The Price is Right around the world
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- This article deals with international versions; for the US version, see The Price Is Right (US).
[edit] Argentina
El Precio Justo hosted by Fernando Bravo and announced by "Señor Noriega"
[edit] Australia
[edit] Belgium
De Juiste Prijs, hosted by Jan Theys. Like the Chinese and Peruvian versions, little is known about this version.
[edit] Brazil
O Preço Certo, hosted by Silvio Santos. Airing during the 1980s, it was broadcast on SBT.
[edit] Canada
(French-Canadian Version) : Misez Juste, hosted by Alain Léveillé. The French-Canadian version had a significantly cheaper budget (Car rentals in place of cars, trips to Halifax and Cuba) and a set more akin to Let's Make a Deal. The series lasted from 1994 to 1995. The host Alain (along with announcer Fabien Major) also appeared on an episode of the US version The Price is Right in 1994. This series aired once or twice a week, unlike the 2 other versions airing at the time.
(English-Language) The United States episodes were rebroadcast on a delay of approximately one month on Prime in Canada from August 12, 2002 to May 31, 2006. The rebroadcasts ended when Prime was rebranded as TVtropolis, with a new schedule featuring mainly off-network repeats of sitcom and dramas, plus some new original and imported programming.
Prime's episodes were recordings of the East Coast CBS feed with the closed captioning plugs that precede the Showcase Showdowns removed. Episodes pre-empted on this feed were either not shown or substituted with tapes sent from the production company. In some cases the tapes they received were actually rough versions of the episodes that had not yet been edited into the final product. For instance, one episode seen on Prime had Bob Barker say to a contestant, "This is your Showcase!" followed by a brief pause, a fade to black, and then Bob counting down and giving last minute instructions to the contestant before the Showcase proceeded. Also, Christmas week episodes were never aired on Prime due to the delayed rotation. CH also airs the series at the same time as CBS without any tape delays.
Canadian cable TV includes many American channels, including CBS, so the majority of Canadians have access to the American broadcasts of The Price Is Right.
[edit] China
Gòu Wù Jiē Dào
Little is known of this show other than that its name translates to "Shopping Street" and that it is airing on CCTV-2. It is not known if the format was actually licenced from FremantleMedia. The host is Zhen Cheng.
This show borrows many elements from the US version.
A version in Taiwan has similar elements to the Italian show, such as song-and-dance routines.
[edit] Colombia
El Precio es Correcto (The Price is Right), hosted by Gloria Valencia de Castaño and announced by El Capi in the late '80s, aired on Cadena Uno every Tuesday from 1 to 1.30 pm, after midday newscast Noticiero Nacional. It featured four pricing games per episode and no Showcase round.
As in the US version, Contestants' Row was composed of people selected from the audience by an invisible announcer, and the contestants were selected from the Contestants' Row through a bidding game. After the two first games, Contestants' Row was fully renewed for the two last games of the show.
All games were inspired by the US version. The first and the third ones used to change from one week to another but the second and the fourth ones were always the same.
The second game, Grand Game, was called El Mercadito (The Little Supermarket). In it, the contestant had to choose from among six articles the four which were above or below a given price. The constestant started the game with 10 pesos and would multiply them by 10 for each rigfht article that he would choose, up to a highest earning of 100.000 pesos (only $50 US). If he failed before attaining this highest price, he would be proposed a triqui-traque (treat): either he kept his winnings, or he could switch it for a surprise prize hidden behind a curtain. This surprise price could be much better (i.e. a VCR or an oriental rug) or much worse (i.e. a broom or a glass of orange juice) than the cash.
The fourth game was a Colombian rendition of Race Game. The contestant had 60 seconds to run across the stage to put the right price to five different articles, and when a price was indeed right, a light went on. Instead of running to and from the prizes, the contestant had to dance across the stage. He was allowed to choose the background music; possible choices included Cumbia, Merengue, Paso Doble, and Joropo.
[edit] Finland
Mitä Maksaa ("What does it cost"), hosted by Petri Liski, 1998-2000, aired on Nelonen.
1983-1988 Hosted by Mikko Yoderson
[edit] France
Le Juste Prix, hosted by Max Meynier (1987-1988), Eric Galliano(1988), Patrick Roy (1988 - 1992) and Philippe Risoli (1992 - 2001) It was aired at 12h05 on TF1 and became one of the most famous game show of the '90s. Le Juste Euro, hosted by Patrice Laffont, only lasted two weeks and was aired in January 2002 on France 2. The game show was replace with Attention à la marche hosted by Jean-Luc Reichmann.
[edit] Germany
Der Preis ist heiß ("The Price Is Hot"), hosted by Harry Wijnvoord and announced by Walter Freiwald, aired on RTL (1989-1997).The first season of this show used a set that had lots of pink and blue, the later series had a set that somewhat resembled the American set. The theme music was also changed to the American theme as well. The intro later included a light box, like the U.S. version. It was recently featured on Germany's Gameshow Marathon.
[edit] India
The episode was named as "Tol Mol Ke Bol" on Zee and there after several sort of games like this like "Khul Ja Sim Sim" on Star Plus were aired.
[edit] Indonesia
Tebak Harga. It didn't last long due to the instability of the Rupiah, the currency of Indonesia. The show was on TransTV and hosted by Muhammad Farhan (commonly known by his last name only).
[edit] Italy
OK, il Prezzo è Giusto!, hosted by Gigi Sabani (1983- 1986), Iva Zanicchi (1987-2000) (to early 1999, then again from fall 1999 to 2000), Emanuela Folliero (a few months in 1999), and Maria Teresa Ruta (2000-2001). This is the second longest continually-running version of The Price is Right, airing from 1983 to 2001.
To date, it is also only one of three versions to be hosted by a woman.
Raffaella Bragazzi, the announcer, was also a woman.
It also has possibly the most set changes for any version of the show, topping off somewhere around 7.
The last three seasons of the show used the Bruce's Price Is Right format; the earlier seasons were closer to the American format.
[edit] Mexico
Atínale al Precio, hosted by Marco Antonio Regil (1997-1999) and Héctor Sandarti (1999-2001), with Jaime Kurt (and later Julio Cesar Palomera) as the show's announcer. This version borrowed many elements from the American version (from set, game styles and music that sounds like a salsa version of the TPIR theme), and Regil was also spotted in the audience of a US TPIR episode in 1997. This show also included a light border in its intro, a la the US show.
[edit] Morocco
Morocco became the first country in Africa to get its own version of the show, airing in 2002 on RTM. Fremantle's website says that this version has had over 20 people taking out the showcases, six of which had cars.
[edit] The Netherlands
Prijzenslag, hosted by Hans Kazan 1989-1995 (based on Germany's Der Preis ist Heiss and possibly Bob Warman's in the UK) and current version Cash en Carlo, hosted by Carlo Boszhard, with Eddy Keur as the announcer. This version is one of many European versions to borrow the format of Bruce's Price Is Right in the UK (although it doesn't borrow the UK version's props and music cues, but uses another remix of the US TPIR theme as "Come on down" music).
[edit] New Zealand
The Price Is Right, hosted by Dave Jamieson, only lasted for one season in New Zealand, in 1992. The show was filmed at TVNZ's Avalon Studios in Wellington, even though the show screened on the opposition network TV3. The show was sponsored by the Farmers department store chain and Farmers actually changed their slogan around this time to Farmers, Where The Price Is Right. In recent years, the Australian version had been screened on New Zealand's Prime Television.
[edit] Peru
Diga lo que Vale (Say What It's Worth)': little is known other than it has been hosted by Johnny Lopez.
[edit] The Philippines
In 2001, the Associated Broadcasting Company launched the Filipino version of the show to beef up the station's ratings on the popularity of game shows on primetime TV, with Dawn Zulueta as host. This version lasted for about three seasons, ending in 2003.
[edit] Portugal
O Preço Certo em Euros, first hosted by Carlos Cruz and Nicolau Brayner (then called simply "O Preco Certo" when the escudo was in use), Jorge Gabriel and then Fernando Mendes, with Miguel Vital as announcer. This version uses Bruce's Price Is Right's props and music (but used a synthesized version of the US TPIR theme for its closing music).
In Autumn 2006 the show relaunched and took its insperation from the new version in the UK using its new music and set based on that version. The show also removed "em Euros" from the name making its new title O Preço Certo since the Euro has been in use for seven years.
[edit] Romania
Called Preţul Corect, the show was aired by Pro TV starting November 1997, being hosted by Stelian Nistor.
[edit] Spain
El Precio Justo, hosted by Joaquin Prat, later by Carlos Lozano, and then Guillermo Romero, always on TVE 1. In September 2006, a new format started on Antena 3, hosted by Juan y Medio. In this version (and Portugal's), announcer Luis Hernan sits in a DJ booth to call contestants down, as seen in pictures at Golden-Road.net. Before the Portuguese version came along, Spain used Bruce's Price Is Right's props and music.
While the Lozano/Romero era used the same props and music as the UK's Bruce's Price Is Right, the current version with Juan does appear to use a similar set to the current UK show with Joe Pasquale, but does not use the same theme as Joe's show while Portugal's version does use both.
[edit] United Kingdom
[edit] Venezuela
Using the same title as the Argentine and Spanish versions, it has aired since 2002 on RCTV, with Winston Vallenilla as emcee.
[edit] Vietnam
Only since 2004 has VTV3 started up a Vietnamese version called Hãy chọn giá đúng. It was hosted by one of the channel's most popular personalities, Lại Văn Sâm (also emcee of the Vietnamese version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, called Ai là triệu phú), and now is hosted by Lưu Minh Vũ
[edit] Nations not listed
According to Fremantle's website, versions of the show have also aired in Estonia, Greece, Israel, Turkey, Poland, Lithuania, and Pakistan.
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