First Look at CBS’ Buddy Games with Josh Duhamel

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Here’s your first look at the CBS game show Buddy Games Season 1, created and hosted by Josh Duhamel.  Stream Buddy Games September 14, 2023 on CBS!

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00:00 [CHEERING]

00:01 You have no idea how excited I am to see these pretty faces.

00:05 We are at Camp Buddy Games.

00:07 This feels like an adult summer camp.

00:09 Go on the sound of my bugle, all right?

00:11 Good luck.

00:12 [BUGLE PLAYING]

00:13 Buddy Games came about 20 years ago

00:16 with a group of my friends who wanted an excuse

00:18 to get back together.

00:19 And we always dreamt about having a show based on that,

00:22 because we knew other people around the country

00:24 did versions of this.

00:25 We wanted to sort of share what we do

00:27 and allow people to let that kid out.

00:30 How often in life do you get a chance to go play,

00:32 be with your friends, and compete

00:34 against a bunch of other friends?

00:35 And that's exactly what this place is for.

00:36 I can't ask them to do anything that I wouldn't do myself,

00:39 right?

00:40 We're used to competing sometimes against each other.

00:42 But now we're competing all together

00:44 to go crush other people.

00:46 We have six teams of four.

00:47 Every episode, there will be one big game.

00:49 And the team that loses has to send

00:51 one of their contestants home.

00:52 You're going to be facing off in losers' last stand.

00:55 What we looked for was people that have certain qualities

00:58 in these friendships.

00:59 And they had to be deep-rooted, old friendships, that thing

01:02 that makes them real friends.

01:03 I stuck with me through my worst times.

01:06 And I still do.

01:07 Coming into the Buddy Games, we don't have a plan.

01:10 There is no set leader.

01:11 That's what the cool thing is about this group,

01:12 is we all bring our own skill set.

01:13 It is very competitive.

01:14 Some of the competitions that we have are crazy.

01:17 Yeah, buddy!

01:18 It's also an opportunity for a lot of these people

01:20 to rekindle old friendships and sort of relive their youth.

01:22 We're all pretty much the entire group of around 30 years.

01:25 I think we're trying to hang on to our glory days.

01:27 Possibly end in a row, hopefully not.

01:28 Lance and Rob, but we're still going.

01:30 We're still ready.

01:30 We're amped up for this.

01:31 Let's go!

01:32 The big cash prize at the end of this thing is $200,000.

01:35 So they are definitely incentivized to do well.

01:37 These are all like my brothers.

01:39 And we are forever friends.

01:40 We are going to help us win some money.

01:42 Let's go!

01:44 Let's go get 'em!

01:45 We met through Derby.

01:46 And we've been friends ever since.

01:47 We are rougher on the edges.

01:48 Yeah.

01:49 Anyone who underestimates us is automatically

01:51 making a huge mistake.

01:52 So I think that we'll be more prepared than anybody else,

01:55 which is going to help us win this whole thing.

01:56 People are going to watch this.

01:58 And they're going to be reminded of their friends.

02:00 This is real.

02:01 And it's playing out right in front of you.

02:03 And it's hilarious.

02:04 [MUSIC PLAYING]

02:08 (upbeat music)

02:10 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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