Nearly all of ABC summer game shows and reality competitions and their hosts will return in the summer of 2020.
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The Mole’s format is being used for a new ABC game show
The Hustler’s format was created by a UK TV host who says it’s based on mysteries such as Agatha Christie’s writing or the show Broadchurch. But it has The Mole’s DNA at its core.
Kids Say the Darndest Things: answers to questions about the new Tiffany Haddish version
Are the kids actors? Do the producers know what they’re going to say? Why is Tiffany Haddish hosting the new series? Answers to those questions and many more.
Press Your Luck’s return stays true to the original, but also adds a Whammy of a surprise
The very first Whammy of the night was a Whammy version of Bachelor host Chris Harrison, and it only got better from there.
Press Your Luck and Card Sharks are being resurrected by ABC
Two more classic game shows are coming to ABC, and both are now casting.
Review: ABC’s Castaways, a survival series with shades of Survivor, Lost, and Alone
ABC’s new survival series is familiar and promising, and flashes between the cast’s attempt to survive and their home lives, but it also drags.
ABC’s Castaways looks like Alone (and Lost), but with resources and a twist
A new reality series that’ll be paired with Bachelor in Paradise will strand people and flash back to their regular lives.
Family Food Fight: a new cooking competition on ABC, imported from Australia
ABC has ordered a U.S. version of an Australian cooking competition, Family Food Fight, which will have families cooking and competing against each other. Ayesha Curry will host and judge.
An outstanding reality podcast, Startup, becomes an ABC sitcom
ABC’s Alex Inc., starring Zach Braff, is an adaptation of Gimlet Media’s first podcast, and I asked its producer about how much of the real-life podcast will make it to TV.
Encore, Kristen Bell’s reunion of high school theater classmates, needs to be a full series immediately
High school classmates reuniting after 20 years to once again put on a production of Into the Woods in their high school auditorium, mentored by Kristen Bell and a team of Broadway talent: Why isn’t this already a full series?… continue reading
The Toy Box has improved in its second season
A review of season two of ABC’s The Toy Box, which has a new format, new judges, and less Noah.
Battle of the Network Stars’ cast of 100 classic and current TV stars
A full list of the full cast of ABC’s revival of Battle of the Network Stars, which will have 100 former and current TV stars competing with each other.
The Toy Box: kids have finally ruined a reality show
A review of ABC and Mattel’s new reality competition series The Toy Box, on which toymakers pitch their toys to kid judges, who ruin everything.
“Hey Jimmy Kimmel, I Told My Kids I Ate All Their Halloween Candy” is not funny, it’s sick
For the sixth year, Jimmy Kimmel Live has featured a segment during which parents lie to their kids and cause them emotional pain for our entertainment.
All four of ABC’s game shows will return next year
ABC has renewed Match Game, The $100,000 Pyramid, Celebrity Family Feud, and To Tell the Truth, all of which are doing well in the ratings.