MSNBC’s Alex Wagner has been tapped to host a reboot of Netflix’s high-stakes competition series “The Mole,” which will premiere on the streamer on October 7.
“The Mole” is billed as a “reimagined version” of the cult ABC original and is based on the Belgian format “De Mole”, created by Bart de Pauw, Michel Vanhove, Michel DeVillieger and Tom Lennarts. distributed by primitives. In the show, 12 players work together in challenges to add money to a pot that only one of them will win at the end. Among the players is a man secretly named “The Mole” and tasked with sabotaging the group’s money-making efforts. In the end, one player will overtake his competition and expose the mole to win the prize pot.
Netflix will release its 10 45-minute episodes over the course of three weeks. Executive producers are Chris Kalvenor, Paul Franklin, Wes Denning, Rikki Prost, David Tibble and David Burris. Eureka Productions is behind the production.
Wagner is the host of “Alex Wagner Tonight,” which airs Tuesday through Friday at 9 p.m. on MSNBC. Prior to her self-titled show, she was the co-host and executive producer of “The Circus,” Showtime’s Emmy-nominated weekly documentary series chronicling American politics. She was a contributing writer for The Atlantic, and is the author of “Futureface,” a critically acclaimed memoir about identity and immigration. Previously, Wagner was a special correspondent with CBS News and co-host of “CBS This Morning: Saturday”, host of the Emmy-nominated “Now with Alex Wagner” on MSNBC, and co-host of Slate’s “Podcast for America”. Were.
“The Mole” was hosted by Anderson Cooper and was part of the unscripted TV boom of the 2000s. The cult competition show added its first two seasons to Netflix last summer, prompting speculation about its return.
