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ABC is revealing its lineup for Celebrity Jeopardy! All Stars
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Crowned champions Ike Barinholtz, Lisa Ann Walter and W. Kamau Bell will have the opportunity to defend their title against 18 other celebrities
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The new season will premiere on Friday, March 13, on ABC
A new season of Celebrity Jeopardy! is upon us. And this time, three champions have a lot to prove.
PEOPLE can exclusively announce the Celebrity Jeopardy! All Stars lineup ahead of the tournament’s premiere on Friday, March 13. In the competition show’s forthcoming season, three reigning champions (all of whom won their respective seasons) will have the opportunity to defend their titles against some of the most competitive stars out there.
Previous winners Ike Barinholtz, Lisa Ann Walter and W. Kamau Bell will compete alongside 18 other celebrities for the All Stars crown.
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Mark Duplass, Rachel Dratch, Andy Richter, Macaulay Culkin, Cynthia Nixon, Margaret Cho and Ray Romano will also be featured in the All Stars season, along with podcaster Katie Nolan, NFL analyst Mina Kimes, Steven Weber, Gilmore Girls actor Sean Gunn, comedian Roy Wood Jr., Patton Oswalt, Robin Thede, Mo Rocca and Mira Sorvino.
Nobody Wants This stars Jackie Tohn and Tim Simons will also participate in the game show.
The three champions will be seeded directly into the tournament semifinals, per ABC. Celebrity Jeopardy! All Stars will air across 10 episodes and will have six quarterfinals, three semifinals and one finale.
In a teaser for the episode, host Ken Jennings teased that the show’s “brightest stars are all back.”
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Barinholtz, who won the first season of Celebrity Jeopardy!, returned to the game show for its Tournament of Champions. When host Ken Jennings asked him about being the first celebrity champion to appear in the tournament, the comedian, 49, responded, “I feel like a guinea pig a little bit, but I like guinea pigs, they’re adorable, like me. But yeah, it’s an honor to be here.”
Walter was crowned the winner of the show’s second season, competing against Nolan and Rocca in the finale. All three finalists will now have a chance to go head-to-head once again. During her turn on Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions, Walter said she would take her season 2 win to the grave.
“I’m going to be buried in [my Jeopardy! trophy], it’s my urn,” she told Jennings, per E! News. “I fought for it, I won it and it’s going to go to good use. And I’m not kidding, it is now in my will.”
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After his season 3 win, Bell noted it felt “awesome to win” when he announced his victory on the show’s website. “During the first episode, my goal was not to embarrass myself,” the comedian said. “However, as my wife is well aware, I do know a lot of random things. In any conversation that gets stuck over an unknown fact or figure, I’m the first to pull out my phone and look it up.”
The All Stars season will premiere on Friday, March 13, on ABC and can be streamed the next day on Hulu.
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