FOX Wants 'Nothing But the Truth'

Zap2It.com | August 15, 2007

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Game show will hook players to lie detector

If you cheated on your significant other, would half a million dollars be enough to make you 'fess up?

That's the premise a new FOX game show called "Nothing But the Truth" will test. The network has snapped up the U.S. rights to a Colombian show that has taken that country by storm, drawing more than half the TV audience on nights it airs. The show is being produced in some 20 other countries as well and will go into production shortly for FOX.

"Nothing But the Truth" doesn't have a host or an airdate yet, but it does have a fairly simple format: Contestants are hooked up to a lie detector and asked 21 increasingly personal and delicate questions. If a player answers all 21 honestly, as determined by the polygraph, he or she walks off with $500,000.

The questions, FOX says, will start off fairly benign -- "Do you like your mother-in-law?," for instance -- and get increasingly dicey as the game goes on, leading up to queries like "Have you ever cheated on your spouse?" Family members and friends will be in the audience, and cameras will capture their reactions.

Howard Schultz ("Extreme Makeover," "Sex Wars") is the creator of the American version of "Nothing But the Truth." He'll executive produce the show with Michael Maddocks (VH1's "Love Lounge").