Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorSchool may be out in summer, but not this year. “College Bowl,” the quiz show that challenged college students and aired on broadcast TV for more than a decade, is poised to make a comeback on NBC as a series starting in June.Football great Peyton Manning will host the program, which aired on radio stations in the 1950s before moving to CBS and then NBC between 1959 and 1970, and will be assisted by his brother, Cooper Manning.
In each show, teams of three representing some of the nation’s top schools must work together to answer questions on a wide variety of subjects.
The top two schools advance to the final, where they compete head-to-head for the Capital One College Bowl trophy and a scholarship to put.
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