The American Bible Challenge is a biblical-themed American television game show created by Game Show Network. The series is hosted by comedian Jeff Foxworthy, with gospel musician Kirk Franklin joining Foxworthy as co-host and announcer in the second season. Each season of the series is played as a nine-episode tournament with six episodes of opening rounds, two semi-finals, and a final. The team that wins the season-long tournament earns a total of USD 140,000 for their charity.
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The American Bible Challenge is a biblical-themed American television game show created by Game Show Network. The series is hosted by comedian Jeff Foxworthy, with gospel musician Kirk Franklin joining Foxworthy as co-host and announcer in the second season. Each season of the series is played as a nine-episode tournament with six episodes of opening rounds, two semi-finals, and a final. The team that wins the season-long tournament earns a total of USD 140,000 for their charity. The show received two nominations at the 41st Daytime Emmy Awards: one for the series as Outstanding Game Show and the other for Foxworthy. They lost to Jeopardy! and Steve Harvey, respectively, in the OutstandingGame Show Host category. In 2014, the show became the highest-rated original program in the history of Game Show network. It was also the most-watched game show of all time on the network, with an average audience of 8.2 million viewers per episode. It is the second-highest-rated game show on Game ShowNetwork, after The Amazing Race, which had an audience of 7.9 million viewers. The game is currently in its ninth season. The first season was released on August 23, 2012, and has been running since August 24, 2012. The second season premiered on August 26, 2013, and the third season began on August 28, 2013.
The third season will be released on September 6, 2013 and the fourth season on September 13, 2013; the fifth and sixth seasons will be aired on September 20, 2014, and September 21, 2014. The final season will air on September 28, 2015, and October 1, 2015. The fourth season will premiere on October 2, 2015; the sixth and seventh seasons are scheduled to air on October 14, 2015 and October 21, 2016. The seventh and eighth seasons will also be released in October and October 22, 2016; the eighth and October 23, 2016 are the final seasons of the show. The eighth and ninth seasons will feature a special episode entitled Kirk’s Righteous Remix, which features a choir singing songs relating to various books of the Bible. The last season will feature an episode entitled The Final Revelation, entitled The Revelation, which will be broadcast on October 28, 2016 and October 29, 2017. It will be the last season to feature the show’s final episode, entitled “The Final Revelation”, which airs on October 30, 2017 and October 31, 2017; the final season is scheduled for October 30th, 2018. The host announces the category for the game before the first round of gameplay.
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