Music to our ears! Jamie Foxx and his daughter Corinne are collectively once more for Beat Shazam’s seventh season, premiering Tuesday, Could 28 on Fox. He hosts and he or she deejays on the sport present the place three groups of two compete to determine tune titles quickest, with the profitable duo going up in opposition to the Shazam app for an opportunity at $1 million.
Jamie missed the earlier season as a result of a critical medical situation he skilled whereas taking pictures the Netflix movie Again in Motion in April 2023; Nick Cannon and Kelly Osbourne stepped in to take over for the household duo. “That is one thing particular, his return,” says Jeff Apploff, the sequence’ cocreator and govt producer, in addition to a longtime good friend of Jamie who flew to Atlanta to be with the actor the day the disaster started.
“It’s his first actual large challenge that he’s finished since getting back from the sickness. As quickly as [Jamie] walked on the [Beat Shazam] stage and seemed round, you possibly can see the look in his eyes,” Apploff explains. “He was so completely happy and excited to be again. You couldn’t inform something had ever occurred to him. I used to be within the management room. I began crying.”
Though Jamie acknowledges his well being emergency to the viewers, the present doesn’t dwell on it. “We’re the most important occasion on TV,” says Apploff, who shares that the host is again to his normal entertaining self. Even throughout industrial breaks, he does stand-up, performs the piano, sings and dances with contestants.
And people contestants are one thing particular this go-round, guarantees Apploff. “They’re individuals who had nice causes to win. While you watch anyone who actually wants the cash, it’s a cool journey.” As all the time, there are themed episodes. They embody siblings, emergency employees and-—to honor Corinne’s engagement to boyfriend Joe Hooten—{couples} in several phases of relationships.
But it surely’s the Father’s Day installment, airing June 11, that’s assured to make your coronary heart sing. Because the Foxx father and daughter have a look at household footage, “Jamie retains going, ‘You’re hitting me within the tear field,’” Apploff says. “The expertise that he’s gone by way of has made him respect life much more. He’ll inform you, ‘There aren’t any dangerous days, solely good days.’”
Beat Shazam, Season 7 Premiere, Tuesday, Could 28, 8/7c, Fox