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| Ryan Seacrest |
According to THR, 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.
According to sources, the complicating factor has been
Seacrest's many jobs, to say nothing of his packed schedule. In addition to his
daily Clear Channel radio show, which he tapes out of Los Angeles , he typically travels for Idol
auditions in the fall.
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