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Michael Strahan and a complete new batch of celebrities and contestants shall be again for an eighth season subsequent 12 months. The $100,000 Pyramid has been renewed by ABC. The seventh season completed airing final December. No new episodes have aired in 2024.
A primetime recreation present, The $100,000 Pyramid TV collection is the newest iteration of a format that launched in daytime in 1973. Strahan hosts this latest incarnation. The competitors pits two groups of two — a contestant and a celeb — towards each other. In the primary recreation, the companions take turns serving to the opposite guess a collection of phrases or phrases primarily based on descriptions given to them by their teammates. The successful group then strikes onto the Winner’s Circle with a pyramid-shaped gameboard. If a group can full the pyramid’s six classes in 60 seconds, the contestant wins $50,000. If the contestant can win the second spherical of the primary recreation (teamed with the opposite superstar), they will win a further $100,000. Seventh season celebrities embrace Jason Alexander, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Lauren Ash, Joel Kim Booster, Wayne Brady, Dan Bucatinsky, Fortune Feimster, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Ana Gasteyer, Tiffany Haddish, Oscar Nunez, and Rosie O’Donnell.
Airing on Wednesday nights, the seventh season of The $100,000 Pyramid averaged a 0.28 ranking within the 18-49 demographic and a pair of.78 million viewers. In comparison with season six, that’s down by 23% within the demo and down by 14% in viewership within the dwell+identical day scores (together with DVR playback by way of 3:00 AM).
The renewal doesn’t come a lot of a shock as Strahan talked about filming 20 new episodes in Could 2023. He wrote, “That’s a wrap on capturing season seven of The $100,000 Pyramid. We shot 20 exhibits over 4 days and couldn’t be extra grateful to you all. A lot goes right into a present like this. I can’t thank our Pyramid group sufficient. We will by no means do that with out every one among you. Particular thanks to all our superstar friends for approaching and winnowing our friends some $$$$!! And to everybody who tunes in every week to The $100,000 Pyramid, you’re in for a deal with for season seven. Coming quickly to ABC. See you within the winner’s circle.”
The community solely aired ten episodes for season seven, so the remaining ten have now been designated as season eight. Whether or not extra installments have been filmed to increase the brand new season is unknown.
Season eight of Pyramid launches on Sunday, March ninth.
What do you assume? Do you stay up for seeing new episodes of The $100,000 Pyramid on ABC? Are you glad the sport present has been renewed for an eighth season?