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The Chase is an American television quiz show adapted from the British program of the same name. It premiered on August 6, 2013, on the Game Show Network (GSN). It was hosted by Brooke Burns and featured Mark Labbett as the "chaser" (referred to on air exclusively by his nickname "the Beast"). A revival of the show premiered on January 7, 2021, on ABC. It was hosted by Sara Haines and initially featured as the chasers Jeopardy! champions James Holzhauer (who was a contestant on the GSN version), Ken Jennings, and Brad Rutter. Labbett returned as a chaser in June 2021, before stepping down in 2022 along with Jennings. In their place are Buzzy Cohen, Brandon Blackwell, and Victoria Groce.

The American version of the show followed the same general format as the British version, but with teams of three contestants instead of four. The game was a quiz competition in which contestants attempted to win money by challenging a quizzing expert known as the chaser. Each contestant participated in an individual "chase" called the Cash Builder, in which they attempted to answer as many questions as possible in 60 seconds to earn as much money as possible to contribute to a prize fund for the team. The contestant then had to answer enough questions to stay ahead of the chaser in a head-to-head competition scored on a game board; otherwise, they lost their winnings and were eliminated. The contestants who successfully completed their individual chases without being caught advanced to the Final Chase, in which they answered questions as a team playing for an equal share of the prize fund accumulated throughout the episode.

The Chase received positive critical reception; Burns and Labbett earned positive reviews for their roles, and one critic praised the series for avoiding a slow pace in gameplay. Both the series and Burns received Daytime Emmy Award nominations; the series was nominated in 2014 for Outstanding Game Show, and Burns two years later for Outstanding Game Show Host. Each lost, to Jeopardy! and Craig Ferguson (host of Celebrity Name Game) respectively.

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