A commenter noted that BuzzerBlog has posted a story about ABC quietly scouting potential contestants for a new version of The Chase.
The story itself says that there's no public casting call yet. And I haven't found any other independent confirmation of the reboot, though Programming Insider has run with the BuzzerBlog post. And so have I, now that you mention it.
GSN's version of the storied format was one of the network's very best originals. The Chase drew consistently strong ratings, though it skewed old and ran up a big prize budget. Mark Labbett didn't often lose but when he did, the losses cost major money by GSN standards. One of those losses was to James Holzhauer of subsequent Jeopardy fame. After James hit it big on Alex's quizzer, GSN even ran a recap of his Chase episode with color commentary by (who else?) Ken Jennings.
BuzzerBlog has a good record of spotting casting calls public and private, so I assume the linked story is correct. Also, ABC has been rebooting every game show format in the known universe, so a Chase rewind would hardly be all that unexpected from the Alphabet Net. Still, there's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip, so I wouldn't guarantee that The Chase will arrive on ABC any time soon, especially with the lockdowns.
But it sure would be nice to see the format turn up on a broadcast network.
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