Lauren Corrao of Comedy Central was interviewed recently by CableWorld Magazine, and had this to say about the new Ken Jennings game show:

The similarity [to Win Ben Stein's money] will be that there are trivia questions and answers. Ken himself will be challenged. Aside from that, the packaging will be quite different. We had been looking for an early fringe game show for a long time. We tried Crossballs as a Crossfire satire in that period last year.

Interesting to note: Corrao produced MTV’s (possibly only) good game show, Remote Control, in 1987.

Q&A with Lauren Corrao (CableWORLD)