‘The Wall’ Season 5 on NBC: Meet the Emmy award-winning host Chris Hardwick
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: 'The Wall' is an American reality show that premiered on NBC in 2016 and will return soon for its fifth season. 'The Wall' is a four-story pegboard divided into 15 slots at the bottom with various US dollars ranging from $1 to $1,000,000. Two contestants compete as a team in a game of knowledge and chance. When a team correctly answers a trivia question, a green ball falls from the top of the grid-like wall and jumps randomly toward the bottom of the four-story building. The ball will land at the bottom of the wall in one of many slots and the amount is added to the team's overall winnings. If the team fails to answer a question, a red ball falls into a random slot. The eventual results quantity is then debited from the team's total. To win a large cash prize in this game, players must have both correct answers and lucky bounces.
Glassman Media, in collaboration with CORE Media, created 'The Wall', which was produced in partnership with Universal Television Alternative Studio, a branch of Universal Studio Group. LeBron James, Chris Hardwick, Maverick Carter, Aaron Long, Jessica Otazua, Quintin Strack, Andrew Glassman, and Tim Sullivan from the SpringHill Companies and Glassman Media are serving as executive producers.
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Who will feature on the show?
The new season of 'The Wall' will feature an impressive lineup of contestants. Among them is a retired public transportation supervisor who bravely shielded a man from an oncoming vehicle. Another contestant is a Capitol Police officer who saved a Congressman's life. A retired Army staff sergeant who lost body parts while serving overseas, and a young couple who managed to recover more than 100,000 pounds of money from their neighborhood will also appear on the show.
Meet the host of the show
Chris Hardwick is an actor, comedian, writer, producer, and television and podcast host known for his quick wit and cutting-edge intellect. The actor is presently the founder, CEO, and creative director of Nerdist Industries, a media conglomerate under the Legendary Digital Network that includes the Nerdist.com website, YouTube channel, and podcast network of 49 shows that he continues to host weekly and has managed to attract several of the industry's biggest names such as Tom Hanks, Mel Brooks, Jodie Foster, Tom Cruise, and Paul McCartney.
Hardwick is perhaps best known as the host and executive producer of the two-time Emmy Award-winning nightly comedy game show 'Midnight with Chris Hardwick' on Comedy Central. The comedian is still hosting and executive producing current and new 'Talking' live after-shows, such as 'Talking Dead', 'Talking Dead: Fear Edition', 'Talking Saul', and 'Talking Preacher'. In 2012, Comedy Central aired Hardwick's first comedy special, 'Mandroid'. The comedian completed his 'Funcomfortable' tour in 2016, during which he filmed his new one-hour comedy special of the same name.
Off-screen, Hardwick co-founded Puny Entertainment with Shadi Petosky, an interactive entertainment and animation studio that focuses on design and story. 'Danger & Eggs', the duo's first original series, has been picked up for a series on Amazon. The excursions of fearless DD Danger and her already best friend, a talking egg named Phillip, are represented in the animated children's show. For six years, he was a contributing writer for Wired magazine, and in 2011, he published his first book, 'The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level (In Real Life)'.
‘The Wall’ will premiere on NBC on April 11, 2023, at 9 pm ET/PT .