Despite little genre output when compared to NBC and ABC, CBS is the last remaining Big Three television networks to carry daytime game shows.

Despite the failure of Amateur's Guide, Silverman commissioned three other games for debut on September 4 – The New Price Is Right, Gambit, and The Joker's Wild – to replace the reruns seen in the daytime slots up to this point.

Prior to Deal, the last game on CBS (other than Price) was the Ray Combs-hosted revival of Family Feud, which aired from 1988 to 1993.

Moonlighting, he also directed seventeen events for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, working with musicians such as Mariss Jansons, Marvin Hamlisch and Rolando Villazon.

During the past 35 years, Peter has directed over 160 productions in the New York and regional theatre, including a full range of classic and contemporary plays, cabaret and opera.

At American Playwrights Theatre, his collaboration with Larry L. King led to a 1988 Helen Hayes Award for The Night Hank Williams Died.

Also at APT, he won an inaugural John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts/American Express Grant for his production of Speaking In Tongues, about controversial film director Pier Paolo Pasolini.

Frisch has been a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fulbright Program and served as a board member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation.

He is an enthusiastic amateur musician and has been published in a variety of journals from Sound & Vision to The Washington Report on Middle Eastern Affairs.