If You Can’t Stand the Heat, Stay off truTV: Hot Ones Is Getting a Game Show
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Beloved food/interview YouTube series Hot Ones, in which host Sean Evans asks musicians, comedians, actors and athletes meticulously researched questions while eating increasingly spicy wings with them, is leveling up to television.
truTV announced Wednesday that Evans will be taking his talents (and ingenious premise) to Hot Ones: The Game Show, a weekly half-hour competition series premiering Tuesday, Feb. 18, at 10 p.m. ET. Now, instead of public figures, it will be regular Joes and Janes taking on the hot wing gauntlet, and rather than answering interview questions, they’ll be challenged with trivia questions, duking it out to win a $25,000 grand prize.
The WarnerMedia-owned network is going all-in on Hot Ones, issuing a 20-episode initial order, on which Evans and company have already wrapped production, and pairing Hot Ones: The Game Show with 20 newly licensed episodes of the flagship web series (a production of Complex Networks’ First We Feast), which will air after Hot Ones: The Game Show to make up truTV’s new Hot Ones hour.