It’s hip to be sq. once more! Hollywood Squares will see Drew Barrymore take middle stage (or make that sq.) on CBS beginning in early 2025.
The community introduced its midseason premiere dates on Wednesday (November 13), together with a January 9, 2025 sequence premiere for Hollywood Squares. Though the basic recreation present has been reworked many occasions through the years, it’s returning to its roots and authentic dwelling with Barrymore within the middle sq. and Nate Burleson as host.
The present airs on Thursday nights for the primary three weeks earlier than transferring over to Wednesday nights alongside The Worth Is Proper at Night time and Raid the Cage beginning on January 29. These two exhibits each premiere on January 8, 2025.
CBS describes the format as follows: “Two contestants play tic-tac-toe to win cash and prizes. The ‘board’ for the sport is a vertical stack of open-faced cubes, every occupied by a celeb seated at a desk and going through the contestants. The celebrities are requested questions and the contestants choose the legitimacy of their solutions to win the sport. … Drew Barrymore will take her place because the famed ‘middle sq.’ answering questions for the contestants.”
The announcement got here with the official first-look pictures of Barrymore on set. She may be seen posing in old-school recreation present eleganza alongside host and former NFL participant Burleson (above), and seated for a solo snap (beneath).
CBS Midseason Primetime Schedule & Premiere Dates:
THURSDAY, JANUARY 9
8 p.m.: Hollywood Squares (Collection Premiere; transferring to Wednesdays at 10 p.m. beginning January 29)
9 p.m.: Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage (Encores)
9: 30 p.m.: Ghosts (Encores)
10 p.m.: CBS Drama Encores
SUNDAY, JANUARY 26
6:30-10 p.m.: (approx.) AFC Championship Sport
10 p.m.: (approx.) Watson (Collection Premiere)
MONDAYS, beginning JANUARY 27
8 p.m.: The Neighborhood
8:30 p.m.: Poppa’s Home
9 p.m.: NCIS
10 p.m.: NCIS: Origins
TUESDAY, JANUARY 28
8 p.m.: FBI
9 p.m.: FBI: Worldwide
10 p.m.: FBI: Most Wished
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29
8 p.m.: The Worth Is Proper At Night time
9 p.m.: Raid The Cage
10 p.m.: Hollywood Squares (new time interval premiere)
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 16
7 p.m.: 60 Minutes
8 p.m.: Tracker
9 p.m.: Watson (Episode 2, Common Time Interval Premiere)
10 p.m.: The Equalizer (New Time Interval Premiere)
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26
8 p.m.: Survivor (Season 48 Premiere)
10 p.m.: Hollywood Squares
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5
8-9:30 p.m.: Survivor
9:30 p.m.: The Wonderful Race (Season 37 Premiere)
Hollywood Squares is but to announce its celebrities, however in August, Gabriel Iglesias revealed a swath of them when he shared an Instagram video mid-taping; a lot of A-list names seen within the squares.
Some names embrace former NFL participant and present co-host of The Speak, Akbar Gbajabiamila, former Group star Yvette Nicole Brown, comic Whitney Cummings, and The Cleansing Girl actor Oliver Hudson.
Different names noticed within the background of Iglesias’ Instagram Tales are Triumph the Insult Comedian Canine, comic Tig Notaro, What We Do within the Shadows star Kristen Schaal, And Simply Like That… actor Mario Cantone, The Neighborhood stars Tichina Arnold and Beth Behrs, and The Carol Burnett Present alum Vicki Lawrence.
The video offers followers their first sneak peek on the set, which seems to take inspiration from the unique Nineteen Sixties model of Hollywood Squares. 9 cubes are stacked on high of 1 different in a 3 x 3 grid, and the studio ground is wood-paneled.
Followers took to social media loving the old-school look. “Nicely I’m shocked however happy,” wrote one fan on X on the time.
“They made a brand new Hollywood Squares set for this model. It’s not the previous Hip Hop/Nashville/Movie star Squares set once more for an additional decade. Seems good!” wrote one other.
“I’m really digging the wood-like flooring. Positively a special really feel from the Black Shiny Flooring of the Bergeron Period,” mentioned one other.
Unique Hollywood Squares host Peter Marshall died from kidney failure on the age of 98 over the summer season. Marshall hosted the present from 1966 till 1981 and received 4 Daytime Emmy Awards.
Hollywood Squares, Collection Premiere, January 9 2025, CBS