Yahoo Lifestyle See the Star-Studded Lineup of Celebrities Joining Drew Barrymore on the New 'Hollywood Squares'
The new version of Hollywood Squares, starring award-winning actress and talk show host Drew Barrymore as the center square and hosted by Nate Burleson, co-host of CBS Mornings, is debuting on CBS on Thursday, Jan 9, with a fresh take on the classic game show that previously featured Paul Lynde and Whoopi Goldberg as center squares.
This morning, CBS revealed the first round of celebrities who will taking their place in one of the other eight squares. They include Tyra Banks, Julie Bowen, Yvette Nicole Brown, Whitney Cummings, Akbar Gbajabiamila, Tiffany Haddish, Oliver Hudson, Pete Holmes, Gabriel Iglesias, Jo Koy, Jay Leno, Justin Long, Kevin Nealon, RuPaul, Andrew Rannells, Kristen Schaal, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, Sheryl Underwood and Jimmy O. Yang.
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Hollywood Squares is a classic game show in which two contestants play tic-tac-toe to win money and prizes. The “board” for the game is a vertical stack of open-faced cubes, each occupied by a celebrity seated at a desk and facing the contestants. One contestant represents the letter X and the other the letter O in the game of tic-tac-toe. The celebrities are asked questions, and the contestants judge the legitimacy of their answers to win the game, getting either an X or an O if they judge correctly.
After its Jan. 9 premiere, Hollywood Squares will move to Wednesdays at 10 p.m. ET/PT on CBS beginning on Jan. 29 as part of CBS Game Night, along with The Price is Right at Night at 8 p.m. ET/PT and Raid the Cage at 9 p.m.
