Kids beat the clock in February

On a really slow Christmas weekend for game show news, the biggest item I have is the debut date for the new kids version of Beat the Clock. Universal Kids will roll out the reboot February 6 at 7:30 PM. Mark your calendars, mark your clocks, mark your walls with crayon. Okay, kids, don't do anything to the walls or your parents will really get upset.

Paul Costabile hosts, and if you've never heard of him, he seems most famous for being baby daddy to singer Christina Perri. He also does a lot of media stuff around New York City, which is probably where NBC ran across him for this game show gig.

BTC has been around forever in one form or another, so a kids version may have been inevitable sooner or later. My guess is that Universal Kids will do a decent job of adopting the format for the  young'uns. It's kind of hard to screw up, though you have to be careful the kids don't hurt themselves. (I always thought that the liability lawyers must have vetted all those kid stunt shows on Nick very carefully, by the way.)

Universal Kids is an almost unwatched cable net, so far behind Nickelodeon that it's almost a joke. Good luck on rebooting a classic format.

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