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Jack Dunn Amazon Prime Video has officially ordered a 20-episode season of “Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity?” from MGM Alternative, the streamer announced Tuesday. As previously reported by Variety, the “Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?” spinoff will be hosted by Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce.

Travis Kelce has officially become a game show host.

Fire away.Before Donald Trump was the 45th president of the United States, he was the host of a little show called “The Apprentice.”The NBC business-competition show ran for 15 seasons, with the entrepreneur helming the round table from 2004 until 2017.Trump left the show in 2015 so he could focus on his presidential campaign — a race he won a year later. In author Ramin Setoodeh’s forthcoming book, “Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Through the Looking Glass,” Trump reveals that he wanted his daughter Ivanka Trump to sub in for him on the show.

Donald Trump had plans for The Apprentice.

William Earl When Donald Trump left his seat in the boardroom as the star of his long-running NBC reality series “The Apprentice” in 2015, in order to run for president of the United States, he had a clear successor in mind. “I said, ‘The best person to hire would be Ivanka Trump,’” Donald Trump says.

Keith Urban is joining the U.S. version of The Voice.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Jamie Foxx is returning to once again host Fox’s musical game show “Beat Shazam,” after he took last season off in the wake of his hospitalization for a still-undisclosed medical emergency. Nick Cannon took over as host last season. Foxx’s daughter, Corinne Foxx, is also back as the show’s co-host DJ, after she was temporarily replaced last season by Kelly Osbourne.

Diego Boneta (Luis Miguel: The Series, Father of the Bride) is set to lead the newly greenlit bilingual series El Gato (w/t), based on the comic book series El Gato Negro by Richard Dominguez. Production is anticipated to begin this spring in Mexico.

Prime Video has picked up the family drama series The Baxters, from LightWorkers Media, the faith and family-focused company founded by Mark Burnett and Roma Downey which is owned by Amazon MGM Studios through Amazon’s the acquisition of LightWorkers parent MGM.

Billionaire Mark Cuban recently sold his majority interest in the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks. He’ll stay on to run basketball operations, but he wants to share in the windfall he received on the sale.

Mark Cuban is ready to exit Shark Tank.

Wynonna Judd will join The Voice as a mega mentor for Season 24, NBC announced today.

EXCLUSIVE: Blumhouse CEO and founder Jason Blum is among the Guest Sharks joining ABC’s Shark Tank for the upcoming 15th season. He will be joined by fellow Guest Sharks, Fanatics chairman & CEO Michael Rubin; Candace Nelson, founder of Sprinkles Cupcakes and CN2 Ventures and Pizzana co-founder; along with returning Guest Shark Emma Grede, CEO and co-founder of Good American and founding partner of Skims. Daniel Lubetzky, founder of Kind Snacks, Camino Partners and Starts With Us, is returning as a recurring Guest Shark.

EXCLUSIVE: There’s a change at the top of Eureka Productions, the company behind unscripted series such as Fox’s Farmer Wants A Wife and Netflix’s The Mole.

MGM Studios’ production partnership with Dutch format creator Concept Street has come to an end.

Survivor is back in the Emmy race.

EXCLUSIVE: MGM Alternative is undergoing some leadership changes.

NBC’s musical competition series The Voice revealed Grammy winners Dan + Shay will be the show’s first-coaching duo for Season 25. The show is set to air in Spring 2024.

EXCLUSIVE: Mark Burnett is in talks to launch his next production venture following his departure from Amazon-owned MGM.

Reba McEntire will take a seat in one of the red chairs as a coach for Season 24 of NBC’s Emmy Award- winning musical competition series “The Voice” airing this fall. The country superstar, multimedia entertainment mogul and Country Music Hall of Fame inductee, who served as a mentor in Season 23, will join returning coaches John Legend, Niall Horan and Gwen Stefani.The announcement was made during NBC’s upfront presentation to advertisers on Monday.“The Voice” is a presentation of MGM Television, Warner Bros.

BreAnna Bell After serving as Season 23’s mega mentor on “The Voice,” Reba McEntire is officially returning to Season 24 as a coach. The announcement was confirmed at NBCU’s upfront presentation on Monday. The Country Music Hall of Fame inductee joins veteran coach John Legend and returning coaches Niall Horan and Gwen Stefani. Season 23 returns on Monday, May 15 at 8 p.m. ET/PT with a two-hour semi-final. The top 8 artists will face off live for the first time in front of coaches for their chance at a spot in the finale. Viewers will vote for their favorite artist in real time, and the results will be revealed at the end of the show.

Country music star Reba McEntire, who’s coming off a role as mega mentor on Season 23 of NBC’s The Voice, has been promoted to judge for Season 24, taking over Blake Shelton’s red chair. She joins veteran coach John Legend and returning coaches Hiall Noran and Gwen Stefani. This will be the first season without Shelton, who announced in October 2022 that Season 23 would be his last.

Jamie Foxx has spoken out for the first time since suffering a "medical complication" in April. Foxx took to Instagram on Wednesday writing, "Appreciate all the love!!! Feeling blessed." He also thanked Nick Cannon for stepping into his role as the host of FOX's "Beat Shazam." Cannon and Kelly Osbourne have been tapped to take over Foxx's role on "Beat Shazam." Cannon will guest host for the sixth season, according to the show's Instagram, while Osbourne will be in the DJ booth for Foxx's daughter Corinne.

hospitalized after experiencing an undisclosed “medical complication” in April.“Beat Shazam,” an interactive game show hosted by Foxx and his daughter Corinne, pits two teams against each other as they are tasked with identifying the biggest hit songs of all time. The winning team with the most money banked will then compete against the Shazam app for an opportunity to win $1 million.“Beat Shazam has been an unscripted mainstay on the FOX schedule for six seasons and counting,” the show posted on Instagram.

Nick Cannon and Kelly Osbourne have been tapped to take over Jamie Foxx's role on "Beat Shazam" as the actor deals with a mysterious "medical complication." Cannon will guest host for the sixth season, according to the show's Instagram, while Osbourne will be in the DJ booth for Foxx's daughter Corinne. "'Beat Shazam' has been an unscripted mainstay on the FOX schedule for six season and counting," a statement shared by the show read.

Nick Cannon is set to replace Jamie Foxx as host of Fox game show Beat Shazam after the latter remains hospitalized.

Fox has revealed summer premiere dates for shows including Crime Scene Kitchen, Beat Shazam, Don’t Forget The Lyrics, Gordon Ramsay’s Food Stars and MasterChef.

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon restructured MGM’s television business at the end of November but it seems that there’s more movement in that department.

CBS is getting its business done early with a raft of renewals including its stable of reality shows.

EXCLUSIVE: There was a lot of focus on the fact that Jay Leno’s Garage was canceled by CNBC on Thursday, but it turns out the rubber has met the road on the executive front as well.

Audrina Patridge, maybe known best for her starring role on MTV reality series The Hills and reboot The Hills: New Beginnings, has signed with A3 Artists Agency for representation.  

Mark Burnett, Chairman of MGM’s Worldwide Television Group, is exiting after the company’s $8.5B acquisition by Amazon.

The “what if?” game has always fascinated me: What if Donald Trump had been cast in Shark Tank rather than The Apprentice (it was Mark Burnett’s call)? He likely would have been broke rather than president.

EXCLUSIVE: Andrew Hunt is set to direct Deadmen from a script he also wrote. In addition, the filmmaker has inked with Zero Gravity Management for representation.

Gwyneth Paltrow is heading into the Shark Tank.

EXCLUSIVE: Wanda Sykes is knocking on the door of syndication with a new series that features videos taken from Ring doorbells.