FanDuel TV is set for its second season of NBA show Run It Back. Last year, that was a three-times-weekly show hosted by Michelle Beadle alongside Chandler Parsons, Shams Charania, and Eddie Gonzalez. For the second season, the show is moving to four times a week, Gonzalez is out, and Lou Williams (who played for six NBA teams between 2005-2022) is in. They introduced Williams on their first episode of this season Monday:
WE. ARE. BACK.
Introducing our newest member of the #RunItBack family: @TeamLou23 👏@ShamsCharania | @ChandlerParsons | @MichelleDBeadle | @FanDuelTV
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— Run It Back (@RunItBackFDTV) October 23, 2023
Here’s more on that from a release:
FanDuel TV’s daily news-breaking NBA show “Run It Back” returned today with new co-host and 3-time NBA Sixth Man of the Year award winner Lou Williams. Williams joins the “Run It Back” team that includes Emmy-winning host Michelle Beadle, NBA Insider Shams Charania and former NBA star Chandler Parsons.
“Couldn’t be more excited to start the next chapter of my career off the court and in the studio with such pros like Michelle, Shams and Chandler,” Williams said. “FanDuel TV offered an incredible opportunity to showcase my deep knowledge of the NBA and I jumped on it. Can’t wait to help make ‘Run It Back’ the biggest and greatest this season.”
This season “Run It Back” returns with more live episodes every week. Beginning today and through February 8, “Run It Back” will broadcast 4 days a week, airing live every Monday through Thursday morning at 10:00 AM, ET. Starting the week of February 12 and continuing to the end of the NBA Finals, “Run It Back” will move to 5 days a week with the addition of a Friday episode.
“Investing in more episodes of ‘Run It Back’ this season was purposeful. The show saw tremendous growth in its first season and we felt it deserved an expanded weekly lineup in order to reach its potential,” Executive Producer and SVP of FanDuel TV Kevin Grigsby said. “We also are bringing the co-hosts to Los Angeles so they can anchor a majority of the shows from FanDuel TV’s new state of the art studio. There is an undeniable team chemistry our audience saw when Michelle, Shams and Chandler were together on set that is hard to replicate remotely.”
This is an interesting move on a few levels. For one, there’s the upping of the number of episodes per week, to four for now and five starting Feb. 12. For another, there’s bringing the co-hosts to Los Angeles to make this more of an in-studio show. And this will also now “feature interviews with some of the biggest stars from around the game, including regular appearances from NBA legend Vince Carter,” notable considering how Beadle told AA earlier this year about how she wanted to add that:
“For me, it’s watching us all grow, getting better at it,” she said. “It’s just to keep it going, get bigger, better, have guests. Any show getting bigger, I’m a big supporter of that. And I hope we get a shot at doing the same.”
We’ll see how the new and expanded Run It Back goes for FanDuel TV.
Run It Back airs Mondays to Thursdays at 10 a.m. ET on FanDuel TV and the FanDuel TV+ streaming app. More on how to watch it is here.
