Sci Fi channel has found a lord for its estate.

"Crossing Jordan" actor Steve Valentine will host the cable network's reality competition series "Estate of Panic," it was announced Friday.

On each episode of the show, seven strangers are invited to a massive estate where large quantities of cash are hidden. Hunting down the moolah isn't the competitors' only challenge though. Three times contestants will be challenged to overcome as yet unspecified terrors, and each time two participants will be eliminated with their winnings added into the prize pot. The last person then must go to the Vault Room, where the final prize will be determined.

Production will begin this week on the six one-hour episodes of "Estate of Panic," which will premiere Wednesday, Nov. 12 at 10 pm ET/PT on Sci Fi.

The show is created by the same production company behind "Fear Factor."

Valentine, 41, is best known for playing the wise-cracking British criminologist Dr. Nigel Townsend on NBC's "Crossing Jordan."