Nash
Spike is mining its next hit in old-school reality TV.
Men's cabler and exec producer Bruce Nash are reviving the NBC series "World's Most Amazing Videos," greenlighting production on 26 one-hour episodes.
Network already has rights to the existing 26 episodes that ran on the Peacock from 1999-2001.
"Amazing Videos" races through 15-18 clips per hour, featuring rescues, shootouts, explosions and various absurdities.
Production recently began on the upcoming cycle, set to bow sometime next spring. Stacey Keach will resume his role as narrator.
Nash said the show is perfectly suited to Spike's young male demographic, describing it as "short-attention-span theater." For the new episodes, he "will compile segs that "push the envelope more. It'll be relentless action for Spike."
Among the more infamous events caught on film and featured on the skein are an incident in which a zookeeper stuck his head up an elephant's behind and got stuck, and the story of a pilot who got chewed up by a jet engine and lived to talk about it.
Nash serves as exec producer with Robyn Nash and Debra Weeks. He is best known for reality shows "Meet My Folks" and "Outback Jack." He is at work on a pair of telepics for ABC Family and has set up features at Revolution Studios, New Line, Paramount and Warner Bros.
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