BOOTLEG FILES 911: “West Virginia Squares” (2014 public television special offering a Mountain State version of “Hollywood Squares”).

LAST SEEN: On YouTube.

AMERICAN HOME VIDEO: None.

REASON FOR BOOTLEG STATUS: Obscure one-shot riff on the classic game show.

CHANCES OF SEEING A COMMERCIAL DVD RELEASE: Nope.

Have you seen the new CBS reboot of “Hollywood Squares,” with Nate Burleson as the host and Drew Barrymore as the center square? If you haven’t, consider yourself lucky – nary a crumb of entertainment value can be located in that tacky, over-caffeinated, significantly unfunny attempt to update the classic game show. But for sheer strangeness, that new version pales in comparison to the 2014 version of “Hollywood Squares” that was made for West Virginia Public Television.
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