't be ridiculous to think that someone hadn't heard of him- and since it sounds like an odd name, it wouldn't be ridiculous to think of him as some foreigner or immigrant who invented the engine. I certainly didn't know the first name of the guy who DID invent it (though I do now). Since I have SOME name familiarity with Vin Diesel, I would have gotten it right- but I think getting it wrong would mean more that you don't know anything about entertainment, than about the history of the diesel engine. And is it really so bad of a thing to not know everything about entertainment?

I'm confused about the timing of the taping of this show. I was under the impression that The Price is Right hired Drew Carey based on seeing his performance as the host of this show. But the kid that won the million mentioned TPiR during the show, suggesting it was taped after Drew got the job. At first I thought maybe the used a later taping as their first actual show, but they kept saying how it was the first show. Unless, of course, this was taped later and they intended from the beginning that this would be the first show.

As far as the show itself goes, I liked the concept, but the show moved too slowly. I think there will be people who would go for the 10 million though, because even if you get it wrong you still walk away with $100,000. Some people will see that as a risk worth taking. I just hate shows where you get to decide whether to quit after you see the question. There's not as much risk. Although, assuming the format stays the same, contestants will always know what the 10 million question will be. That's one reason I like 1 vs 100. You have to decide whether you want the money or the mob before you get the next question.

I believe that Drew has said CBS began talks after the pilot was taped. This probably wasn't the pilot. It could've been re-worked and tweaked. Promos for the show were running before the official announcement that he was the new tPiR guy.

Having said that, I liked it okay. It did make me happy to see Carey so enthused about giving away the money. He wants the people to win. And compared to every "CSI" that the Tiffany Network has on, it still has to be cheap to produce. I hope it lasts.

Drew looked a little heavier than he had been on WLiiA or his own show. I have no problem with that. He's happy to be there, likes the contestants, and loves giving away Les Moonve's cash. What could be better?

God, I hated this piece of crap.

The show itself was: way too derivative of Millionaire in its lighting, angling, phrasing, and setup (good job stealing from yourself, Davies); extremely slow (the amount of time Drew had to spend vamping was ridiculous); filled with idiotic questions (the Cheney thing was inane); reliant upon too many lifelines (help and an audience poll on *every question*?!?); and just generally unengaging. I never gave a damn at any point, and I didn't find the play-along part that entertaining.

Drew: laughed at his own unfunny jokes WAY too much (shades of Dennis Miller!), to the point that his giggle started to give me a headache; didn't seem to know which role to play (host, friend, advisor, comedian, person watching the show along with you); and just looked uncomfortable. If this is the persona that he's going to put forward on TPIR, that show is in trouble.

The studio audience: filled with people who make the "1 Vs 100" and "Deal Or No Deal" studio audiences seem tame and subdued. I kept expecting a "Jerry, Jerry, Jerry!"-style chant.

The contestant: won way too much money for what he actually did. I tend to dislike shows where people people can earn craploads of money for so little effort; give me Jeopardy or Grand Slam or WSOPC or something, where they actually have to show some knowledge.

Edited because my now-deleted timeline question was answered above as I was typing this post.

True, but in this show, knowing the answer doesn't help you, when it comes to the ten million. You have to guess the exact percentage of people who picked it. To me, that's a total gamble, since it's something that's impossible to know.

Well, it didn't suck.

However, they certainly dicked aroud too much on the million-dollar question. I don't think they would have wasted that much time if the kid had lost...

I would just like to state first that I am a woman and have changed a tire all by myself. And I know several others who have done the same.

That being said, I have a Jim Halpert-esque crush on the contestant from the first show. I definitely think it moves too slow and the stupid bouncing percentage needs to go. Also, it really cracked me up when the final question to the Power of 10 is actually 11 numbers. Not well thought out....at all. Kind of like they were making it up as they went along.

Wha??? I guessed 70%. Doesn't everyone get a flat once in a while? I've changed many a flat tire over my years of driving, including one memorable one on the sandy side of a 2-lane road that involved having to get all our vacation stuff out of the back of the car to get the jack and the spare. Both of my driving-age daughters have changed tires. I doubt if my mom ever has, though; she's more of a "call AAA" type of driver.

So, what do you do when you get a flat? Wait for a guy to help? I wouldn't let my daughters out on the road by themselves without knowing how to change a tire, use jumper cables -- basic stuff like that. Neither would my dad when he taught me how to drive back in the late 70s.

As far as the show goes, I thought it was fun, although a little slow-paced. The "reveal" of the actual percentage, with the number rolling up and down the scale, is way too cheezy and takes too long. Drew, however, seems to me to be a very good game show host. I'll probably watch again.

I didn't make it through the first 1-on-1 match up. This show is Card Sharks without the cards. The cards are the best part of Card Sharks, so this pales in comparison.

This show is Card Sharks without the cards.

Those were the first words out of my mouth last night! As far as the show's pacing, if this makes sense, they were able to fool me into thinking it was moving faster than it really was, which is something "Deal Or No Deal" can't do. And, yes, the head-to-head first round is unnecessary.

Drew seemed nervous, too.

I liked on a few occasions when we could hear the crowd clapping and cheering, but the crowd behind the contestant weren't moving at all. Clap track, perhaps?

Based on the premiere, this may be a show that I watch when nothing else is on. It's okay and somewhat entertaining, but like others have said, it's on the slow side, and missing something to make it more exciting and fun to watch.

Drew Carey genuinely seems like a nice guy, but I didn't care for him on this show. He laughed so much at his own jokes, and had a personal anecdote about most of the questions. I really didn't need to hear anything about his girlfriend's name for his private parts!

The first round seemed helpful as a way to ease the contestant into the feel of the show, the picking percentages, using the range, etcetera. It also might give the contestant some clues as to the general preferences of the population, assuming that the same people (or sorts of people) answer the questions.

I disagree. I found the card flipping to be the most boring part of Card Sharks because it was simply a matter of knowing a static, basic math strategy" combined with flat out blind chance if you wanted to take a risk. The questions, however, required experience and reason in order to do well.


Maybe 1/2 the time there's already a guy in the car. Then there's the cell phone to call a guy, or to call a AAA type service. And sometimes a passing guy motorist stops to lend a hand, especially when it's a woman pulled over. I want all women know how to change a flat, but I just don't think it's the case yet.


Awesome. But if you know 200 women in all your life, would you say 100 of them changed flats, or closer to 30? It's hard to know, because you'd have to question all of them. :) But it's interesting to think of it that way.

Excuse me if this was answered, but I did not see it asked in any of the posts.
What poll are they using for this show? I did numerous searches and can not find out what polling service they use. Or maybe I am missing this in the credits which I can never read fast enough on any movie/show I ever saw for the most part. I would like to be able to confirm the results myself for obvious reasons.
For the record the question tonight : What % of men would give birth if possible had me fooled bigtime! I think it was like 30% said yes! I know NO man who would say yes myself unless they were being polled while thier wife was watching them and they felt they had to answer that way for whatever reason:)

The issue that sort of ruins the show for me is just that, the poll results.

Even if it's a "National" sampling, it's not a true representation. Some of the answers seem really iffy to me. (The Fireman fantasy, Men giving birth, etc.)

But it's okay for casual watching. Drew is nervous talker. Yet he seems to genuinely care about the contestants doing well, which is nice.

The show is decent. I can't believe someone won the million on the first show. Not a good sign.

Tonight was a lot less interesting and I got sidetracked easily. This is a good show for August when not much else is on but come Fall, I seriously doubt it.

The men giving birth question SHOCKED me. I didn't think it would be anywhere near 30%. The firemen question also surprised me... a single digit answer? What?

I see your point. I'm a huge math geek, so the probabilistic nature of the cards appeals to me.

I agree that I'd watch it when it was one, but it's not appointment viewing. Then again, since I was young and watched Match Game religiously, there hasn't been many a game show I consider appointment viewing (/shamefaced at minor crush on Gene Rayburn).

Drew's kind of awesome. I almost forgot how much I liked him until I happened upon this show tonight. I even think it's cute how he tells the contestants how much he wants them to win.

And the questions are fun! I get a kick out of those types of "what percentage of people" questions. The men-giving-birth question shocked the hell out of me, that percentage seemed awfully high.

(ps, I'll admit that although I totally should know how to change a flat, I never have.)

I couldn't hear Drew. I couldn't hear the contestants and it was so loud I turned it off half way through. Am I making too much of this? Did anyone else think it was way too loud and actually annoying?

You mean the audience? I did. I hate how they kept screaming while the contestant was answering on the first show. How could the guy even concentrate with all the people shouting "higher!, lower!"

I don't undertsand why they give the contestant the results of the audience poll every time. If you're trying to predict the results of a (supposedly) national poll, and then you get the results of the audience poll, aren't you going to go with the audience pretty much every time? Then the show just becomes a game of how close does the audience poll match the "national" poll they did for the show. Worse, it kind of turns the contestant into a marionette. And I won't even begin to get into the problems I've had with some of the poll results! I like the idea behind this game show, but there are some serious, perhaps fatal, flaws here.

Well I missed Tuesday's show but caught tonight's. I found it was an ok show for multitasking, I could listen to it while working on the computer or something. It didn't seem too slow to me (whereas a DoND sure would).

However, I did find that I frequently missed the reveal of the answer! My fault I know, but I can't be alone in this habit, and they just show it without saying it outloud (usually), and it doesn't seem to be tracked anywhere. It seems if I'm not looking at the screen at that second (which usually followed a pause encouraging me to get distracted, then I have no idea what the result is. That really detracted from it, and I hope they emphasize the result a little more strongly.

Drew was charming enough. He was much more of a friendly than authoritative host, and I think you really want a "man of the people" demeanor for a show based on surveys. I do think he needs time for the show and him to grow into each other.

See, now I really need them to ask what percentage of the country consider themselves abolitionists. >;-)

I think that a lot of polling is messed up in general so I see your point. But here the audience is trying to guess what the poll will say, not actually doing the poll themselves. Although some of the answers on the statistical curve for the audience are pretty messed up too.

Polling with a sample the size of the audience will have huge errors. On a thousand person poll you're looking at +-3% (i.e. the poll says 50%, the correct answer could be from 47% to 53%) 19 times out of 20.

With a couple hundred people in the audience who are not a representative cross sample of the United States the margin of error is probably 10% or higher (i.e. a 20%+ range) against the actual poll.

Not to mention the many many variations you get even in similar polls. For example Company X might poll in the daytime, and reports the The Candidate is leading by 5%. However Company Y polls at night, and reports the race as even. One possible answer would be that Company X is picking up more stay-at-home moms who are leaning for the candidate, and thus skewing their poll sample.

I didn't realize they did it that way. So a blind viewer at home might never know what the answer was? Seriously, that's kind of messed up. I wonder how many other shows are like that without me realizing.

A rocky night for my guessing. I averaged 14.28 points away from the correct answers, with having 3 of my guesses be 28+ points off, but 3 other guesses being 0 or only 1 away.


Maybe I was being too harsh, but there was an appeal in that too, just not nearly as much of an appeal as the poll questions. For me, I felt a FREEZE on 7, 8 or 9 was pretty standard, and then everything else you should guess in the obvious, more favorable direction. And since they use a real single deck of cards, card counting might yield a few percentage points in your favor.

curemode wrote: "Maybe I was being too harsh, but there was an appeal in that too, just not nearly as much of an appeal as the poll questions. For me, I felt a FREEZE on 7, 8 or 9 was pretty standard, and then everything else you should guess in the obvious, more favorable direction. And since they use a real single deck of cards, card counting might yield a few percentage points in your favor."

I didnt see a deck of cards in this game. Did I miss a key part somehow?

DGC2112: nope, we were just discussing "Card Sharks" and comparing it to this show.