‘Hollywood Squares’ Reboot With Drew Barrymore Set For 2024-25 Broadcast Season At CBS
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CBS is bringing back Hollywood Squares.
The network announced Thursday that the reboot of the classic game show will launch in January, kicking off the midseason broadcast schedule.
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Drew Barrymore is set to be the famed “center square” answering questions for the contestants.
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Hollywood Squares involves two contestants who 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. The celebrities are asked questions and the contestants judge the legitimacy of their answers to win the game.
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Hollywood Squares is produced by Jesse Collins for Jesse Collins Entertainment and Drew Barrymore and Flower Films.
The original show aired on NBC in the 1960s. The series piloted in 1965 and debuted in its entirety on the same network in 1966.
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