Wheel of Fortune returns to primetime this week thanks to a new celebrity edition to the beloved game show. Celebrities will compete for their favorite charities in the new specials, which begin airing on Thursday at 8 p.m. ET on ABC. In a recent interview, co-host Vanna White previewed the specials and gave two important words of advice for celebrities, 'Buy vowels.'

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'It's exciting, it's fun and the celebrities are winning tons of money for their favorite charities,' White said of the new show. White said there will be no difference as far as how the game is played. 'We play the game the same way,' she told TV Insider in December. However, there are no prizes on the wheel, so celebrity contestants can only win cash. In other words, if they are hoping to win an all-inclusive stay at a tropical resort, they will have to look elsewhere. Instead, there will be four $1 million wedges on the wheel, so the 'stakes are higher.'

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Later on in the interview, White offered her advice for celebrities, reminding them that they should buy vowels. 'It's only $250!' White said. She agreed that it was a good investment for celebrities looking to win millions for their charities.

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The Celebrity Wheel of Fortune specials are part of ABC's new primetime line-up featuring gameshows, with Sara Haines also hosting The Chase and Craig Ferguson helming The Hustler. Co-host Pat Sajak told Zap2It that the success of last year's Jeopardy! Greatest of All Time tournament likely inspired ABC to bring Wheel to primetime. Since the regular syndicated Wheel of Fortune is also airing simultaneously as the celebrity one, Sajak believes a primetime Wheel would only be good for a limited time.

“It’s a tricky business,” Sajak explained. “The one thing you don’t want to start doing is to overexpose the show. In some markets, you’ll have a half-hour of (the syndicated) Wheel of Fortune followed by an hour of (the ABC) Wheel of Fortune, and I don’t think you can do that too often without watering it down. But for a limited run like this, I think it’s fine.”

Celebrity Wheel of Fortune is debuting while the syndicated version is in its 38th season. ABC picked up the new show in November. 'It is a happy place,' White told PopCulture recently about the Wheel atmosphere. 'Anybody that tunes in, you can tune out anything that has been going on in your life for that week or that month and have 30 minutes of family fun. You see people win, you see people happy, you solve the puzzles [at home], and you’re a part of the show. It’s just a great half-hour of escape and family time.”

Shuffle options for media have been around for a long time, and Netflix has confirmed that it will be the latest to adopt the functionality. Called “Shuffle Play,” Netflix customers will be able to roll the dice on something to watch starting sometime in the first half of 2021.

Reported by Variety, Netflix has been testing its Shuffle Play feature since last summer (and even earlier with Android). However it wasn’t clear if it would end up arriving for everyone. Buried in Netflix’s Q4 earnings report, COO and chief product officer Greg Peters confirmed that its shuffle option will launch for all in 1H 2021.

As for why, Peters said the company noticed its users sometimes turn on the service “and they’re not really sure what they want to watch.” And it sounds like the people that have tested the feature have liked it. He elaborated on Netflix’s Q4 call:

“It’s really working for us where our members can basically indicate to us that they just want to skip browsing entirely, click one button and we’ll pick a title for them just to instantly play,” Peters said on the company’s Q4 investor interview Tuesday. “And that’s a great mechanism that’s worked quite well for members in that situation.”

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Notably, the feature won’t serve you up totally random content, here’s how it will work:

Titles served up by Netflix when you hit the “Play Something”/”Shuffle Play” button will be either shows or movies similar to ones you’ve watched previously; titles in genres you’ve viewed; or content you have saved in the “My List” section. For example, when I recently clicked “Play Something,” Netflix started streaming “The Crown” Season 1 (explaining that it was a drama similar to “The Queen’s Gambit,” which I binge-watched last month).

In testing so far, the Shuffle Play button appears on the profile screen that you see when the app loads as well as in the sidebar. If what pops up from Shuffle Play doesn’t sound good, there’s another button that appears to let you “Play Something Else.”

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Here’s a look at the UI for Shuffle Play that was seen in testing this summer:

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