American Idol host, Ryan Seacrest is close to signing a deal to host an NBC game show called Million Second Quiz, reports The Hollywood Reporter:
Ryan Seacrest is nearing a deal to host another broadcast reality show, this time for NBC. The show, Million Second Quiz, is billed as a 24-hour live competition series, for which Seacrest also will serve as an executive producer. In signing on, Seacrest, who also emcees Fox’s American Idol and ABC’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve special, will become the face of major unscripted franchises at three of the four big broadcast networks.
Taking place over 12 days and nights, Quiz will see contestants battling one another as they test the limits of their knowledge, endurance and will to win. Catering to Seacrest’s strengths as a live broadcaster, NBC will broadcast the show in primetime live from an hourglass-shaped structure in the heart of Manhattan — which also will serve as the living quarters for the players — instead of the typical studio setting. And unlike other competition shows, players have to play Million Second Quiz 24 hours a day in order to avoid getting eliminated. As the 1 million seconds run out, champions will then duke it out, and an eventual winner will take home as much as $10 million. The game show will join NBC’s fall schedule, with its premiere set for Sept. 9.
Not surprisingly, a complicating factor is Ryan’s millions of jobs, including his radio show, and Idol auditions which typically tape in the fall. That the production schedule is only 12 days, and Ryan is actually a spawn of an alien species and can be in many places at once, should make the scheduling a little easier.
OK. Just kidding about that second part.
