Drew Carey Named New Host of The Price Is Right

LOS ANGELES, July 24: On a taping of Late Show With David
Letterman yesterday, actor and comedian Drew Carey revealed that he had
just signed on as the new host of The Price Is Right game show on CBS, succeeding the recently retired Bob
Barker.

“It’s a done deal,” said Carey during a guest appearance
recorded for Letterman’s program Monday night. “I’m the new host of The
Price Is Right.”

Last week during a gathering of Television Critics’
Association members in Beverly Hills, California, Carey acknowledged that he
was in talks with producers of The Price Is Right. He was also recently named host of another CBS game show, Power
of 10, a weekly prime-time series that will
debut in August.

Carey previously starred on his own ABC sitcom, The Drew
Carey Show, for several years and was host
of the improvisational comedy Whose Line Is It Anyway?

Barker, 83, ended his 35-year tenure as host of The Price
Is Right when he retired last month from 50
years on national television. His final broadcast of the show was shown on June
15, and the show will remain in summer reruns until it starts its new season
with Carey in the fall.