• September 1, 2006

Fox has begun production on a new quiz show, "The Rich List," with British studio 12 Yard Productions. It's scheduled to air during the 2006-07 season. Strangers paired at random are thrown together to form teams that must outwit their opponents by filling in missing answers on a list. The wide-ranging list topics could be films directed by Steven Spielberg, hit singles by ABBA or states with a coastline. Contestants bid upward against each other, while predicting how many answers on a particular subject they can list. If a team fails to list as many answers as it thought it could, the other team wins. 12 Yard's David Young, Andy Culpin and Mike Beale are executive producing. The company also produced the short-lived ABC reality series "The Benefactor."