Wheel 2000! And here's our host: David Sidoni!' The opening spiel is 'Hey, it's time to play.Despite this, the show's current policies count this version as your once-in-a-lifetime appearance on the American franchise. Children aged 10-15 play for points (not cash) and prizes more geared towards that age group, with no returning champions.A large colored light bulb is at the left side of each display.

The only holdovers from the adult version are the score displays and flippers. A much smaller set is used, despite taping in Studio 11 at Sony Pictures in Culver City (the same studio as the adult version).The official timeslot is 11:30 AM Eastern/Pacific, although some of those affiliates air it earlier and others air it on Sundays.

Wheel 2000 airs weekly, on Saturday mornings.

In more recent years, the show has been criticized by fans in many facets, such as the noticeably lower budget and the fact that several longstanding rules were altered to make the game harder for this version's players. While Wheel 2000 is a footnote of the American franchise and one of the briefest Wheel adaptations in the world, it was adapted for Turkey (as Cark 2000) in 2000 and Vietnam (as Chiếc nón kỳ diệu) from at least 2007-09.

The show was consistently #1 among CBS' children's programming that season (unsurprising, given its pedigree), but finished its first-run episodes in 46th place with approximately 350,000 Kids 2-11 viewers and a 0.9 rating on average, the network's Saturday-morning lineup as a whole continually ran a distant fourth, with a 0.5 rating (about 190,000 Kids 2-11 viewers). James Marcione served as director, with Pamela Covais as producer. It was hosted by David Sidoni, with Tanika Ray as the voice of CGI announcer/hostess ' Cyber Lucy'. Wheel of Fortune 2000 (almost always shortened to Wheel 2000) was a children's version of Wheel of Fortune created and produced by Scott Sternberg which ran concurrently in first-run on CBS and GSN from Septemto February 7, 1998.

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