'Celebrity Wheel' coming to primetime on ABC

My next question/speculation...

With the show's being an hour long, how are they going to format it? Two games makes more sense to me. If they stretched one whole game to an hour, then theoretically, they could have 8 regular rounds of play. I think it would be awkward to do two Toss-ups, 3 rounds, Triple Toss-up, one more round, then repeat again. I could see them doing like Feud. My only concern would be if they give too much time to the celebs, it takes away from gameplay. I know there have been a handful of Celeb Feud episodes that only have one game for the whole hour because of the amount of time focused on the celebs.

Celebrity Wheel's Thursday time slot will hold for eight weeks. On March 4, Thursdays revert to scripted series.

www.thetvratingsguide.com/2020/11/abc-announces-midseason-2020-schedule.html

New promo, confirming there will only be eight episodes.

This was probably taped before production began, but notice the shot of the Wheel has Free Play replaced with $3500.

I'm more surprised that confirms we're going to see an hour of the same three celebrities. I know that the game will inevitably move slower because of trying to be funny, but I really hope this is't painful as the episodes of Celebrity Family Feud that were artificially extended from a 30-minute to a 60-minute episode.

Given that the promo says "24 Celebrities" and "8 Week Event", I can see a few possibilities:
* Two front games, highest total score after Game 2 plays the Bonus Round.
* Each half-hour is its own game, with the season structured like a tournament: 8 winners across the first four hours plus highest score among non-winners, then a two-front-games format for three hour-long Semifinal shows, and then a single hour-long Finals game. Tournament winner gets another $1,000,000 or somesuch without needing to clear an extra hurdle (looking at you, Jeopardy! '79 and Trump Card).
* Each hour is self-contained and they really will stretch the standard format out, probably with no changes to the payouts.

^I’d assume so, at least partially.

Think again.

Whatever Mike and co. come up with, hopefully they don’t find a way to make it a complete chore to sit through.

The series premiere will rerun on Sunday, January 10 at 8:00 PM Eastern/Pacific, replacing Supermarket Sweep, which wraps up its first season the week prior. This is only a one-time thing; Millionaire takes over the slot starting 1/17 to finish off its second season.

Although it will be a repeat, this must be the first time in decades that Wheel of Fortune has officially aired on TV across most of the nation all seven days of the week. WOF Weekend and Wheel 2000 are/were officially Saturday series despite some stations independently scheduling them for Sundays, and I believe GSN hasn't aired Wheel on a Sunday since 2000 when they were running Seasons 13 and 14.