MrBeast’s $5 million game show for Prime Video could one-up Netflix’s Squid Game
by Emma Roth from The Verge - All Posts on (#6KEGS)
Photo by Chris Unger / Zuffa LLC via Getty Images YouTuber MrBeast (Jimmy Donaldson) has struck a deal with Prime Video to host a new reality competition series called Beast Games. The show will have 1,000 contestants competing for a $5 million reward, which the press release claims is the biggest single prize in the history of television and streaming." There aren't any details yet about what kinds of challenges Beast Games contestants will participate in.
It's a remarkable turn of events, even for someone who's hosted many similar competitions on his YouTube channel, like recent ones where people from every country competed for $250,000 or a group of people from ages 1 to 100 went head-to-head for $500,000.
In 2021, Donaldson made a Squid Game in real life video for his YouTube...