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Celebrity Family Feud
Genre	Game show
Based on	Family Feud by Mark Goodson
Directed by	Ken Fuchs
Presented by	Al Roker Steve Harvey
Narrated by	Burton Richardson Rubin Ervin
Theme music composer	Walt Levinsky
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	11
No. of episodes	108 (list of episodes)
Production
Running time	45–48 minutes
Production companies	Fremantle Feudin' Productions (2008) Triple Threat Productions (2015–present)
Original release
Network	NBC
Release	June 24 (2008-06-24) – July 29, 2008 (2008-07-29)
Network	ABC
Release	June 21, 2015 (2015-06-21) – present

Celebrity Family Feud is a broadcast network spin-off of the syndicated American game show Family Feud. Like the primetime All-Star Specials aired during the late 1970s and early 1980s by the show's then-network home ABC, the episodes feature celebrities and their real families, or teams of celebrities playing as a 'family' for charity, rather than the regular format of ordinary families playing for cash and prizes.

Since 2015, the series has aired as part of ABC's "Summer Fun & Games" block of primetime game shows.

History

Early incarnations

Family Feud spin-offs with celebrity contestants date back to the show's original, Richard Dawson-hosted incarnation on ABC, which —from May 8, 1978 until May 25, 1984—occasionally featured primetime "All-Star Specials" played between teams of cast members from different television series (but most often fellow ABC shows).

NBC run

In March 2008, NBC announced that a spin-off of the current syndicated run of Family Feud—Celebrity Family Feud—would air during its summer lineup that year. It was promoted as part of "All-American Summer"—a slate of reality and game shows being aired by NBC in the lead-up to the 2008 Summer Olympics (including fellow FremantleMedia series America's Got Talent).

Instead of featuring the host of the syndicated version at the time, John O'Hurley (who was hosting the short-lived Secret Talents of the Stars for CBS), Celebrity Family Feud was instead hosted by Al Roker of NBC's morning show Today. This incarnation only lasted for one season before it was cancelled in March 2009. This edition of the show taped a total of six episodes, with the first episode airing on June 24, 2008 and the last episode airing on July 29, 2008.

ABC run

On April 9, 2015, ABC announced that it had picked up a new incarnation of Celebrity Family Feud, premiering on June 21, 2015 and hosted by Steve Harvey—the current host of the syndicated version of Family Feud. It marked the first time that any version of Family Feud aired on ABC since the end of the original version hosted by Richard Dawson in June 1985. Unlike the current syndicated version of Feud, which was taped in Atlanta, Georgia from 2011 until 2017 and again since 2020, this version has always been produced in Los Angeles, California, and features the return of Burton Richardson, who announced the syndicated edition of Family Feud from 1999 to 2010, to the series.

The show has been renewed annually, with an eleventh season ordered in February 2024. Under the terms of Fremantle's agreement with ABC, the network has a strict limit on how many episodes of Celebrity Family Feud it can release each season, so as not to compete against Family Feud's regular run in syndication.

The eleventh season, which began airing in July 2024, featured Myeshia Mizuno assuming the role of showrunner, and Rubin Ervin (the current announcer of the syndicated version of Family Feud) replacing Richardson as announcer. The order for season 11 also included two The Best of Family Feud clip shows presented by Harvey—Decades of Laughs (a retrospective featuring notable moments spanning the history of the show's run), and The Best of Steve Harvey.

Series overview

Format

During the NBC run of Celebrity Family Feud, each episode featured a tournament format with three matches. The winners of the two semi-final matches played a final game, with the winner advancing to Fast Money. While the matches were still played to 300 points as usual, each match consisted of only three rounds (two single rounds and a triple round, with sudden death if needed, and no double round). In Fast Money, if one or both team members accrued at least 200 points, the group won $50,000 for their charity; otherwise, $25,000 was awarded to the group's charity if they failed. Families that lost and did not play Fast Money received $10,000 for their charity.

The ABC version does not use a tournament format and follows the same format as the syndicated version. Most episodes feature two self-contained games, each concluding with Fast Money. Some episodes in later seasons consist of a single hour-long game instead, extended with an extra round and the game being played to 500 points instead of 300. Winning teams earn $25,000 for their chosen charity by scoring 200 points in Fast Money, or $10,000 if they do not; teams that lose the main game earn $5,000 for their charity. In two episodes where both teams played for the same charity, Fast Money was played jointly by one member of each team.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the eighth and ninth seasons used a different staging for social distancing reasons, consisting of individual podiums in a staggered layout for each team member; this also allowed some teams to have six players instead of the standard five.

International versions

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External links

• Official website (NBC version/via Internet Archive)
• Official website (ABC version)
• Celebrity Family Feud at IMDb

• 2008 American television series debuts
• 2008 American television series endings
• 2000s American game shows
• 2010s American game shows
• 2020s American game shows
• 2015 American television series debuts
• American English-language television shows
• Family Feud
• American Broadcasting Company game shows
• NBC game shows
• Television series by Fremantle (company)
• American television spin-offs
• American television series revived after cancellation
• Celebrity competitions