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by Allison Waldman, posted Jan 28th 2010 11:01PM
Is there anything Neil Patrick Harris can't do? The other night he was positively stellar on American Idol as a guest judge, stealing the spotlight from Simon by being a fair but stern discerner of the talented and the talentless. You could really see him as a permanent replacement for Simon Cowell and doing a damn, good job. Then there was Dr. Horrible, Emmy host, Tony host and, naturally, Barney on How I Met Your Mother. Neil is a jack of all trade and a master of most!Now we can add game show host to the list of accomplishments. The British competition show The Cube is coming to CBS and Neil Patrick Harris will be the host. You may recall that Fox attempted to get The Cube to America. After spending a few months developing it, the network dropped it in December.
The producers took the idea to CBS and Harris became interested in hosting and executive producing, along with Adam Adler, Andrew Newman and Andrew O'Connor. The plan is for Neil to wrap How I Met Your Mother, then fly to London to film the pilot for The Cube.
The idea for The Cube sounds kind of simplistic. A contestant is placed in a glass cube and asked to complete specific challenges. The pressure of being confined and under the scrutiny of a live audience apparently gets to people and makes the simplest tasks more difficult.
It actually sounds like the episode of The Twilight Zone where the guy made a wager that he could remain silent for a year and had to live in a glass room to make sure he didn't utter a sound. (The episode was called "The Silence.")
Whatever... If The Cube pilot is a success, CBS would probably launch it as a summer series.
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