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EXCLUSIVE: ABC is keeping hold of vowels, consonants and questions after renewing Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!. The Disney company's owned and operated stations have ponied up a big increase to keep the long-running gameshows on their schedule. Deadline understands that it has renewed both…

Paramount Global’s free streaming outlet Pluto TV has launched channels dedicated to syndication mainstays Judge Judy and Let’s Make a Deal and plans to debut Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! channels on August 1. The moves are part of a broader reorganization and expansion of the programming categories offered by…

Wheel of Fortune has found its new boss. Bellamie Blackstone has been named exec producer of the game show as it heads into its 40th season. Separately, longtime supervising producer Steve Schwartz has been promoted to co-exec producer. This comes after Wheel of Fortune was caught in the crossfire of last year's Jeopar…

On tonight’s episode of SNL, Weekend Update‘s anchors tackled topics ranging from criticisms of HBO’s Euphoria and Wheel of Fortune contestants, to Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill and more. Colin Jost noted that fans of the hit HBO series Euphoria have been “harshly criticizing” creator Sam Levinson for “sexualizing&#8221…

Three Wheel of Fortune contestants last night took a staggering 10 attempts to solve a puzzle that was missing only four letters: "Another feather _n yo_r _a_." One woman guessed “Another feather in your hat,” “Another feather in your lap” and “Another feather in your map,” to no avail. Another contestant guessed the…

Dick Carson, brother of TV legend Johnny Carson and a former director for The Tonight Show, died December 19 at his home in Studio City, CA, following a brief illness, his family said. He was 92. Richard Charles Carson, was born in Clarinda, IA, the youngest of three children of Homer Lloyd ("Kit") and Ruth Hook…

There were two big winners for the Los Angeles Lakers on Friday night. While the NBA basketball team was pounding the Oklahoma City Thunder, beating them 116-95, former Lakers guard and current South Bay Lakers player Andre Ingram was a cash winner on the syndicated game show Wheel of Fortune. Ingram appeared Friday…

With Jeopardy! in a host vacuum following the botched search for a successor to the beloved Alex Trebek, Sony Pictures Television has locked in the hosts of its other hugely popular — and profitable — syndicated game show, Wheel of Fortune. Pat Sajak and Vanna White have signed on to continue hosting the show through…

Wheel of Fortune is getting a celebrity spinoff series for the first time at ABC. The network has ordered a series of Celebrity Wheel of Fortune, which will see the long-running game show make its primetime debut. The spin-off will be hosted by Pat Sajak and Vanna White and will see celebrity contestants come spin the…

Long-running gameshow Wheel of Fortune is back in the studio and its COVID-friendly episodes are set to start airing later this month. The show returns with new episodes, kicking off its 38th season, on September 14. Deadline revealed at the end of July that the syndicated show was going through a couple of…

EXCLUSIVE: Two of America's longest-running game shows, Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! are heading back to the studio. Both shows were hit by the COVID-19 production shutdown, but Deadline understands that both syndicated shows, which come from Sony Pictures Television and CBS Television Distribution, are set to start…

“I’ll be selling vowels for a long time,” Wheel of Fortune host Pat Sajak promised viewers in an exclusive interview with ABC’s Good Morning America today. In his first interview since undergoing emergency surgery last month to correct a painful blocked intestine, Sajak shared details of his medical condition, his Whee…