Game Show Network’s popular trivia-based game show Common Knowledge has been picked up by Fox Television Stations for a four-week test run next month. Beginning on August 3, Common Knowledge, distributed by Sony Pictures TV, will air on Fox stations in eight markets including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Phoenix, Tampa, Minneapolis, Orlando and Austin.
“This is the first time we have done a summer test, and we look forward seeing Joey Fatone host Common Knowledge on the Fox Television stations this August,” said John Weiser, president, First Run Television, Spt.
Common Knowledge, which premiered on Game Show Network on January 14, 2019, is a game show that asks those practical, everyday questions that, in theory, everyone should know. Hosted by Fatone, Common Knowledge features two teams of three players consisting of friends, family and/or colleagues who compete to answer multiple-choice questions in three rounds of play. The winning team goes...
“This is the first time we have done a summer test, and we look forward seeing Joey Fatone host Common Knowledge on the Fox Television stations this August,” said John Weiser, president, First Run Television, Spt.
Common Knowledge, which premiered on Game Show Network on January 14, 2019, is a game show that asks those practical, everyday questions that, in theory, everyone should know. Hosted by Fatone, Common Knowledge features two teams of three players consisting of friends, family and/or colleagues who compete to answer multiple-choice questions in three rounds of play. The winning team goes...
- 7/27/2020
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Forget all that “Winter is coming” stuff — CNBC is ready for summer. TheWrap can exclusively reveal the cable channel’s Summer 2019 slate, and we’ve also got your first look at JoJo Fletcher’s and Jordan Rodgers’ house-flipping series “Cash Pad,” among other shows.
This summer season, CNBC will air its biggest primetime slate yet, with more than 50 new hours of premieres. Included among them are three new original series: the aforementioned “Cash Pad,” as well as “Listing Impossible” and “Five Day Biz Fix” (working title). Returning are new installments of CNBC’s popular franchise series, “Deal or No Deal” with Howie Mandel, “The Profit: An Inside Look” with Marcus Lemonis, Season 3 of “Jay Leno’s Garage,” Season 13 of “American Greed” and Season 2 of “The Deed: Chicago.”
Watch a preview of the goings-on — including the “Bachelorette” alums’ show — via the video above.
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This summer season, CNBC will air its biggest primetime slate yet, with more than 50 new hours of premieres. Included among them are three new original series: the aforementioned “Cash Pad,” as well as “Listing Impossible” and “Five Day Biz Fix” (working title). Returning are new installments of CNBC’s popular franchise series, “Deal or No Deal” with Howie Mandel, “The Profit: An Inside Look” with Marcus Lemonis, Season 3 of “Jay Leno’s Garage,” Season 13 of “American Greed” and Season 2 of “The Deed: Chicago.”
Watch a preview of the goings-on — including the “Bachelorette” alums’ show — via the video above.
Also Read: 'The Deed' Host Sidney Torres Reveals...
- 4/16/2019
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
Look out, Hgtv: CNBC is programming “Real Estate Thursdays” into its primetime lineup. The cable channel has ordered three new real estate series — including one from “Bachelorette” couple JoJo Fletcher and Jordan Rodgers — and renewed “The Deed: Chicago” for Season 2.
Also greenlit to series are the multimillion-dollar estate-sale show “Listing Impossible” and the fairly self-explanatory “Five Day Business Flip.” Finally, CNBC has placed “Simonsen Says,” which follows top real estate broker Lisa Simonsen, into development, the net announced Tuesday at the Television Critics Association press tour.
“Whether it’s investing or building or selling, real estate remains one of the best and fastest ways to build wealth,” said Jim Ackerman, executive vice president of CNBC’s primetime alternative programming. “These new shows and our returning series, ‘The Deed: Chicago,’ are a perfect fit for our primetime slate.”
Also Read: Ratings: 'America's Got Talent - The Champions' Sets New...
Also greenlit to series are the multimillion-dollar estate-sale show “Listing Impossible” and the fairly self-explanatory “Five Day Business Flip.” Finally, CNBC has placed “Simonsen Says,” which follows top real estate broker Lisa Simonsen, into development, the net announced Tuesday at the Television Critics Association press tour.
“Whether it’s investing or building or selling, real estate remains one of the best and fastest ways to build wealth,” said Jim Ackerman, executive vice president of CNBC’s primetime alternative programming. “These new shows and our returning series, ‘The Deed: Chicago,’ are a perfect fit for our primetime slate.”
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- 1/29/2019
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
CNBC is focusing on real estate as a programming growth area, with three new original series on that theme joining the primetime lineup in May.
The business network made the announcement during NBCUniversal’s day of cable network presentations at TCA winter press tour.
Listing Impossible follows superstar real estate agent Aaron Kirman and his team as they work to sell multi-million dollar estates that have languished on the market. Cash Pad (working title) is a home renovation series in which Bachelorette couple-turned-home flippers JoJo Fletcher and Jordan Rodgers transform ordinary homes and apartments into lucrative short-term rental properties. Five Day Business Flip (working title) features a husband-and-wife design duo who remodel small businesses by creating additional money-making operations for them and do it all in five days.
“Whether it’s investing or building or selling, real estate remains one of the best and fastest ways to build wealth,” said Jim Ackerman Evp,...
The business network made the announcement during NBCUniversal’s day of cable network presentations at TCA winter press tour.
Listing Impossible follows superstar real estate agent Aaron Kirman and his team as they work to sell multi-million dollar estates that have languished on the market. Cash Pad (working title) is a home renovation series in which Bachelorette couple-turned-home flippers JoJo Fletcher and Jordan Rodgers transform ordinary homes and apartments into lucrative short-term rental properties. Five Day Business Flip (working title) features a husband-and-wife design duo who remodel small businesses by creating additional money-making operations for them and do it all in five days.
“Whether it’s investing or building or selling, real estate remains one of the best and fastest ways to build wealth,” said Jim Ackerman Evp,...
- 1/29/2019
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Game Show Network has synched up with Joey Fatone to host Common Knowledge, its new daily half-hour series that premieres January 14.
The game show asks practical, everyday questions that everyone should know, such as what should you do when you have a fever? Or how can you tell if a watermelon is ripe? Two teams of three friends/co-workers/relatives compete to answer multiple-choice questions in three rounds of play with the winning team going on to the bonus round to play for $10,000.
*Nsync alum and reality TV veteran Fatone hosted the complete-the-lyric game show The Singing Bee and unscripted show Parents Just Don’t Understand. His long list of TV credits also includes announcing for Family Feud from 2010-15, appearing on Rachael and Guy: Celebrity Cook-Off and a second-place finish on Season 4 of Dancing with the Stars in 2007. He also appeared in the two My Big Fat Greek...
The game show asks practical, everyday questions that everyone should know, such as what should you do when you have a fever? Or how can you tell if a watermelon is ripe? Two teams of three friends/co-workers/relatives compete to answer multiple-choice questions in three rounds of play with the winning team going on to the bonus round to play for $10,000.
*Nsync alum and reality TV veteran Fatone hosted the complete-the-lyric game show The Singing Bee and unscripted show Parents Just Don’t Understand. His long list of TV credits also includes announcing for Family Feud from 2010-15, appearing on Rachael and Guy: Celebrity Cook-Off and a second-place finish on Season 4 of Dancing with the Stars in 2007. He also appeared in the two My Big Fat Greek...
- 10/29/2018
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
The new fall season is closer than you think, and NBC has released their full schedule. Apart from reality favorites The Biggest Loser and The Voice, they are mixing things up quite a bit.
Take a look at a complete preview of the shows coming your way, and mark your calendars. It looks good for NBC this year, and while I’m not sure all of these look like winners, I think you’ll find at least a couple that you’re really going to like.
Blacklist – Fall
The Blacklist — (Photo by: NBC)
For decades, ex-government agent Raymond “Red” Reddington (James Spader) has been one of the FBI’s most wanted fugitives. Brokering shadowy deals for criminals across the globe, Red was known by many as “The Concierge of Crime.”
Now, he’s mysteriously surrendered to the FBI with an explosive offer: he will help catch a long-thought-dead terrorist, Ranko Zamani,...
Take a look at a complete preview of the shows coming your way, and mark your calendars. It looks good for NBC this year, and while I’m not sure all of these look like winners, I think you’ll find at least a couple that you’re really going to like.
Blacklist – Fall
The Blacklist — (Photo by: NBC)
For decades, ex-government agent Raymond “Red” Reddington (James Spader) has been one of the FBI’s most wanted fugitives. Brokering shadowy deals for criminals across the globe, Red was known by many as “The Concierge of Crime.”
Now, he’s mysteriously surrendered to the FBI with an explosive offer: he will help catch a long-thought-dead terrorist, Ranko Zamani,...
- 5/13/2013
- by Marc Eastman
- AreYouScreening.com
The peacock network has picked up Food Fighters, a new cooking game show. Adam Richman will host the series.
Here's the press release, which offers some additional details:
In The Ultimate Food Battle NBC Whips Up High-stakes Culinary Game Show "Food Fighters," Pitting Top Amateur Cooks Against Six Professional Chefs
Adam Richman Hosts Epic Kitchen Clash Testing the Courage, Strategy and Culinary Expertise of America's Best Home Cooks
NBC Series Created by Tim Puntillo in collaboration with Electus
Universal City, Calif. - March 12, 2013 -- It's the perfect recipe for the ultimate food battle when the best amateur cooks in America put their signature dishes to the test against six professional chefs in "Food Fighters," a high-stakes culinary game coming to NBC. Television personality, author and food enthusiast Adam Richman hosts the series that takes...
Here's the press release, which offers some additional details:
In The Ultimate Food Battle NBC Whips Up High-stakes Culinary Game Show "Food Fighters," Pitting Top Amateur Cooks Against Six Professional Chefs
Adam Richman Hosts Epic Kitchen Clash Testing the Courage, Strategy and Culinary Expertise of America's Best Home Cooks
NBC Series Created by Tim Puntillo in collaboration with Electus
Universal City, Calif. - March 12, 2013 -- It's the perfect recipe for the ultimate food battle when the best amateur cooks in America put their signature dishes to the test against six professional chefs in "Food Fighters," a high-stakes culinary game coming to NBC. Television personality, author and food enthusiast Adam Richman hosts the series that takes...
- 3/14/2013
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Comedian Ben Bailey, host of Discovery Channel's Cash Cab, has been tapped as host of NBC's upcoming game series Who’s Still Standing? Based on the Israeli series Still Standing, it offers a contestant the chance to win a cash prize of up to $1,000,000 by taking down each of their opponents in fast-paced trivia battles. Craig Plestis and Tim Puntillo are executive producing for Ums.
- 6/3/2011
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Check out five new clips from the "Minute to Win It" episode with Kevin Jonas which airs on May 12th on NBC. The Guy Fieri-hosted show is executive-produced by Craig Plestis, Tim Puntillo, Mattias Olsson and Jock Millgardh. We have an interview clip with Guy Fieri and Kevin Jones as well as a behind-the-scenes look at shooting in Los Angeles. The clips are: 1. Kevin does "Matchmaker" challenge. 2. Kevin does "Nutsacker" challenge. NBC’s new competition show "Minute to Win It," hosted by All-American chef and television personality Guy Fieri ("Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives"), features competitors participating in a series of simple, yet nerve-wracking, games that can lead to a $1 million prize. In each one-hour episode competitors will face 10 challenges that escalate in level of difficulty using everyday household items. Each game has a one minute time limit and failure to finish the task on time will eliminate the contestant.
- 5/7/2010
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Check out 5 new clips from NBC's series premiere of "Minute to Win It." All-American chef Guy Fieri of "Ultimate Recipe Showdown," "The Next Food Network Star" and "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives" hosts the show which has its premiere on March 14th. The show is executive produced by Craig Plestis, Tim Puntillo, Mattias Olsson and Jock Millgardh. Features competitors participating in a series of simple, yet nerve-wracking, games that can lead to a $1 million prize. In each one-hour episode competitors will face 10 challenges that escalate in level of difficulty using everyday household items. Each game has a one minute time limit and failure to finish the task on time will eliminate the contestant. At various points throughout the game, the competitor can walk away with the money earned up to that point - but it'll take nerves of steel to complete all 10 tasks to win $1 million. The competitors, who come from all walks of life,...
- 3/10/2010
- Upcoming-Movies.com
For a million dollars, can you unspool a roll of toilet paper with your body in 60 seconds?
NBC has ordered a new game show from Universal Media Studios in association with Friday TV that creates high-stakes competition based on deceptively simple household challenges.
In "Perfect 10," contestants will be faced with 10 tasks they must complete in 60 seconds. Eight one-hour episodes have been ordered, with former NBC alternative head Craig Plestis and Tim Puntillo ("Identity") serving as executive producers.
By choosing easily replicated challenges, NBC hopes to increase the level of at-home participation and the potential to expand the game to other platforms. The network will post demonstrations of 50 games on a Web site before the show's launch, allowing potential contestants and viewers to practice the tasks.
"I love that it has a mischief as to what the games are, and it looks and feels like we're creating a very different...
NBC has ordered a new game show from Universal Media Studios in association with Friday TV that creates high-stakes competition based on deceptively simple household challenges.
In "Perfect 10," contestants will be faced with 10 tasks they must complete in 60 seconds. Eight one-hour episodes have been ordered, with former NBC alternative head Craig Plestis and Tim Puntillo ("Identity") serving as executive producers.
By choosing easily replicated challenges, NBC hopes to increase the level of at-home participation and the potential to expand the game to other platforms. The network will post demonstrations of 50 games on a Web site before the show's launch, allowing potential contestants and viewers to practice the tasks.
"I love that it has a mischief as to what the games are, and it looks and feels like we're creating a very different...
- 9/29/2009
- by By James Hibberd
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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