Penn & Teller: Fool Us Season 9: Release Date, Plot, and more!

Created by Penn Jillette, Teller, Peter Adam Golden, and Andrew Golder, Penn & Teller: Fool Us is a magic competition television show that first premiered on ITV and then on The CW from Season 2. Golder and Adam Golden are also the executive producers alongside Peter Davey and Lincoln Hiatt.

The first season premiered on January 7, 2011, followed by seven more seasons until October 2021. The show has received generally positive reviews from critics, considering that the makers have renewed the show for a ninth season.

So, when is the ninth season releasing? What is the format? Who would be returning as the hosts? Continue reading to know further details.

Penn & Teller: Fool Us Format and Cast

Each episode starts off with an introduction stating the purpose of the series. Penn & Teller come out and take their seats towards center stage, and hopeful magicians perform their acts in front of them with a live studio audience. After each performance, Penn & Teller privately confer while the host interviews the magicians.

Penn & Teller then reveal if they know how the trick was performed, typically using cryptic language or writing down the method and presenting it privately to the magicians to confirm, to avoid publicly exposing the secrets behind the trick. Teller notes that doublespeak helps teach people new techniques without spoiling the trick. If Penn & Teller are wrong, or cannot come up with how

A backstage judge, versed in the magic industry’s techniques and privately informed how the trick is done before the show, makes any necessary calls about whether Penn & Teller were properly fooled. At the end of each episode, Penn & Teller perform a magic act of their own. Jonathan Ross and Alyson Hannigan would be returning as the hosts of the ninth season.

Penn & Teller: Fool Us Season 9 Release Date