Game Show Network orders US version of STV Studios format ‘Bridge Of Lies’

Beat The Bridge (Source: STV Studios)

Sony-owned US broadcaster Game Show Network has placed a 100-episode order for a US adaptation of STV Studios’ UK quiz show format Bridge Of Lies.

The series, which will launch in June, will air under the local title Beat The Bridge and will be hosted by actor and presenter Cameron Mathison.

The format features an enormous interactive bridge that dares players to cross by stepping on the right answers to challenging trivia questions. Each step forward puts money in the team’s bank, with bonus money for each successful crossing. However, the team gets to keep the money only if it can “beat the bridge” by returning one of its players back across before time expires in the end game.

The original UK version of Bridge Of Lies, hosted by Ross Kemp, was first commissioned by BBC Daytime in 2021 as part of an initiative to find new quiz formats made in Scotland. It has since been recommissioned twice, with two primetime series featuring celebrity contestants also commissioned for BBC One.

The programme currently airs in 16 territories, and a local version in Spain – El peunte de las mentiras – aired on public broadcaster La 1 in 2023.

This US version, Beat The Bridge is a Game Show Enterprises Studios production with Ed Egan as executive producer and Sabrina Hybel Snow as co-executive producer. Josephine Brassey, Gary Chippington and David Mortimer serve as executive producers for STV Studios.

The US deal was brokered by STV Studios, which retained the rights to format sales in the US and Australia. International format sales elsewhere are handled by BBC Studios Distribution.

David Mortimer, managing director of STV Studios and executive producer of Beat The Bridge, said: “Bringing Bridge Of Lies to America is just the latest step in the format’s international success story, and I’m looking forward to seeing the response to Beat The Bridge from US audiences when it launches in June.”