NBC to stick a bunch of people in a giant hourglass for 12 days, for your amusement
Forever looking for new ways to combine entertainment with human suffering, NBC has announced a new reality series for the fall called The Million Second Quiz, a live competition that combines trivia quizzes with the titillating hope you’ll see someone go insane. As its title sort-of suggests, the show will last for a million seconds—or just under 12 straight days—during which contestants will be forced to live in a giant hourglass being built in “the heart of Manhattan,” where the heart is. There they’ll be bombarded with trivia questions and, probably, bags of feces for 24 hours a day, all while viewers play along via the Internet, from the comfort of their own hourglasses.