Australian comedian and television personality Rove McManus is heading to America to front a new game show for the Fox network.
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McManus has secured a gig hosting the US adaptation of the studio-based comedy game show SlideShow.
The US version, which will be titled Riot, is being developed by Shine America and US comedian/producer Steve Carell.
Rupert Murdoch's Fox network has given Shine America an eight episode order for the series.
It is based on the international format Anything Goes, originally created by Arthur Essebag for French television, in which two teams of comedians and actors challenge each other to a series of stunts.
It was a hit for France's TF1, where it is titled Vendredi Tout est Permis Avec Arthur. That roughly translates as: On Fridays, Anything Goes with Arthur.
Shine America's parent company, Shine Group, represents the format internationally, and has sold local-language versions of the format into Portugal, Denmark, Spain, Brazil, Ukraine and Romania.
When Fox signed the deal with Shine America for the series in October last year, Fox network boss Kevin Reilly described the show as "the most ridiculously fun and out-there thing I've seen in quite awhile."
An Australian version screened on the Seven Network last year, but was cancelled this year. It was hosted by Grant Denyer and featured Cal Wilson and Toby Truslove as the team captains.
The US version will be produced by Shine America and Carell's production company, Carousel Television. Shine America's Eden Gaha and Paul Franklin - both Australian - will executive produce the series, along with Carell.
McManus is not new to American television.
He was based in Los Angeles for several years, as a contributor - and for a time, potential successor - to Jay Leno's Tonight Show - and hosted a weekly talk show for Foxtel which screened on the TV Guide channel in the US, New Zealand's TV3 and the UK's E! channel.
