LOS ANGELES — This isn’t your grandparents’ “Beat the Clock.”
Inside a soundstage at YouTube Space LA, which is a high-tech production facility operated by the streaming video site, a couple of YouTube stars have been outfitted with helmets and jockstraps affixed with long hooks. The guys are furiously gyrating their bodies in an attempt to nab rings scattered across the set in under 60 seconds — all while several cameras capture each thrust.
In this updated “Beat the Clock,” the clock is on a flat-screen TV and the audience chills out on couches.
FremantleMedia North America, the production company best known for keeping “American Idol” and “The Price is Right” on the airwaves, commissioned its digital content studio Tiny Riot! last year to begin revamping classic game shows from its library of more than 150 series, such as “Password” and “Body Language,” for its ad-supported Buzzr channel on YouTube.
