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"I really do think that people's perception about things is wrong most of the time."Ĭarey is playing along with the contestants Davies said the host does not know the answers before they are announced to the audience. "I'm always interested in what Americans think about things, and I like the idea that this is a show that could shake up people's perceptions," Carey said. Sorry, West Coasters, more than two-thirds picked New York. One fanciful question asks which city should be saved if asteroids were headed toward New York and Los Angeles and the government had the capacity to save only one.

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Millionaire premiered in August 1999 and quickly caught fire among bored TV viewers, a strategy CBS clearly is hoping to duplicate.Īmong the water-cooler questions Americans used on the pilot episode: How many Americans think they're smarter than President Bush? (60 percent) How many Americans say they have fired a gun? (67 percent) How many Americans say they were virgins the day they got married? (28 percent).

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To win $10 million, a player has to walk away from $1 million at the risk of being knocked down to $100,000. It's a "money tree" type of show that requires contestants to risk most of what they'd already won for the chance of getting really big money. The similarities between Power of 10 and Millionaire go beyond Davies. He gets visibly excited about people when they do well." "He really relates to people and wants them to win. "He is a superb game-show host because he has such empathy for people," Davies said. He fits perfectly into the current mold of an ideal game-show host - the good-natured comedian. The day after Carey shot a pilot episode of Power of 10, CBS approached him about replacing Barker. People talk about a show you can talk about the next day at work, around the water cooler. "This is going to be huge, this show," Carey said. A winner can take home a cool $10 million. 7 and 8, tests contestants on how they think fellow Americans responded to questions on culture and politics. The game, which debuts on CBS with 7 p.m. He takes out his iPhone to show some of his professional-quality pictures of soccer matches.īut when Michael Davies, former producer of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, called Carey this spring about Power of 10, he was intrigued.

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I thought, 'I don't have to put up with that anymore.' "Ĭarey had been doing occasional Web stories about common-sense approaches to solving problems for the libertarian Reason Foundation and a Travel Channel series following a soccer tournament in Europe. "Everyone was taking potshots at me when my show was failing in the ratings. "A lot of people slammed me out of nowhere, and I'm just trying to entertain people and make a living," said Carey, 49, Cleveland's favorite son. Put-downs in the press hurt even more, particularly one magazine's snarky remark that 200 episodes of The Drew Carey Show were 100 more than anyone wanted to see. Top executives from the network and production company didn't even bother coming to the show's wrap-up party. Viewers had tired of it, perhaps because syndication made it possible to see so much Carey each day, and ABC paid little attention to the final season. He still bears bruises from the messy end to his ABC sitcom. I don't even have to touch the principal."

"I'd be happy going to soccer games, traveling. "I didn't want to do TV in the first place," he said. To hear Carey tell it, he'd be fine either way.