TIM TEBOW TO HOST NEW HIGH-STAKES COMPETITION SERIES “MILLION DOLLAR MILE” ON CBS
Sports Commentators Matt “Money” Smith and Maria Taylor
Will Serve as Play-By-Play Reporters
Series
Hails from Executive Producers Allison Grodner and Rich Meehan,
SpringHill Entertainment and Warner Horizon Unscripted & Alternative
Television
Tim Tebow, former college football champion and NFL quarterback, will
serve as host of MILLION DOLLAR MILE, a new 10-episode high-stakes
physical competition series on the CBS Television Network. Matt “Money”
Smith, the voice of the L.A. Chargers play-by-play, and Maria Taylor,
ESPN host and reporter, will serve as commentators.
The series comes from executive producers Allison Grodner and Rich
Meehan with Fly on the Wall Entertainment and LeBron James and Maverick
Carter with SpringHill Entertainment, as well as Warner Horizon
Unscripted & Alternative Television.
“Watching
good people compete at their highest ability is always inspirational to
me,” said Tebow. “MILLION DOLLAR MILE is a show that does just that –
it motivates, thrills, and is aspirational, and I’m excited to be
hosting this show.”
In this unprecedented television event series, contestants will have
the chance to win $1,000,000 every time they run the Million Dollar
Mile. Standing in their way is the most challenging course ever designed
and a group of elite athletes with one mission: to stop the contestants
from winning the money at all costs. Currently, the series is in
production in Los Angeles for broadcast on the CBS Television Network.
Tebow is a two-time national champion, first-round NFL draft pick and
Heisman Trophy winner. Currently, he serves as a college football
analyst for ESPN. Prior to joining ESPN, he played three years in the
NFL for the Denver Broncos and the New York Jets. Now, Tebow is pursuing
a career in professional baseball as a member of the New York Mets
organization. He is the author of three New York Times bestsellers: Through My Eyes, which was named the #1 sports and religion book of 2011; Shaken: Discovering Your True Identity in the Midst of Life’s Storms, released in 2016 and winner of the 2017 Evangelical Christian Publishers Association Book of the Year; and This Is the Day, released
on Sept. 25. The Tim Tebow Foundation was established in 2010 with the
goal of bringing faith, hope and love to those needing a brighter day in
their darkest hour of need.
Matt “Money” Smith has been a Southern California sports staple since
1996. While in college, he was part of the popular “Kevin and Bean Show”
on 106.7 KROQ in Los Angeles, where he remained for over a decade.
While serving as the station’s sports director, he worked as a record
producer for DreamWorks Records, which was later sold to Interscope.
Smith seamlessly slid into the music director chair at KROQ, programming
the station from 2003 until 2005. Later, he was approached by the
Lakers to join a newly configured radio broadcast after the passing of
legendary voice Chick Hearn. In 2006, he partnered with Petros
Papadakis, to form “The Petros and Money Show,” a Los Angeles radio
afternoon drive time powerhouse. He moved on from the Lakers in 2010 to
provide play-by-play duties for NCAA Football, NCAA Basketball, and NFL
Football on Compass Media Networks. In 2017, Smith was named lead
play-by-play announcer for the radio broadcasts of the L.A. Chargers. On
television, he has spent the last seven years as host on the NFL
Network franchise “Fantasy Live” and drives coverage during the Super
Bowl, NFL Draft, NFL Combine and other NFL-sanctioned events. Smith
received two undergraduate degrees at Pepperdine University, where he
met his wife, Kerie. Currently, they reside with their three daughters
in Orange County, Calif.
Maria Taylor is in her sixth season as an analyst, host and reporter
for ESPN. In 2017 Taylor became the first African American woman to
co-host College GameDay Built by The Home Depot. Also, Taylor was the
sideline reporter for ABC Saturday Night Football and patrolled the
sidelines for the 2018 College Football Playoff and National
Championship Game. Previously, she served as the first female host of
SEC Network’s traveling college football show, SEC Nation, alongside
analysts Tim Tebow, Marcus Spears and Paul Finebaum. In addition to her
football duties, Taylor is a host of Big Monday and NCAA Women’s Final
Four and National Championship coverage. She helped launch the SEC
Network as one of three studio hosts and worked as the SEC Primetime
Saturday Night college football reporter with commentators Brent
Musburger and Jesse Palmer. Taylor was a reporter and host for IMG
College at the University of Georgia. She appeared on various Comcast
Sports South studio shows. Taylor co-founded the non-profit organization
The Winning Edge Leadership Academy to develop the next generation of
women and minority leaders in sports business. A native of Alpharetta,
Ga., she attended the University of Georgia, where she played volleyball
and basketball.
About SpringHill Entertainment
SpringHill Entertainment is the entertainment and content company
created by LeBron James and his business partner Maverick Carter. Named
after the public housing complex where James grew up in Akron, Ohio,
SpringHill Entertainment develops creative content across a variety of
platforms including digital, documentary and feature films, and scripted
and unscripted TV. SpringHill’s portfolio of compelling and
aspirational content includes a scripted drama series on Madame C.J.
Walker with Octavia Spencer for Netflix, multi-part NBA documentary film
series “Shut Up & Dribble” for SHOWTIME; “Best Shot with Jay
Williams” for YouTube Premium; the powerful docuseries “Warriors of
Liberty City” for Starz; and NBC’s hit primetime game show “The Wall,”
which has been picked up for season three. Other upcoming projects
include an HBO documentary on the great Muhammad Ali with acclaimed
director Antoine Fuqua, drama series “Top Boy” with Drake and Adel
“Future” Nur for Netflix, the David Meyers-helmed feature “Hustle” for
Legendary, as well as the action comedy “Public Enemy” with Channing
Tatum’s Free Association and a fresh take on the classic “House Party”
at New Line. SpringHill Entertainment also created and owns
UNINTERRUPTED, the digital media company that empowers athletes with a
platform to develop and amplify their stories.
About Warner Horizon Unscripted & Alternative Television
Warner Horizon Unscripted & Alternative Television is one of the
entertainment industry’s leading producers of primetime reality series
for both network and cable. A division of Warner Bros. Unscripted &
Alternative Television, led by Mike Darnell, Warner Horizon’s Unscripted
& Alternative slate includes “The Voice,” “Little Big Shots” and
the Ellen DeGeneres-hosted “Ellen’s Game Of Games,” for NBC; “The
Bachelor” franchise, which also includes “The Bachelorette,” “Bachelor
In Paradise,” for ABC; an updated “Love Connection,” hosted by Andy
Cohen, “Mental Samurai” hosted by Rob Lowe, premiering in 2019 for FOX;
plus the highly anticipated new series “The World’s Best,” premiering
after the 2019 Super Bowl hosted by James Corden and the LeBron
James-executive produced “Million Dollar Mile” for CBS.
About Fly on the Wall Entertainment
Fly on the Wall Entertainment, headed by Allison Grodner and Rich
Meehan, has been responsible for many of unscripted television’s most
innovative and genre-defining programs for the past two decades,
including 20 seasons of the hit series BIG BROTHER on CBS. With a
production slate that spans broadcast, cable and digital, as well as
groundbreaking programming in the live and live-streaming space, this
well respected company is behind such successful shows as “Celebrity Big
Brother,” “Katy Perry: Witness World Wide,” “Flip or Flop Atlanta,”
“This is Life Live,” “Ex-Besties,” “Plain Jane,” “You’re Cut Off,”
“She’s Got the Look,” “Big Rich Texas,” “The Big Tip,” “Summer Camp,”
“OMG! EMT,” “Brat Camp,” “The Family,” “Blow Out,” “Situation: Comedy,”
“Family Business,” “Flipped” and the Emmy Award-winning docu-series “The
Teen Files.”
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