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Michael Strahan and an entire new batch of celebrities and contestants can be again for an eighth season subsequent yr. The $100,000 Pyramid has been renewed by ABC. The seventh season completed airing final December. No new episodes have aired in 2024.
A primetime sport present, The $100,000 Pyramid TV collection is the most recent iteration of a format that launched in daytime in 1973. Strahan hosts this latest incarnation. The competitors pits two groups of two — a contestant and a star — towards each other. In the primary sport, the companions take turns serving to the opposite guess a collection of phrases or phrases primarily based on descriptions given to them by their teammates. The successful crew then strikes onto the Winner’s Circle with a pyramid-shaped gameboard. If a crew can full the pyramid’s six classes in 60 seconds, the contestant wins $50,000. If the contestant can win the second spherical of the primary sport (teamed with the opposite celeb), they will win a further $100,000. Seventh season celebrities embody Jason Alexander, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Lauren Ash, Joel Kim Booster, Wayne Brady, Dan Bucatinsky, Fortune Feimster, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Ana Gasteyer, Tiffany Haddish, Oscar Nunez, and Rosie O’Donnell.
Airing on Wednesday nights, the seventh season of The $100,000 Pyramid averaged a 0.28 ranking within the 18-49 demographic and a pair of.78 million viewers. Compared to season six, that’s down by 23% within the demo and down by 14% in viewership within the reside+identical day scores (together with DVR playback via 3:00 AM).
The renewal doesn’t come a lot of a shock as Strahan talked about filming 20 new episodes in May 2023. He wrote, “That’s a wrap on shooting season seven of The $100,000 Pyramid. We shot 20 shows over four days and couldn’t be more grateful to you all. So much goes into a show like this. I can’t thank our Pyramid team enough. We can never do this without each one of you. Special thank you to all our celebrity guests for coming on and winnowing our guests some $$$$!! And to everyone who tunes in each week to The $100,000 Pyramid, you are in for a treat for season seven. Coming soon to ABC. See you in the winner’s circle.”
The community solely aired ten episodes for season seven, so the remaining ten have now been designated as season eight. Whether extra installments have been filmed to increase the brand new season is unknown.
Season eight of Pyramid launches on Sunday, March ninth.
What do you think? Do you look ahead to seeing new episodes of The $100,000 Pyramid on ABC? Are you glad the sport present has been renewed for an eighth season?
