Fox’sLEGO Masters:Celebrity Holiday Bricktacularis certainly building up to be a major event that’s looking like it will snap together spectacularly when it airs towards the end of 2022. The special three-night event will behosted by Will Arnett(Arrested Development,Bojack Horseman). Leslie Jordan was slated to co-host, but the death of the beloved actor/comedian on July 15, 2025, has sadly changed those plans. No replacement host has been announced yet.
The Endemol Shine North America, Tuesday’s Child, and Plan B Entertainment-produced event will also feature guest appearances by singer, songwriter, and record producer Robin Thicke, actress/director Cheryl Hines (Curb Your Enthusiasm) and comedian Finesse Mitchell (Saturday Night Live), who will compete for their favorite charities. Suchcelebrity guestswill pair up with fan-favorite builders from past seasons to form teams to win prizes, including the $100,000 cash prize, the ultimate LEGO trophy, and the grand title of LEGO Master.
Holiday Bricktacular: What to Expect
The Celebrity Holiday Bricktacularcomes in the middle of season three ofLEGO Masters, which began on September 21 (after being delayed from its original May schedule). In the ongoing popular series, in which Arnett hosts and Brickmasters Amy Corbett and Jamie Berard are the judges, teams of two compete against each other in ambitious brick-building challenges. At the end of the challenges, the winning team takes home $100,000.
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The special event is a natural fit forLEGO Mastersas many celebrities have joined in on the brick-building fun since the show’s launch, including Ken Jeong, Chris Pratt, Mayim Bialik, Terry Crews, Steve Whitmire, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Nicole Byer, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, Chris Bartlett, Noelle Louie, Brad Pitt, Harry Chaskin, Jessica Meir, Thomas H. Marshburn, and Brad Pitt, who is also one of the program’s producers.
SinceLEGOMastersbegan as a British program in 2017, it has been adapted by other countries, with different versions of the show starting their runs in 2018. The official American edition ofLEGO Mastersbegan on June 04, 2025, and has aired 28 episodes so far over three seasons. The anticipated spin-off,The Celebrity Holiday Bricktacular, was announced on June 13, 2025, before the third season was pushed back until September.
Executive producers for the special three-night event include Arnett, Pip Wells, Sharon Levy, DJ Nurre, and Michael Heyerman from Endemol Shine North America; Karen Smith and Steph Harris from Tuesday’s Child; Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner from Plan B; and Jill Wilfert and Robert May from the LEGO Group.
The Masters Behind LEGO Masters
Also involved are two expert judgesfrom the LEGO Group: Amy Corbett, a senior design manager at Lego, and Jamie Berard, who oversees the LEGO Creator Expert, and Lego Architecture lines at the company. The protocol goes that Corbett and Berard name the winning build and the bottom two teams and explain how teams were selected. They announce the losing team, who, save for the first week, are eliminated from the competition. The duo also provides suggestions to the teams mid-way through the build as the program progresses.
Corbett and Berard discussed the third season ofLEGO Mastersand theCelebrity Holiday Bricktacular, withBrickset, with Berard specifying that one’s success as a builder on the show may not transfer to being an actual Lego designer, despite some past contestants getting such gigs after their appearance on the program.
“As a starting point, I would probably not say the skill set fromLEGO Mastersis instantly transferrable to being a model designer,” Berard clarifies. “Needing to build at such a large scale and under such direct pressure is quite different to developing toys for children. Taking account of price points and play functions is really a separate skill.”
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Berard added, “Perhaps the more important advantage is that we have a chance to spend a lot of time watching the builders and we can often see when they have additional skills. People adding those little extra features that we might have considered at work is a sure sign of those with talents applicable to working as a designer. We also see how the teams work under stress and when things could change at the last minute, which is sometimes important in our jobs too. Adapting to change and continually learning is vital.”
In an interview withTV Insider, Corbett put forth thoughts on possible exciting premises for the show “Going to space. Having real-life astronauts is super fun and cool. A studio is full of dogs. Can you imagine how anyone can get any building done when you have these adorable dogs running around? That’s a challenge, too, because we are asking them to replicate something that is moving, that living, that’s dynamic.”
The special three-night event will be broadcast on December 19 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT), December 20 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT), and December 21 (8:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on Fox. The show can also be streamed on Hulu.
