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A Connecticut woman became the biggest winner in "Wheel of Fortune" history Tuesday night after taking home more than $1 million in prizes. Christina Derevjanik of Stamford, Connecticut, won a total of $1,035,155, becoming only the fourth contestant ever to land the show's $1 million grand prize and the first since Ryan Seacrest took over as host, according to a press release. Over the course of the game, Derevjanik collected $35,155 in cash and prizes, including trips to Montana and Tokyo, before advancing to the bonus round. She chose the category "Living Things" and correctly solved the puzzle, "PACK OF COYOTES." Seacrest then revealed the $1 million envelope, sparking confetti and cheers as Derevjanik celebrated her historic win. |
posted 10/1/2025 |
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Tuesday Lightning Round |
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It was a Big Brother season marked by the return of a legend, a havoc-wreaking masked adversary, and a controversial showmance, but the real drama hovered over the question of who would emerge victorious as the champion of Big Brother season 27. That question has now been answered. Morgan Pope, Vince Panaro, and Ashley Hollis entered Sunday’s live finale as the final three still vying for the $750,000 prize. That prize would ultimately be awarded by the jury. To win those jury votes, the last three players first needed to get there. That meant winning the final three-part Head of Household competition. |
posted 9/29/2025 |
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Initial, Zeppotron to Adapt the World's Oldest Game.... Ball. |
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The producers behind Last One Laughing UK have located what they hope will be the next big British format. Banijay labels Initial and Zeppotron are developing a version of Dutch format Let’s Play Ball, which broke out on YouTube with more than 1 million views and will soon launch on SBS6 in the Netherlands. The format sees two rival teams of comedians go head-to-head in a race to transport a gigantic ball across various terrains. Facing physical puzzles along the way, each episode will see the teams navigate varied landscapes, from narrow city streets to rivers and countryside meadows. Initial and Zeppotron are the first to reimagine Let’s Play Ball outside the Netherlands. The two indies have already demonstrated the chops required to get comedians to do silly things. Adapted from the Japanese format, Prime Video’s Last One Laughing UK was a big hit for the streamer, featuring the likes of Bob Mortimer, Daisy May Cooper and Richard Ayoade. Separate from each other, Initial and Zeppotron also make the likes of Big Brother and Would I Lie to You?. Initial boss Katy Manley said: “This hilarious new show is the perfect next joint project for us. Initial brings the big red balls (we also make Wipeout), while Zeppotron will unlock its legendary black book to cast the funniest people in the country…. We can’t wait to take this out to buyers in the UK.” Let’s Play Ball is an original format co-developed and co-owned by EndemolShine Nederland, Talpa Studios and Signal.Stream. The show will make its international debut in the Netherlands this summer, co-produced by EndemolShine Nederland and Signal.Stream. Originally piloted on YouTube via StukTV, the show attracted over 1.2 million views. Banijay Entertainment holds global format distribution rights. |
posted 9/29/2025 |
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Monday Lightning Round |
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Nexstar is joining Sinclair in bringing Jimmy Kimmel back on air. The broadcast groups that preempted the late-night series earlier in September have both announced that Jimmy Kimmel Live! will return to their ABC affiliate broadcast stations. “We have had discussions with executives at The Walt Disney Company and appreciate their constructive approach to addressing our concerns,” Nexstar wrote in a statement, per Deadline. “As a local broadcaster, Nexstar remains committed to protecting the First Amendment while producing and airing local and national news that is fact-based and unbiased and, above all, broadcasting content that is in the best interest of the communities we serve. We stand apart from cable television, monolithic streaming services, and national networks in our commitment – and obligation – to be stewards of the public airwaves and to protect and reflect the specific sensibilities of our communities. To be clear, our commitment to those principles has guided our decisions throughout this process, independent of any external influence from government agencies or individuals.” Sinclair released a similar statement: “Over the last week, we have received thoughtful feedback from viewers, advertisers and community leaders representing a wide range of perspectives. We have also witnessed troubling acts of violence, including the despicable incident of a shooting at an ABC affiliate station in Sacramento. These events underscore why responsible broadcasting matters and why respectful dialogue between differing voices remains so important.” The announcements come three days after Disney reinstated the late night program to its ABC broadcast network after a suspension that lasted nearly a week. Disney had shelved the show after Nexstar — which owns more than two dozen ABC affiliates nationwide, including stations in Nashville, New Orleans and other, smaller markets — decided not to air the show in light of Kimmel’s comments about the killing of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk. Sinclair soon followed suit. Jimmy Kimmel Live!’s return to ABC on Tuesday drew 6.3 million total viewers, the network has announced, despite the fact that it wasn’t available in 23% of households nationwide, with affiliate owners Nexstar and Sinclair continuing to preempt the show in protest of Kimmel’s recent comments about the killing of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk. |
posted 9/23/2025 |
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Suppliers that helped produce Lucky 13 have been asked to provide evidence of their debts following the collapse of the UK production vehicles behind the ABC game show. Lucky 13 was produced under a novel greenlight model, under which producer Studio 1 pre-funded the series in return for half of ABC’s ad revenue and 100% of product placement sales. But the venture went sideways when the revenue from 30-second ad spots fell well below projections, with ABC later canceling the series. Lucky 13 Holdings and Studio 13 Entertainment, the special-purpose companies set up to house Lucky 13, were effectively declared bankrupt last year, and an administrator was appointed to wind up their affairs. They were run by Studio 1 CEO Adrian Woolfe. Millions of dollars were owed to financiers, the presenters, contestants and suppliers. ABC eventually stepped in to pay host fees and contestants at least $460,000 in winnings. Studio 13 Entertainment still owes unsecured creditors as much as £890,974 ($1.2 million), according to a filing by Menzies, the UK accountancy firm overseeing the administration process. They have now been asked to prove their debts by October 20, even though Menzies has said it is unlikely they will be repaid. These creditors include the likes of post-production house Suite (owed £113,264); Nest Productions (owed £163,914), a production services company; and media law firm Lee & Thompson (£27,000). SMC Speciality Finance, which helped fund Lucky 13, was owed around $4.6M after the collapse, but pocketed the $881,994 in ABC ad revenue generated by the show. SMC has taken control of the Lucky 13 rights and other IP owned by Studio 13 Entertainment including Dancing With Horses, a show piloted for Fox with Sarah Ferguson starring. Lucky 13 tested contestants’ knowledge with 13 true-or-false trivia questions but with a twist: just how well do they know what they know — and, just as importantly, how well do they know what they don’t know? If they accurately predicted how successfully they’ve answered 13 questions, they could take home a $1M cash jackpot. It became ABC’s most-watched summer series premiere when it launched last July with 2.7M viewers. Lucky 13’s season finale was also ranked No. 1 in its time period. Woolfe created the show and served as showrunner. Actor Kevin Bacon was an executive producer alongside Mark Wells, Glenn Coomber, Aaron Stone, Alastair Burlingham, Gary Raskin, David Schiff, Scott Henry and GW Wright. O’Neal executive produced alongside Colin Smeeton and Michael Parris for his Jersey Legends Productions, while Rodriguez executive produced via her I Can & I Will Productions. |
posted 9/26/2025 |
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Bidding for Monopoly Heats Up |
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The competition to produce a Netflix game show based on iconic board game Monopoly is heating up. Deadline reports that three companies – Studio Lambert, Wheelhouse and Endemol Shine North America – are vying for the right to produce the show as part of a large-scale bake-off. The bake-off was the talk of the unscripted town earlier this summer with around 50 companies understood to have submitted creative ideas for the adaptation with around 30 pre-approved by the streamer. Studio Lambert is behind series such as Peacock’s The Traitors, for which it recently won another Emmy, and the All3Media-owned company is in business with Netflix on series such as Squid Game: The Challenge. It also produced The Circle, Dance 100 and Surviving Paradise for the streamer. Wheelhouse has also worked with Netflix on a number of projects including Million Dollar Secret, the Peter Serafinowicz-hosted game show that was recently renewed for a second season, as well as Buying Beverly Hills, which ran for two seasons and King of Collectibles: The Goldin Touch. Endemol Shine North America is behind series such as ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, CBS’s The Summit, Fox’s MasterChef and Lego Masters and NBC’s Deal or No Deal Island. On the scripted front, it produced Ripley, which aired on Netflix. Endemol Shine North America Sharon Levy told Deadline earlier this year that the streamer was “biggest target for ’25”. Netflix struck a deal for the rights to Monopoly from Hasbro Entertainment earlier this year. Gaspin told Deadline earlier this summer that he was convinced to buy the project without a pitch in part due to the success of Monopoly Go!, the mobile board game from Scopely that came out in 2023. That game is thought to have had more than 150 million downloads and generated at least $5 billion in revenue. “There’s a gameplay in Monopoly Go! that I think really will resonate with gameplay in an unscripted series,” he said. “The idea itself is still up for grabs. How do we want to approach it? Is it a giant game board? Is it in the real world? We don’t have the answer and we had so many agents and so many production companies reaching out and asking us if they can participate, and asking if we’ll consider putting them in the bake-off that we didn’t want to be restrictive. So, we said, ‘Why don’t we do a first round that’s pretty broad.’” |
posted 9/26/2025 |
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More on "Physical Asia" |
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The Physical:100 franchise returns bigger and bolder than ever with its most ambitious evolution yet. Today, Netflix revealed the 48 contestants of Physical: Asia - the franchise's first-ever nation-vs-nation showdown. Eight countries - Korea, Japan, Thailand, Mongolia, Türkiye, Indonesia, Australia, and the Philippines - will collide in a high-stakes competition of strength, strategy, and teamwork for nothing less than national pride. Each six-person squad is anchored by a national superstar who embodies the competitive spirit of their homeland. - Korea: UFC trailblazer Dong-hyun "Stun Gun" Kim leads a powerhouse squad featuring Olympic gold medalist Yun Sung-bin, Amotti (Physical: 100 Season 2 winner), Jang Eun-sil, Choi Seung-yeon, and famed ssireum champion Kim Min-jae. The series blends elite athleticism with cultural tradition, spotlighting disciplines from combat sports and ball games to track and field - alongside heritage events like Korean ssireum, Mongolian wrestling, Turkish oil wrestling, and Muay Thai. Physical: Asia is more than a clash of athletes; it's a showcase of heritage, pride, and physical mastery on an unprecedented global stage. Following acclaimed spin-offs in the U.S. and Italy, this new chapter transforms the fight for individual survival into a national team showdown. Producer Jang Ho-gi noted: "At its heart, the Physical series is about raw competition that transcends disciplines and generations. By bringing national pride into the equation, the battles will be more intense, more emotional, and more unforgettable than ever." Uniting world-class athletes, cultural icons, and living legends, Physical: Asia marks the franchise's first true battle for national pride. The eight-nation spectacle premieres this October, streaming only on Netflix to audiences worldwide. |
posted 9/26/2025 |
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Happy Friday Lightning Round |
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Alison Irwin made history way back in 2004 when she became the first former Big Brother player to cross over as a contestant on The Amazing Race. The Big Brother season 4 runner-up grabbed her backpack and her boyfriend Donny to compete on season 5 of The Amazing Race, but their travels were short-lived, as the couple was the second team eliminated. Oh well. Since then, however, the floodgates have opened and many Big Brother alums have tried their hand at the globe-trotting CBS series over the years, with two BB couples (Cody Nickson and Jessica Graf as well as Derek Xiao and Claire Rehfuss) winning the show. But the ultimate Big Brother and Amazing Race crossover event is finally about to take place! Are we referring to the upcoming Amazing Race season featuring all Big Brother players and their loved ones that kicks off Sept. 25 on CBS? Of course not! We’re talking about something way more important than that. We’re talking about a meeting of the minds between TAR host Phil Keoghan and BB host Julie Chen Moonves in which they attempt to teach each other their signature moves. |
posted 9/25/2025 |
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Celebrity Wheel of Fortune is returning for Season 6, but with a fresh new host and all-new celebrities. Find out who will be competing for chairty, including The Hunting Wives stars, Dancing with the Stars contestants, and more. Ryan Seacrest will take charge of his first season of the celebrity version of the game show as well as his second season of the syndicated version. Celebrity Wheel of Fortune Season 6 will premiere on Friday, September 26, on ABC at 8pm. This means fans get Celebrity Wheel of Fortune twice this year since Sajak’s last season was delayed from fall 2024 to Spring 2025. 20/20 will air right after. The schedule is different from Season 5, which aired on Wednesday nights. The game show will stream on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+ for bundle subscribers the following day. Who is competing on Season 6 of Celebrity Wheel of Fortune? The first episode will feature Dancing With the Stars‘ Jenna Johnson Chmerkovskiy, Derek Hough, and Bruno Tonioli. Other celebrities competing for charity include actor and comedian Alex Borstein, director and producer Paul Feig, actor Michael Zegen, The Hunting Wives stars Malin Akerman, Katie Lowes, and Jaime Ray Newman. Joey McIntyre will also spin the wheel, along with author and actor Retta, Oliver Hudson; WNBA champion and author Candace Parker, NBA Hall of Famer Dwight Howard, sportscaster and radio host Rich Eisen, Big Sean, 2 Chainz, and Tori Kelly. More big names will be announced soon! |
posted 9/25/2025 |
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That's a Lot of Minutes |
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Big Brother is having a splashy summer on CBS. Season 27 is averaging 5.1M viewers per episode in 35-day multi-platform viewing across linear and streaming, up 23% from last year, per a combination of Nielsen data and internal data from parent company Paramount Global. So far, viewers have watched more than 8B minutes of Big Brother this summer between full episodes and live feeds on CBS, Paramount+ and Pluto TV. That’s a 27% lift from last year’s 6.61B. Per Paramount, live feed streaming alone is up 35% year-over-year. In terms of full-episode viewership, Season 27 is boasting Big Brother‘s best average minute audience ever. The Season 27 two-hour live finale airs Sunday, September 28 from 8:30 to 10:30 p.m. ET/PT on CBS and Paramount+. |
posted 9/25/2025 |
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More on "The Floor" |
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The much-anticipated Season 4 return of television's #1 game show, The Floor, will premiere on FOX on Wednesday, September 24. New this season, "America Duels". Two contestants will represent each of the 50 states and we talked with one from Utah, Frank. He says he's hoping to be the final contestant who gains control over The Floor and take home $250,000! The Floor is hosted and produced by Emmy Award nominee, Rob Lowe. 100 contestants face off in head-to-head duels where the winner take control of their opponent's square, while the loser goes home. They stand their ground on a massive, interactive LED game floor featuring 100 squares, each representing a different trivia category. Contestants this season range from reality stars to influencers athletes. |
posted 9/25/2025 |
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Jeopardy! Returns to 7.5 Million Viewers |
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“Jeopardy” maintained its status as the most-watched syndication series on television in its premiere week, debuting with 7.5 million viewers. That’s a 4% increase from its premiere week viewership the year before, according to Live + Same Day data from Nielsen. The Sony Pictures Television-produced trivia show was one of seven distributed by CBS Media Ventures to make the top 10 most-watched syndicated series during the week of Sept. 8-14. The other six were “Wheel of Fortune” at No. 2, “Inside Edition” at No. 4, “Entertainment Tonight” at No. 5, “Hot Bench” at No. 6, “The Drew Barrymore Show” at No. 8 and “Flip Side” at No. 9. Of those seven, five achieved year-over-year premiere week growth. Along with the 4% bump for “Jeopardy,” “The Drew Barrymore Show” increased 8% to 1.3 million viewers, becoming the No. 2 syndicated talk show after “Live With Kelly and Mark.” “Hot Bench,” the top syndicated court show, achieved its best premiere week in four years, improving on last year by 15% to reach 2.1 million viewers. “Inside Edition” led syndicated newsmagazine series, growing by 1% to reach 3 million viewers, and “Flip Side” jumped by 17% from its first season to reach 1 million viewers. It should be noted that preemptions were significant throughout premiere week, with syndicated series bumped to make room for Monday Night Football and the 24th anniversary of 9/11, which are standard at this time of year, in addition to as coverage of both the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Without those factors, viewership of syndicated series would have been higher. |
posted 9/25/2025 |
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Ben Scripps, a Jeopardy alum who won twice on the show in 2020, has died. Scripps died at age 52 on Saturday, Sept. 20, in Holland, Mich., the Dykstra Funeral Home announced in his death notice. His brother, Bubba Mack, said that he died following a battle with cancer in an Instagram post. Scripps won $18,000 during his first Jeopardy appearance on May 18, 2020, which came during Alex Trebek's final year as the host of the show. He triumphed again the following day with an additional $19,358, bringing his two-day total to $38,158. His streak ended on May 20 when he lost to Nathan Berger. The former champion's obituary stated that Scripps "had a lifelong dream to be on Jeopardy," noting that he qualified to compete in 2019 after taking an online test and trying out for the show in Chicago. Born Gordon Benjamin Scripps in Cadillac, Mich., in 1972, the Jeopardy alum knew from a young age that he wanted to work in television. He studied broadcasting at Central Michigan University and worked for the news team at Cadillac's local CBS station, Channels 9 & 10, where he began by covering high school football games and ended his career producing the news from behind the switcher board. Mack said that his brother was extraordinarily gracious during his last days in the hospital. "In his final days the nurses and doctors would all say wow you’re a Jeopardy! champion, you must be really smart," Scripps' brother wrote. "He would reply with nope just good at trivia, you’re a nurse (or doc), you’re the smart one in the room. While he hated being in the hospital, he could not stop singing the praises of all the nurses who cared for him. Using energy that he just didn’t have to let them know how much he appreciated them." Mack remembered his brother as a kindhearted soul. "Ben lived his life on his terms and knew exactly who he was... and he was terrific!" he wrote. "Simply the most kind, caring, gentle, and forgiving person I’ve ever known. I had the chance to ask him if he was scared and he thought about for a good while (I swear I heard the Jeopardy! theme) and then said 'No, because whatever is next is either nothing or it’s better.'" Mack ended his post with a touching tribute to his sibling's time on the iconic game show. "I'll take the best brother ever for $2,000 please Alex," he wrote. "'This Cadillac news director was the best of the human race and will be missed greatly by anyone who knew him.' Who was Ben Scripps 12/25/72 - 9/20/25." |
posted 9/25/2025 |
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Thursday Lightning Round |
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"Shark Tank" Swims to Wednesday |
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For the majority of its first 16 seasons, the “Shark Tank” natural habitat was at Friday night on the ABC schedule. However, Season 17 is set to premiere Wednesday night alongside “The Golden Bachelor” — but the business-savvy team welcomes the changing tides. “We used to be on a different night and ABC moved us to Friday. At that time, nobody watched TV on Fridays and I distinctly remember having a conversation with ABC executives asking, ‘You say you love the show, why are you moving it there? It’ll die there!’ ” executive producer Clay Newbill told TheWrap at ABC’s Summer Soirée earlier this month. “I was wrong, they were right. So, honestly, I trust them — a lot of effort and work and thought goes into it before they make a move like that. Plus, the interesting thing is our lead-in will be ‘The Golden Bachelor,’ which if you look at the demos, both reality.” “We like to keep the show pretty uniform with the formula, but how we really mix it up is with the Guest Sharks,” fellow EP Yun Lingner added. “That’s a really important component of the show, because everybody has a different perspective about business and the entrepreneurs that come in every season are really a natural reflection of what’s going on in business. Like at the beginning of the show, people didn’t sell on social media, right? But now that’s everything. So it’s just a natural kind of manifestation of what’s really going on.” Some of this season’s Guest Sharks include Michael Strahan, Chip Gaines and Joanna Gaines. However, another familiar face will also be seen on the show: Pete Davidson — only as an entrepreneur, not a Shark. |
posted 9/24/2025 |
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More on "The Road" |
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CBS' new music competition series THE ROAD has revealed exciting new prizes, including a coveted performance slot on the iconic Mane Stage at Stagecoach Country Music Festival 2026 in Indio, Calif., for the grand prize winner and an exclusive Red Bull prize package. These additions join the previously announced grand prize: a $250,000 cash award and a recording contract. THE ROAD's new extended premiere airs Sunday, Oct. 19 (9:00-10:30 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network and will be available to stream live and on-demand on Paramount+*. Further details about the record deal were also announced. The winner will receive a recording contract with Country Road Records, a division of 101 Studios, in partnership with Thirty Tigers. Red Bull will provide the winner of the competition the opportunity to perform live at Red Bull Jukebox. Additionally, the two runners-up will receive five recording sessions at Red Bull Studio Los Angeles, a state-of-the-art recording space that includes a full range of instruments and cutting-edge equipment designed to empower artists and give wings to their ideas. THE ROAD is produced by Paramount Television Studios, Taylor Sheridan (Bosque Ranch Productions), Blake Shelton (Lucky Horseshoe Productions), David Glasser (101 Studios), Lee Metzger (Lucky Horseshoe Productions) and Keith Urban. |
posted 9/24/2025 |
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