{"id":1315291,"date":"2019-10-04T12:26:09","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T18:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1812733"},"modified":"2019-10-04T12:26:09","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T18:26:09","slug":"nashville-squares-ready-to-turn-country-icons-into-comedy-kings-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/nashville-squares-ready-to-turn-country-icons-into-comedy-kings-queens\/","title":{"rendered":"Nashville Squares Ready to Turn Country Icons Into Comedy Kings + Queens"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:682767?width=1200&amp;height=675&amp;.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"byline\">by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/donnelma\/\" title=\"Posts by Matthew Scott Donnelly\" rel=\"author\">Matthew Scott Donnelly<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\">48m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Where the history of country music is concerned, \u201csquare\u201d is no longer just a prefix for a famous dance routine \u2014&nbsp;soon, it\u2019ll describe a CMT event that\u2019s likely to leave you in a laughing fit.<\/p>\n<p>The network has officially announced the premiere of <em>Nashville Squares<\/em>, a riff on the classic <em>Hollywood Squares<\/em> and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vh1.com\/shows\/hip-hop-squares\">VH1\u2019s Hip Hop Squares<\/a><\/em> game shows that\u2019ll find country icons like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/tanya-tucker\">Tanya Tucker<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1766362\/marie-osmond-is-still-a-little-bit-country\/\">Marie Osmond<\/a> trying their luck as comedy kings and queens as they try to help contestants answer trivia questions. Debuting in November, <em>Nashville Squares<\/em> will follow its predecessors\u2019 traditional tic-tac-toe format, but will take the concept one step further by featuring \u201cexciting musical moments, fun and unpredictable competition, dance choreography from the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/shows\/dallas-cowboys-cheerleaders-making-the-team\">Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: All Stars<\/a><\/em>, and much more,\u201d according to a press release.<\/p>\n<p>So, who else can you expect to find on the leather-studded, life-sized game board, besides sure-to-be hilarious host Bob Saget? Glad you asked: Bill Engvall, Caroline Rhea, Carson Cressley, Chris Sullivan, Deana Carter, Devin Dawson, Fortune Feimster, Gary Busey, Jana Kramer &amp; Mike Caussin, Jimmie Allen, Kenya Moore, Kyle Busch (hey, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/shows\/racing-wives\">Racing Wives<\/a><\/em>!), Mark Ballas &amp; BC Jean, Melissa Peterman, Mickey Guyton, Mitchell Tenpenny, Sara Evans and Ty Pennington are all ready to bring the funny.<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to check out the special two-part premiere on Nov. 1 at 8\/7 on CMT, and keep reading for additional celeb guests you can look forward to spotting this season:<\/p>\n<p>Adam Richman<br \/>Brad Rempel<br \/>Catherine Bach<br \/>Cheslie Kryst<br \/>Curtis Rempel<br \/>Dusty Slay<br \/>Hayley Orrantia<br \/>High Valley<br \/>Jon Reep<br \/>Josef Newgarden<br \/>Keifer Thompson<br \/>Leah Turner<br \/>Lindsay Czarniak<br \/>Loni Love<br \/>Mickie James<br \/>Presley Tucker<br \/>Sara Tiana<br \/>Shawna Thompson<br \/>Tom Wopat<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1812733\/nashville-squares-premiere-announcement-tanya-tucker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Matthew Scott Donnelly 48m ago Where the history of country music is concerned, \u201csquare\u201d is no longer just a prefix for a famous dance routine \u2014&nbsp;soon, it\u2019ll describe a CMT event that\u2019s likely to leave you in a laughing fit. The network has officially announced the premiere of Nashville Squares, a riff on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1315291","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 00:40:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1315291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1315291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1315291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1315291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}