Here we go! This is taken from a press release issued by CBS.
All episodes will air at 8 PM ET on their specified dates.

Thursday, December 18 (Taped August 3, show #3)
- William Shatner (Star Trek, Boston Legal) & Aisha Tyler (Talk Soup, CSI:)
Sunday, December 21 (Taped August 4, show #6) (Featuring user chad1m)
- Julie Chen (Big Brother, The Early Show) & Phil Keoghan (The Amazing Race)
Sunday, December 28 (Taped August 4 , show #5)
- Betty White (Leave now if you don't know her) & Adam Carolla (The Man Show, morning radio show)
Sunday, January 4 (Taped August 2, show #2)
- Craig Ferguson (Drew Carey Show, Late Late Show host) & Serena Williams (#1 female tennis pro)
Sunday, January 11 (Taped August 2, show #1) (Featuring user Sodboy13)
- Norm MacDonald (SNL, Match Game '08 pilot) & Jamie Kennedy (Jamie Kennedy Experiment)
Sunday, January 18 (season one repeat)
- Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother) & Rachael Ray (The Rachael Ray Show)
Sunday, January 25 (Taped August 3, show #4)
- Chelsea Handler (Chelsea Lately) & Jeff Garlin (Curb Your Enthusiasm)
Sunday, February 1 (season two repeat)
- William Shatner (Star Trek, Boston Legal) & Aisha Tyler (Talk Soup, CSI:)

There HAS to be some logical reason as to why this eppy is the repeater. Because I don't see it.

I suspect part of it is that the former Dr. Howser played very well.
Which, I believe, is why CBS chose to lead with this episode during the program's summer run.

Bloody heck Chad, you got to be teamed up with Phil Koeghan? I look forward to hearing stories after the broadcast!

Ryan :)

/kinda hoping for either 'but' or 'first' as a password on your ep...

I've actually got an essay-type thing prepared based on the whole experience that I hope to post afterward if the mods don't mind a 10,000 paragraph post.

It's not one gigantic sentence, is it? :)

Come on now I don't think anyone actually types like that we'll just have to see I hope you all enjoy my episode win or lose I hope you enjoy what I have to write thanks a lot.

Well then, looks like I'll be seeing ya on the 11th. Thanks for posting this, Chad!

Good luck to you both. I hope you guys won a lot of money.

Ugh! That just brought back old nightmares from the ATGS list.

For maximum effect, he forgot to butter us up with "this is the greatest game show chat room you are all so cool."

It only gets better if we serve hat putatoes to our honorees.

Never mind, that... I just hope you made the Chenbot look good so her hubby will keep MDP on his good side when deciding which shows get renewed and which shows get cancelled. :)

We'll know the show was tampered with when Passwords like "houseguest" "veto" and "eviction" come up.

All I'm going to say is... heh.

Both this and the Feb. 1 date will be going up against the NFC Championship Game and the Super Bowl respectively.

...except that this is the year the AFC Championship game is slated for the late day slot, so it probably doesn't make sense for CBS to program a new episode of anything in the 10:00 hour.

It is theoretically possible (indeed, not a stretch at all) for both the Jets and Giants not only to make it to their respective Conference Championships, but to have obtained home-field advantage for same. In that event, the schedule will change, because they won't make them both play the same day.

Point's well-taken, though. I'm just saying that it's not necessarily set in stone.

It's interesting that the schedule starts it on Dec. 18 instead of the original Dec. 21 starting date because any one of the dates could be problematic in terms of airimg because of the possibility the 8 PM start time will probably be more like 8:15 or 8:20 depending on how long the games last.

Nice to know that Chad & Sodboy13 are on there. Good luck fellas. You'll need it.

The Furguson/Williams match-up should be interesting. Also, Betty White should be interesting a second time. She did pretty good last summer. Now we'll see what happens on 12/28.

No, that doesn't sound pessimistic at all...nope not a bit!

/Yes, I know

Seriously, Good on you for writing that. I did the same thing after my "Weakest Link" experience, so that I could cherish every detail. In hindsight, one of the best things I've ever done.

Hope you remembered 'everything' about the experience.

I agree with Matt - I wrote up stories about my "Wheel" and "Inside the Box" experiences and I too am happy I did that - especially so when I was asked to talk to a local Rotary Club about my time on the shows - it made for an easier time writing the speech, that's for sure.

Perhaps we could start a thread with contestant experiences?

R.

Win or lose, it should make for very interesting reading. I've never wanted to be a contestant-I'd rather be the host, but I enjoy reading about the process. Hey, if you don't win on the show, maybe you can sell the book rights and make money that way!

And for anyone curious, I added the tape dates and order for the new episodes.

You got a point, but I have to figure that if that doesn't happen (and with the way the Jets have been inconsistent this year, it might well not) then CBS would get the late game because of the way they've been playing it off the last six or so years or however long it's been since they decided to move the conference championships to mid-afternoon and primetime.

Lot of things to shake out, though.

Right. We'll really just have to wait and see. But the earlier games don't look to be affected too much. There's only one game on the 21st in the early afternoon, compared to the double header on FOX.

I think we aren't on the same page here, Chad.

The situation we were talking about involves the NPH-Rachael Ray repeat that's scheduled for conference championship Sunday.

As I type I looked a little further...there is no 4 PM game scheduled for Fox that Sunday, unless something changed that I wasn't aware of. (All three 4 PM games are slated for CBS that day.) So you probably will have to wait a little bit to watch your episode.

It's just me not understanding the intricacies of broadcast football. D'oh.

It's too bad Heidi Bohay isn't one of the celebs. We know they'd break away from the football game to show Heidi.

Here's a promo for the show, taken less than an hour ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxJF6B2H2vA

Well done Mr. Temple :) Point for you. Would you like to go for the follow up question?

R.

Hi-yo!

You can pick up your gold stars at any open window.

Thank you. Your approval has made my day.

I don't think this would count as a spoiler-type question. . .

So we can now turn our attention to looking out for you, are you a part of the first game of the 1/11/09 ep or the second?

Oh dear. The spotlight. It burns!

(Seriously, it's really hot. Er, you'll see.)

Anyway, I'm part of the first game on 1/11.

/the sportcoat didn't help
//it wasn't even mine

And in case anyone was wondering what I meant by this, "Veto" was indeed a word used on that episode. It came up in the money round Julie played in.

And I almost wondered whether the team would get that. ISTR the male contestant getting flustered with that one.