Drew Barrymore will aid because the center-piece of an updated version of “Hollywood Squares,” which CBS has picked up to air in January. The Uncover community announced the reimagined “Hollywood Squares,” with Barrymore because the center square, on Thursday because it unveiled its schedule for the 2024-2025 TV season. CBS Leisure president Amy Reisenbach and CBS president/CEO George Cheeks printed the news at a news convention with reporters.
The gamer will roam on Wednesdays at 10 p.m. ET starting in January, paired with “The Tag is Merely at Evening” (hosted by one other Drew — Drew Carey, that’s) at 8 p.m. and a brand fresh season of “Raid the Cage,” hosted by Damon Wayans, Jr. and co-host Jeannie Mai, at 9 p.m. The three presentations will air for the length of a midseason destroy for CBS’ traditional Wednesday schedule of “Survivor” and “The Summit” (descend) and “The Wonderful Bustle” (spring).
Jesse Collins (for Jesse Collins Leisure) and Barrymore (via her Flower Motion photos) are the producers on this fresh “Hollywood Squares.” Essential of the layout remains the a similar: “The ‘board’ for the sport is a vertical stack of initiating-confronted cubes, every occupied by a celeb seated at a desk and going via the contestants. The celebrities are asked questions and the contestants purchase the legitimacy of their solutions to decide the sport.”
Barrymore hosts the first-roam syndicated focus on present strip “The Drew Barrymore Level to,” which CBS stations air in necessary markets, for CBS Media Ventures.
“Drew’s already a a part of our CBS family,” Reisenbach said. “She’s adorable, she’s enticing, she’s going to bring her pals under the squares. We deem here’s going to be a broad 10 o’clock present for us. We now hold a terribly solid Wednesday evening of sport presentations to bridge the ‘Survivor’ seasons.”
Added Cheeks: “We’re reimagining ‘Hollywood Squares.’ We’re going to be lawful to to the the damaged-down college components, but care for having an anchor of someone with that persona, these relationships, and pretty somebody who in actuality is so this form of diehard fan of that franchise. We’re big interested by her in the center square.”
It’s in actuality been two a long time since “Hollywood Squares” ran in its traditional impress, with a syndicated version hosted by Tom Bergeron from 1998 to 2004. The sequence originated on NBC, the establish it aired in daylight hours from 1966 to 1980 with host Peter Marshall. A later syndicated version, hosted by John Davidson, ran from 1986 to 1989. In most up-to-the-minute years, Paramount cable networks hold roam off-shoots of the layout, in conjunction with “Hip Hop Squares” on MTV2 and VH1, and “Nashville Squares” on CMT.
