By Rosy Cordero
Affiliate Editor, TV
Jay Pharoah (SNL, The Blackening) has been set because the host of Fox‘s new sport The Quiz with Balls. The collection is ready to premiere this summer season.
As Deadline solely revealed earlier this month, the quiz show pits brains against balls combining a high-stakes quiz present with a large-scale bodily competitors. Every episode options two households competing for $100k in a “battle of the balls.”
The venture hails from Huge Brother and The Voice creator John de Mol’s Talpa Studios and Fremantle’s Eureka Productions, marking de Mol and Eureka’s newest venture with Fox. They’re additionally behind The Flooring, the Rob Lowe-hosted sport present that launched in early January.
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The community teases contestants should work collectively whereas standing on a excessive platform over a pool as they face a multiple-choice quiz the place every reply is allotted to a spot with a large ball positioned up behind it. If the proper reply is chosen, the ball rolls down and stops simply earlier than colliding with the participant. But when the reply is mistaken, the ball will quickly descend and mercilessly whack them into the pool under.
The extra gamers every workforce loses, the tougher the questions get. The longer they final, the extra money they financial institution, till one “dry” member of the family performs the ultimate spherical that might result in the $100k grand prize.
“Playful, quick-witted and high-energy, Jay’s going to make an enormous splash as our host of The Quiz with Balls,” stated Allison Wallach, Fox Leisure’s President of Unscripted Programming. “Irrespective of the stage or present, Jay’s singular model of humor and comedic timing elevates every little thing he does. With him on the helm of The Quiz with Balls, viewers of all ages are assured an thrilling and hilarious hour of enjoyable taking part in together with Jay and our household contestants.”
“Once I obtained hit up about internet hosting an epic face-off between massive brains and even larger balls, I used to be like…’I obtained this,’” Jay shared in a press release. “Then I discovered it was a sport present collection on Fox and thought…even higher!”
Final Summer time, The Quiz with Balls premiered on SBS6 in The Netherlands, the place it averaged a 21.1% market share within the 20-49 demo, above slot common, resulting in an order for a four-episode winter particular. A second season of the present will air later this 12 months. Along with the U.S. format, Talpa Studios will quickly announce different markets the place this profitable format will journey.
The collection is produced by Eureka Productions and Talpa Studios. John de Mol, Maarten Meijs, Chris Culvenor, Paul Franklin, Wes Dening and John Leahy function govt producers. Anthony Carbone serves as showrunner and govt producer.
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