‘College Bowl’ Renewed For Season 2 At NBC; Harry Friedman To Serve As Showrunner

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NBC is bringing back College Bowl for a second season.Hosts Peyton Manning and Cooper Manning will return for the sophomore season along with a new showrunner.

Harry Friedman, who spent 25 years exec producing Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!, will oversee the show as showrunner and exec producer.The show, which is a reboot of the game that originally aired on radio stations in 1953 before moving to TV in 1959, launched in June 2021.

It features teams representing various colleges competing in a series of question round – 16 elite teams representing some of the nation’s top schools will go head-to-head.The winning team will take home a scholarship with sponsor Capital One awarding $1M in tuition assistance.Friedman, who recently teamed up with former Dancing with the Stars host Tom Bergeron on a new take on Tic-Tac-Dough for NBCUniversal, replaces The Titan Games exec producer David Friedman, who was showrunner on season one.The series is produced by Steve Mosko-run Village Roadshow Television and Universal Television Alternative Studio.

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