Smartphones are not just a way to interact with the people, download apps or work, now you can win a million dollars playing quiz game show sitting right from your home.
The popular multiplayer trivia app QuizUp developer Plain Vanilla is partnering with NBC to produce its own game show QuizUp America which will air on its network. 10 episodes have been ordered till now and the format was developed in-house at sibling Universal Television in partnership with Plain Vanilla. It will be shopped by NBCU International Formats at MIPCOM next week.
To qualify for a spot as an in-studio or at-home contestant on the show, candidates will have to successfully pass a trivia quiz that would be generated anew every week. Branded as NBC QuizUp, it will be linked through the main QuizUp app.
In-studio contestants will try to win eight trivia battles against viewers who play in real-time from home on their mobile devices. If the in-studio contestant wins all eight rounds against eight different at-home competitors, they can win up to $1 million. Any of the at-home players who win their battle will walk away with the money allocated to that round.
Even if they don’t qualify or don’t take the mobile quiz, viewers at home will be able to play along while watching (live or on DVR), with each question and answer synchronized with the broadcast via the QuizUp app.
Created by Jeff Apploff (Don’t Forget The Lyrics) and Wes Kauble (The Newlywed Game), the TV game show will keep the multi-player format of the trivia app.
Launched in 2013, the QuizUp app according to its creator still has over 75 million users but the number is much less than it was when the app launched in 2013. With QuizUp America, the app may just get back to top of the charts in the App stores.