CBS Reboots Hollywood Squares Centered on Drew Barrymore
AFF/Steven Bergman
CBS is rebooting Hollywood Squares with Drew Barrymore front and center. The Tiffany Network announced on Thursday that it will be bringing back the classic game show and will begin broadcasting in January in the midseason with Barrymore. She will be the legendary "center square,” answering questions for the contestants, CBS revealed at a press conference on Thursday.
As viewers of the show recall, Hollywood Squares' premise is that two contestants play tic-tac-toe in order to win money and prizes, with celebs being asked questions and contestants deciding to go with their judgment or not. The game board is a vertical stack of open-faced cubes with celebs inside each, facing the contestants. The series originally debuted on NBC from 1966 to 1981 and returned from 1988 to 2004, with Whoopi Goldberg being the center square until 2002, when she departed. The show went on to have rotating guest celebs as the center square, with Martin Mull taking over the role permanently until the show's end in 2004.
Barrymore will produce via her Flower Films, along with Jesse Collins for Jesse Collins Entertainment.
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