The CW’s fall schedule includes a number of new unscripted series such as a game show night on Mondays with Trivial Pursuit and Scrabble as well as the return of Whose Line Is It Anyway?
But there was no room for one of the network’s longest-running hits, Penn & Teller: Fool Us. Much like in scripted, The CW has a number of decisions to make and the return of the magic competition series is one of them.
The show has run for ten seasons and more than 150 episodes since launching 2011. Its tenth season premiered in October and recently wrapped a 20-episode order.
The CW President of Entertainment Brad Schwartz told Deadline that it has the fourth quarter “locked”. “If there is a new season of Penn & Teller, that’ll be top of 2025,” he said. “Penn & Teller has obviously been just a crazy consistent performer and we did 20 new episodes of that last year,” he said. “One of our priorities is trying to find something behind it, something to pair with that.” RELATED: ‘Wild Cards’ Still Expected To Be Renewed For Season 2 At The CW FBoy Island was one of The CW’s biggest bets in unscripted.
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