Nearly five decades after IMG’s Battle of the Network Stars pitted television’s biggest names against each other, Peyton Manning’s Omaha Productions is reimagining it in the streaming era.
This Friday, Oct. 23, The Roku Channel will debut Battle of the Streaming Stars, a competition show featuring an all-star cast, an America’s Got Talent host, and a major prize at stake: the Golden Roku Remote. Personalities from television, comedy, social media, and entertainment will collide in head-to-head challenges inspired by popular shows and movies, with each team battling it out across each one-hour episodes.
The cast will be divided into three teams of four. According to Deadline, the full lineup is as follows: Rachel Lindsay of The Bachelorette, actor Skylar Astin, Sonja Morgan of The Golden Life, content creator Josh Richards, actor Kel Mitchell, WWE Hall of Famer Nikki Bella, actor Benjamin Hollingsworth, comedian Loni Love, reality TV star Dorinda Medley, NFL star Akbar Gbajabiamila, Lizzy Mathis of Honest Renovations, and actor Tituss Burgess. Specific team divisions have yet to be announced.
Terry Crews has come aboard as the competition’s host and an executive producer. Kay Adams serves as a sideline reporter, while Yvette Nicole Brown will referee the action.
“Battle of the Network Stars was an iconic celebration of television, bringing together the personalities audiences loved,” Brian Tannenbaum, Head of Roku Originals, Roku Media said in a press release. “With Battle of the Streaming Stars, we’re taking that spirit and reinventing it for how audiences stream entertainment today. Together with Peyton Manning and Omaha Productions, Terry Crews, Yvette Nicole Brown, and Kay Adams, we’re bringing some of streaming’s most entertaining personalities off the screen and onto the field for a competition that’s big, funny, unexpected, and uniquely Roku.”
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