Hollywood Squares (2025)
Hollywood Squares (2025)
Plot.
Where to Watch.




Currently Hollywood Squares is available for streaming online, rent, buy or watch for free on: Spectrum On Demand, Paramount Plus, Paramount+ Amazon Channel, Paramount Plus Apple TV Channel
Streaming in:🇺🇸 United States
Cast & Crew.

Nate Burleson
Self - Host

Drew Barrymore
Self / Executive Producer

Vicki Lawrence
Self - Panelist

Jesse Collins
Executive Producer

Dionne Harmon
Executive Producer

Madison Merritt
Executive Producer

Elaine Metaxas
Executive Producer

Joey Ortega
Consulting Producer

Collin L. Howard
Associate Producer

Tyra Banks
Self

Julie Bowen
Self

Whitney Cummings
Self

Tiffany Haddish
Self

Thomas Lennon
Self

Patricia Williams
Self

Tichina Arnold
Self

Nicole Byer
Self

Drew Carey
Self

Pete Holmes
Self

Debi Mazar
Self

Bobby Moynihan
Self

Chelsea Peretti
Self

Jeff Ross
Self

Robert Smigel
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog (voice)

JB Smoove
Self

Sam Jay
Self

Andrew Rannells
Self

Sheryl Underwood
Self

Margaret Cho
Self

Leslie Jones
Self

Ross Mathews
Self

Kevin Nealon
Self

Carson Kressley
Self

Paul Scheer
Self

RuPaul
Self

Jay Leno
Self

Tanner Adell
Self

Patton Oswalt
Self

Chaka Khan
Self

Nelly
Self

Jeff Dunham
Self

Lil Rel Howery
Self

Max Greenfield
Self

Rita Moreno
Self

Luenell
Self

Phil Rosenthal
Self

Jeannie Mai
Self

Mayim Bialik
Self

Justin Long
Self

Jimmy O. Yang
Self

Kristen Schaal
Self

Marsai Martin
Self

Casey Wilson
Self

Kathy Hilton
Self

Andra Day
Self

Mickey Guyton
Self

Wiz Khalifa
Self

Dionne Warwick
Self

Ron Funches
Self

Jay Pharoah
Self

Dusty Slay
Self

Beth Behrs
Self

Tony Gonzalez
Self

Aida Rodríguez
Self
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Details.
Release DateJanuary 16, 2025
StatusReturning Series
Seasons1
Episodes16
Content RatingTV-14
Genres
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This TV Show Is About.
Wiki.
Hollywood Squares (originally The Hollywood Squares, later stylized as H2: Hollywood Squares) is an American game show in which two contestants compete in a game of tic-tac-toe to win cash and prizes. The show originally aired as a pilot on NBC in 1965, and debuted on NBC as a regular series in October 1966. The board for the game is a 3 × 3 vertical stack of open-faced cubes, each occupied by a celebrity seated at a desk facing the contestants. The stars are asked questions by the host and the contestants judge the truth of their answers to gain squares in the right pattern to win the game.
Though Hollywood Squares was a legitimate game show, the game largely acted as the background for the show's comedy in the form of joke answers (commonly called "zingers" by the production staff), often given by the stars prior to their real answer. The show's writers usually supplied the jokes. In addition, the stars were given the questions' subjects and bluffs prior to the show. The show was scripted in this sense, but the gameplay was not. The original host Peter Marshall explained at the beginning of the Secret Square game, "the celebrities were briefed before the show to help them with bluff answers, but they are hearing the actual questions for the first time."
Marshall hosted the original version of Hollywood Squares that aired on NBC from 1966 to 1980, as well as a nighttime syndicated version that ran from 1971 to 1981. It then returned to NBC in 1983 as part of a 60-minute hybrid series with Match Game, featuring Jon Bauman hosting the Hollywood Squares portion of that show. Following Marshall's retirement, the show has since been revived twice in syndication: a version hosted by John Davidson from 1986 to 1989, and another hosted by Tom Bergeron from 1998 to 2004. Three revivals were run in the 2010s with a different title all on Paramount cable channels; in 2012, Hip Hop Squares on MTV2 with Peter Rosenberg, and from 2017 to 2019 on VH1 with DeRay Davis, in 2019, Nashville Squares on CMT with Bob Saget, and in 2023, Celebrity Squares on VH1 with John "DC Young Fly" Whitfield.
In 2013, TV Guide ranked it at No. 7 in its list of the 60 greatest game shows ever. Internationally, there have been multiple versions produced under a variety of names (see International versions below). When combined with two spinoffs of the franchise, the show has been produced for seven different decades.
In May 2024, it was announced that the show would be revived by CBS (which has owned the rights to the program since 2000, when it acquired format owner King World), with Drew Barrymore as a co-executive producer and center square, and Nate Burleson as host. The series premiered on January 16, 2025. On February 24, 2025, the revival was renewed for a second season.