EXCLUSIVE: Fox is tripling down on The Flooring.
The community has handed the Rob Lowe-hosted sport present a second and third season after its first season carried out properly for the community and was spoofed on Saturday Night time Dwell.
The information comes forward of Fox’s Upfront, which is being held in New York tomorrow.
The present, which Deadline revealed had landed at Fox final June, premiered on January 2. It ran for ten episodes by way of to the tip of February.
The community stated that the premiere episode amassed 4.4M multi-platform viewers after seven days of viewing, per Nielsen information, which is a 73% increase from the two.5M that tuned in same-day, making it the community’s most-streamed sport present ever and the community’s most-watched Tuesday unscripted debut in additional than 13 years, since Masterchef premiered in 2010. It continued to carry out properly over its season.
The Flooring is a bodily quiz present that sees 81 contestants face off in quiz duels on a large LED flooring divided into 100 equal squares, every representing its personal subject of data.
The primary challenger, chosen at random, should select certainly one of his or her neighboring opponents to go head-to-head in an epic quiz duel within the opponent’s class. The winner takes over the loser’s sq., gaining worthwhile floor as they develop their territory, whereas the loser exits the sport. The winner should then select – do they proceed on and try and safe one other sq.? Or do they let The Flooring select a brand new challenger? The final contestant standing who positive aspects full management over The Flooring takes residence a life-changing $250,000 money prize.
It’s produced by John De Mol’s Talpa Studios, Holey Moley producer Eureka Productions and BiggerStage, a manufacturing firm primarily based in Eire, the place it’s filmed.
De Mol, Mark van Achterberg, Chris Culvenor, Paul Franklin, Eden Gaha, Wes Dening, Sean O’Riordan and Shane Byrne function government producers. Anthony Carbone serves as showrunner and Rob Lowe is producer.
It’s the newest renewal for the community; Hell’s Kitchen is coming again for 2 extra seasons and scripted drama Alert was handed a 3rd season.
Individually, the community has struck a first-look cope with the Parks and Recreation star. Lowe will develop unscripted sequence to be produced by Fox Various Leisure.
“Followers cherished the primary season of The Flooring a lot that we’ve ordered two extra seasons of this breakthrough sport present with plans already underway to make our epic battle of the brains even greater and bolder,” stated Michael Thorn, President of the Fox Tv Community. “It’s additionally been a large win to have an enormous star like Rob Lowe as our host, and each our viewers and opponents can’t wait to see him again in motion.”
“I couldn’t be happier with The Flooring phenomenon and the chance to create extra unscripted tasks with my companions at Fox,” added Lowe.