This week: a second season for Nation’s Dumbest, Halloween on CBS, ABC’s holiday game show dates, and free games on GameShows.com.
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Nation’s Dumbest gets a second season. FOX has renewed its celebrity game show Nation’s Dumbest, and Jack Whitehall will return as host. Give Me My Remote reported the renewal on October 27, with statements from FOX and Whitehall. The report gives no premiere date yet.
This week’s game show news
Today: Halloween on CBS. The Price Is Right and Let’s Make a Deal both have Halloween episodes on Friday, October 30: a Dungeons & Dragons quest on Price, and a haunted forest on Deal. Our Halloween preview covers both.
Wheel’s Halloween Week opens with a big win. Spoilers through October 26: Isidro “Izzy” Aleman, from Las Vegas, finished with $75,787 in cash and prizes, including $45,000 from the Bonus Round. TV Insider’s recap shows how it added up.
A new Jeopardy! champion. Spoilers through October 28: Stefanie Landeweer won with $19,400, ending Shannon Leigh Godwin’s run at three wins and $40,602. See the official box scores.
ABC sets two holiday game show dates. Celebrity Family Feud has a holiday episode on Thursday, December 3, and Press Your Luck on Thursday, December 10, both at 8 p.m. See ABC’s announcement, and our holiday guide for CBS’s Price Is Right specials too.
Millionaire’s season finale. ABC listed its October 28 episode of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire as the season finale, with Sarah Jane Nader and Brooks Nader, and Colin Jost and Michael Che, in the hot seat. See ABC’s listing.
Coming up
Monday, November 2: Name That Tune and Celebrity Weakest Link. FOX has new episodes of both, at 8 p.m. and 9:01 p.m. ET/PT. See FOX’s schedule.
Wednesday, November 4: The Floor, 99 to Beat and Celebrity Wheel. FOX has new episodes of The Floor at 8 p.m. and 99 to Beat at 9:02 p.m. ET/PT (FOX’s schedule). On ABC, Michael Urie, Yvonne Orji and Hasan Minhaj play Celebrity Wheel of Fortune at 9:02 p.m. ET.
Wednesday, November 18: Win the Mall on Netflix. Netflix’s new shopping competition, with ten teams of shoppers, launches November 18.
Friday, November 20: another Celebrity Wheel. Rhys Darby, Jackie Tohn and David Cross take a spin at 8 p.m. ET. See ABC’s listing.
Now casting
Application pages checked October 29.
Jeopardy! The official Anytime Test is open to U.S. and Canadian residents ages 18+. Read our application guide for what happens after the test.
Family Feud. The official application form is open. The show has no age requirement but suggests contestants be 15 or older, and the form itself must be submitted by someone 18 or older, so a parent or legal guardian submits for anyone younger. Read our application guide for the steps.
What fans are talking about
Is Jeopardy! getting harder? Fans have noticed fewer long winning streaks this season. Our new analysis compares the first 32 games of this season with the same stretch of the last two, and explains why streaks alone can’t settle whether the clues are harder.
New on GameShows.com
The Chase UK: applications and tickets. Published October 24: where to apply, and which episodes have a studio audience.
Holiday game show specials 2026. Published October 28: the holiday game show episodes ABC and CBS have announced so far.
New game shows in 2027. Updated October 28, with Jeopardy!’s 2027 tournaments and the latest on Stacks of Cash and Clue.
Free games on GameShows.com
A little game time, whenever it suits you. Since October 24, GameShows.com has free games: solitaire (Classic, Spider, FreeCell and Pyramid), mahjong, Sudoku, 2048, logic puzzles, jigsaw puzzles, word search and a match-3 game, with daily challenges. There’s no sign-up or download, and a game in progress is waiting if you come back. There’s also a play-money casino with slots, blackjack, roulette and Texas Hold’em; its chips have no cash value.
Before you go: play today’s Answer Me!, our free daily trivia game.