NEW YORK -- Genial comic Drew Carey was tapped Monday to replace silver-haired legend Bob Barker on the CBS daytime game show "The Price is Right."
Carey confirmed the deal during a taping of the "Late Show" with David Letterman.
The selection attracted more attention than usual for a daytime show because of the prospect of replacing Barker, 83. Barker retired after 35 years in the job last month following taping of his 6,586th episode.
The opening attracted widespread interest, including from comic Rosie O'Donnell after she left "The View."
Carey, 49, spent a decade on his own ABC sitcom and also was host of the game show "Whose Line is It Anyway?," a comic improvisational show.
He will also be host of a new CBS prime-time game show, "The Power of 10," that will air first next month. He told The Associated Press that CBS officials first contacted him about "The Price is Right" immediately after he completed a pilot of the other game show this spring.
Although I wanted Todd Newton as host, Drew Carey is an alright choice, given his past game show credentials on Whose Line Is It Anyway? and the future host of The Power of 10, plus The Drew Carey Show. Carey is clearly better than Rosie O'Donnell as host anyway!
Rosie O'Donnell would be cool I think for a host (even though i don't like her at all) because i remember on her talk show she would have games and even if the person lost she would give the person the prize. She could have used the same concept for TPIR
