The Sims Spark'd, the Sims TV show

The Sims Spark'd is a reality TV competition about The Sims 4. TBS aired it from July 17 to August 7, 2020. Twelve Sims creators played the game in teams of three. They built houses, made Sims, and told stories with them. The best team won $100,000.

The full name was "The Sims Spark'd presented by ELEAGUE". EA and Turner Sports announced the show on July 8, 2020, says Inverse. Wikipedia says that EA made the show in-house. Evan Denbaum and Michael Duke created it.

The show had one season of four episodes. The crew filmed it from December 9 to 14, 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic. Each episode aired on TBS on a Friday at 11pm ET/PT. On the next Monday, the episode went up on the BuzzFeed Multiplayer channel on YouTube, for viewers outside the United States.

We make LifeSim, a free life sim. We are not part of EA or the show. We wrote this guide from the sources at the end of the page, and we opened each one on November 8, 2026.

Team Llama won The Sims Spark'd. The team was xMiraMira, SimLicy, and DrGluon. In the last vote, Llama got 5 of 9 votes and Team Cowplant got 4, says Wikipedia. Digital Trends also names these three players as the winners.

Digital Trends called the win a comeback for Team Llama. The sources that we read do not say how the team split the $100,000.

Wikipedia also says that the family of the winning team was "to be featured in The Sims 4". We found no source that shows the release of that family in the game.

Twelve Sims creators from YouTube and Twitch took part. At the start, a random draw put them into four teams of three. Each team had one Stylist, one Builder, and one Storyteller. The teams have the names of four Sims icons: the Llama, the Cowplant, the Gnome, and the Freezer Bunny.

One player changed teams. Steph0Sims left the show during episode 3, says Wikipedia. The producers then asked The English Simmer to come back. The English Simmer was on Team Gnome in episodes 1 and 2, and on Team Cowplant in episodes 3 and 4.

The roles match the three big parts of The Sims 4. The Stylist works in Create a Sim. The Builder works in Build mode. The Storyteller plays the Sims and makes a video of their story. If you want to try the Builder role yourself, start with our guides to build a house and to rotate items.

Rayvon Owen hosted The Sims Spark'd. He was a finalist in season 14 of American Idol. Three judges scored the teams:

• Dave Miotke, a developer at Maxis, the studio that makes The Sims. Players know him as SimGuruNinja.
• Kelsey Impicciche, a YouTuber. She is known for her 100 Baby Challenge videos. Read the rules of that challenge on our 100 Baby Challenge page.
• Tayla Parx, a singer and songwriter. She is also a voice actress in The Sims 4.

The audience did not vote. The judges picked the teams that went out, and a vote of nine people decided the final, says Wikipedia.

Each episode had one or two challenges. The teams had a short time limit for each one. Digital Trends compared the format to cooking and fashion contests like Chopped and Project Runway. These are the challenges, from Wikipedia:

Episode 2 asks for Sims that age through every life stage. To do that in your own game, read how to age up a Sim. For a supernatural story, our Sims 4 Vampires guide is a good start.

You can watch The Sims Spark'd on YouTube. The official EA page for the show says that the episodes are on a playlist of the BuzzFeed Multiplayer channel. That page names only season 1.

In 2020, SimsVIP reported that episode 1 was on BuzzFeed Multiplayer "worldwide" on July 20, 2020. Game Informer gave the same plan: TBS first, then BuzzFeed Multiplayer from July 20.

TBS no longer lists the show on its schedule, as far as we found. We did not find the show on a paid streaming service. If the YouTube playlist goes down, check the EA page first.

No. There is no season 2 of The Sims Spark'd, and EA never announced one. We found no official statement that EA cancelled the show either. It simply stopped after season 1.

In 2020, Digital Trends quoted Lyndsay Pearson, of The Sims team, on more seasons. She said that COVID-19 delayed those plans. After the finale, Digital Trends wrote that nobody had announced a new season. Executive producer Evan Denbaum still sounded hopeful.

EA also ran a Spark'd Challenge Program in The Sims 4. It started on July 17, 2020, the day of the premiere. Inverse says that the top players in these challenges could get a place on a future season. Because no season 2 came, nobody went on the show this way.

The Spark'd challenges were build and Create a Sim contests in The Sims 4. Players made an entry in their own game. Then they shared it in the Gallery with the tag of the challenge.

The EA archive lists four past challenges:

• Destination Wedding
• Golden Age
• Creature Creation
• Holiday Magic

The archive says that you can still download the entries from the Gallery. To find them, read our guide to the Sims 4 Gallery. If you want a new challenge for your own game, our Sims 4 challenge generator and our list of Sims 4 challenges have many ideas.

It is worth watching if you play The Sims 4 and like creative contests. Each episode is short, and the whole season is four episodes. The show uses the real game, so you see real builds and real Create a Sim work.

Inverse wrote that the show stays true to the game, and that fans of strange reality shows will like it. Inverse also wrote that it will not win awards. We found no viewer numbers for the show.

The show is also a record of the Sims community in 2020. Many of the contestants still make Sims videos. If you like the Storyteller part most, a story challenge like the Legacy Challenge gives you a long story in your own game.

Yes, but not in The Sims 4. In The Sims, the story comes from you: you build the house, you dress the Sims, and you write the story in your head or in a video.

In LifeSim, the game we make, the other people make the story with you. You pick a real city on a 3D map of Earth and live one life there. Every person in the city has a job, a home, friends, and a memory of you. You talk to them in your own words, not from a list.

LifeSim does not fit every Spark'd fan. It has no Build mode like The Sims 4, and it has no Create a Sim with hundreds of sliders. If the Builder or the Stylist part is your favorite, stay with The Sims 4. If you like the Storyteller part, and you want the people to answer back, try LifeSim free in the browser. For more games with the same idea, read our list of games like The Sims.

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• Wikipedia: The Sims Spark'd
• EA: The Sims Spark'd
• EA: The Sims Spark'd challenge archive
• Inverse: The Sims TV show Spark'd on TBS (July 2020)
• Game Informer: The Sims launches a reality TV show (July 8, 2020)
• Digital Trends: The Sims Spark'd preview (July 2020)
• Digital Trends: The Sims Spark'd winners (August 2020)
• SimsVIP: The Sims Spark'd episode 1 now available (July 20, 2020)