CBS' Hollywood Squares 2025 - who's going to watch ?

No. Drew is beyond annoying and not funny.

No one.

They should have brought back Whoopi. I bet she wouldn't turn it down.

[quote]They should have brought back Whoopi.

Can't go to CBS. She's attached to the ABC/Disney teet these days.

Sheryl Underwood is looking for a job these days - she'd be better than Drew. Hell, Jerry O'Connell is looking for employment - he'd be a hell of a lot better than Underwood or Barrymore (and I am not a fan of his).

This ship has sailed.

I have high apple pie in the sky hopes for this.

Drew Barrymore? Nah. They need a comedian

I will watch Nate Burleson in anything but why on earth Drew Barrymore !?

Will Bruce Vilanch be the center square?

Kathy Griffin was funny on it

No. That unfunny MAGAt Jeff Dunham with his stupid puppets are reason #1 not to watch.

I thought Joan Rivers was the permanent center square on the John Davidson hosted version

They didn’t even ask me. Said I was probably too busy. I could have made room in my schedule.

Joan didn't join the show until the second season in 1987. She grabbed the first job she could get after she got canned from her talk show on Fox. I remember her being missing from the first few weeks of the season because Edgar had just killed himself in August, right before they started to tape the new season.

I was center square on the OG Hollywood Squares!

Will they all be announcing their pronouns each time they’re called on?

How does the show work? All the jokes are scripted. Do they know beforehand that they’re going to be called upon and memorize the joke or are they reading off teleprompters?

Luv the lumpen fraus on FB who think Paul Lynde is actually ad-libbing.

Each question is specific to the celeb. So they are prepared for what comes their way.

On the original show, the celebrities weren't told the questions in advance but they were given a list of joke answers that matched the questions in the order they came up in their stack. That's why you often saw them laugh to themselves when Peter read the questions; they're just then getting what's funny about the answer. They were expected to come up with an actual answer or bluff on their own, though.

How are they going to stretch the show into an hour and still make it seem funny and fresh? This sounds disastrous.

Drew will not be a compelling center square.

If Gilbert Gottfried were still with us, I'm sure he'd throw a "YOU FOOL!" in the producers' direction.

R21 Utter bullshit. My dad was Peter Marshal's nephew. He wrote for Squares for decades. Everything was scripted and run in advance as they could not stop tape if they flubbed. BTW most of the talent were stoned or drunk. Particularly Lynde.

R13 Joan had joined the show and sometimes sat in the center, but I don't think she was in that spot permanently. They rotated the celeb in the center to make the show a little different from the original.

It was a LOT different from the original - which happened to be FUNNY.

Well, with Drew Barrymore sitting in the center square, the laughs will keep on coming ! Fans who remember the original will forget all about Paul Lynde's legacy once Drew opens her mouth.

Will this interfere with Nate's debut on Beyond The Gates? Or is his team cancelling the opening of a few envelopes to accommodate?

How is OTA tv still a thing? Who watches this junk?

Nate is charmless

How 'bout "Hollywood Porn Star Squares" ... in the nude?

r24, is your surname, um... LaCock?

Joan WAS the permanent center square for the 80s reboot of the Square.

Drew Barrymore as the center square is just a joke.

Albeit, not a funny one.

From Wikipedia:

After one season of rotating center squares, former Hollywood Squares panelist Joan Rivers joined the series as the permanent center square. Comic actor Jim J. Bullock also became the series' third regular panelist, usually in the upper-left square. (Announcer Shaddow Stevens is the third)

On FB today someone asked Bruce Vilanch why he isn't going to be regular on the new Hollywood Squares and he replied, "Call Drew!"

So, now we know why she's the center square. She must be the producer. Ugh...

This will bomb hard. Grade Z “celebrities” filling the grid.

I remember when Carol Channing was a square.

Bergeron asked her, "Such-and-such was recognized by the American Red Cross for having done this over a 100+ times."

Channing, seriously responded, "Saving people from tornadoes!"

This cute queen had this completely dumbfounded look on his face before adding, "Yeah, I'm going to disagree."

Bergeron...,"Yes the correct answer was donated blood."

Don't FF me for saying it, but I would watch a Donald Trump led MAGA trash version of Hollywood Squares.

When they had the previous iteration with Whoopi Goldberg in the center square, she said it was important to bring wit back to television. I appreciate her for many things, but not for her wittiness, and so I wondered what she was talking about.

It will bomb.

Thank goodness this bomb will shed Drew of some of her ill-gotten gains during her violation of the SAG-Aftra strike.

Karma, baby!

Drew Barrymore as the center square? No thanks

I'll only watch it if regulars Paul Lynde and Rose Marie are back.

[quote]Don't FF me for saying it, but I would watch a Donald Trump led MAGA trash version of Hollywood Squares.

"I tell orange man, I want to be - how you say ? - center poosay square so I flash viewer. I want big boy sit next to me on right. I want boyfriend Tiffany security guard on other side of me."

Yup, she's one of the producers on it through her company Flower Films.

The center square needs to be funny. Everyone waits for someone to finally call on that person to bring in guaranteed laughs.

The ego of this woman to think she could do that with prepared answers.

If she had to force herself into the series then she should have just been the host with someone like Sheryl Underwood or Bill Burr as center square. Or, better yet, go back to the Joan days where people rotated.

U know this is for people that TV has forgotten to make shows for. I dont understand being negative about a show thats just not your cup of tea...just move the fuck along...

Hollywood Squares needs a comedian in the center squares! Not Drew Barrymore.

I just like saying "Pete LaCock.'

Ralph Pierre LaCock (March 30, 1926 – August 15, 2024), better known by his stage name Peter Marshall, was an American game show host, television and radio personality, singer, and actor. He was the original host of The Hollywood Squares from 1966 to 1981 and had almost fifty television, movie, and Broadway credits.

Pete LaCock, Jr.

Yeah, R46, and that makes sense. Except this is Drew fucking Barrymore and Nate fucking Berleson. Idiots.

They need a bitchy queen for the center square.

How about Nathan Lane?

Mario Cantone would have been a fun center square. Drew is going to be useless. Absolutely no thought or understanding of the show went into this version.

[quote] This will bomb hard. Grade Z “celebrities” filling the grid.

It’s always been Grade Z.

This will be unfunny and politically correct. Mark my words.

Remakes of shows like Hollywood Square and Match Game always fail because they try too hard to be funny - and that never works. The panels from the 70s versions of these shows were the magic.

I thought the Alec Baldwon-hosted Match Game was well-done. But that Family Feud reboot is unwatchable unfunny.