Every August, talk show host Dave Rubin signs off social media for 31 days.
No new “Rubin Report” tapings. No doom scrolling or digital updates. It’s Rubin’s time to decompress, a voluntary move that grants him a respite from our 24/7 news cycle.
The four contestants in a new FOX Nation game show took the baton from Rubin and tripled his commitment.
“Greg Gutfeld’s What Did I Miss?” asks four contestants to live in a WiFi-free home in upstate New York for 90 days. No family. No friends. No Instagram updates.
And, most of all, no news updates.
Later, they assemble in a FOX Nation studio to guess which news stories are true and which ones are Fake NewsTM. If that’s not enough of a hook, the 90-day mark began on President Donald Trump’s second inauguration ceremony – Jan. 20.
“It’s the strangest game show ever created,” host and Fox News superstar Gutfeld says at the start of the contest.
It’s not marketing hype.
The three-part game show debuts on FOX Nation today, followed by episodes two and three dropping on May 13 and 14, respectively.
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Gutfeld is joined by Fox News regulars Kat Timpf and comedian Jamie Lissow who offer dubious wisdom to the contestants in between wisecracks. Lissow remains a star in waiting, a comedian whose gentle manner belies his pointed wit.
The game show offers several rounds, with contestants occasionally working together before being pitted against one another. The first of the three-part series finds one of the four exiting the playing field.
It’s more emotional than it sounds.
The quartet bonded during their time off the grid, and Team FOX Nation chose the contestants wisely. They’re affable and raw, and they repeatedly well up at the thought of reuniting with their loved ones.
They’ve been apart for 90 days, remember?
That gives the show a dark side, and we’ll hope the contestants are compensated above and beyond whoever lands the grand prize – $50,000.
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But what about the games? It’s a Real News vs. Fake News slugfest, and the 90-day period offered enough wacky revelations to power a show like this. In fact, “What Did I Miss?” may not lean hard enough into the “stranger than fiction” nature of President Trump’s first 90 days.
The following installments may take care of that quibble.
Gutfeld’s persona is an oddly snug fit for the proceedings, which have all the game show trappings with a macabre layer of mirth. The first installment pushes past the 40-minute mark, but there’s rarely a dull moment.
It’s hard to imagine the concept being easily repeated, and Trump’s first 100 days proved more newsworthy than most presidential snippets.
“Greg Gutfeld’s What Did I Miss?” stands as a bracing, original spin on a classic TV show format. At a time when reboots and remakes are all the rage, FOX Nation found a true original.