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Star Wars: Jedi Temple Challenge, a new game show aimed at kids and hosted by Jar Jar Binks actor Ahmed Best, will premiere on the Disney+ subscription streaming service in 2020. The live-action skills game show is a first for the Star Wars brand, which  is getting major Disney investment these days with J.J. Abrams’ T…

Survey says: Family Feud is going international — Africa to be specific. Steve Harvey has been set to launch and host versions of Fremantle’s Family Feud in South Africa and Ghana. In an unprecedented deal with Fremantle, Harvey's media company Steve Harvey Global has obtained the rights to license the format for the…

Star Trek will mind-meld with Lets Make a Deal for a special all-Trekkie episode of the CBS game show on February 4, with official Star Trek prizes, props, costumes, and a special guest appearance by Mary Chieffo from Star Trek: Discovery. You can watch an exclusive preview clip above. The partnering represents a…

The Paley Center for Media in New York will mark the 35th anniversary of syndicated game show Wheel of Fortune with a special exhibition and a live event with executive producer Harry Friedman and on-air personalities Pat Sajak and Vanna White looking back at the show’s history. The exhibit, “Wheel of Fortune: 35…

Every Hollywood screenwriter knows that the way to ratchet up tension is to introduce a ticking clock. And that's just what ITV is doing with the next series of Who Wants To Be a Millionaire over here. Contestants will have just 15 seconds to answer the £500 and £1,000 questions. They'll have 30 seconds to answer…

FremantleMedia's game show Hole in the Wall is back in a new family format on a new net, Cartoon Network. Cartoon has ordered 10 episodes of the show based on a Japanese format in which players must contort themselves to fit through cutouts in a large Styrofoam wall moving towards them. In Cartoon Network's version…

After a 6 year legal maneuvering and a month-long trial, the $250 million case of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? producer Celador v. Disney over profits from the hit game show is now in the hands of the jury. Throughout the parade of witnesses, Celador seemed to prove that it earned less than it could have from the…