NEW DELHI:

After hosting the hugely successful television game show Kaun Banega Crorepati 3 (KBC) on STAR Plus, Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan will be back as host of a new reality game show for the channel.

The yet-to-be-titled show is formatted on Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader,a US-based game show featuring adult contestants facing questions picked directly from the textbooks of first standard till fifth graders.

Siddhartha Basu, head of Synergy Adlabs, confirming the news, said, “Shah Rukh will be hosting the Indian version of Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader, the biggest reality show of

the past year in the US, which will be produced by Synergy Adlabs.”

According to reports, Shah Rukh will also host the fourth season of KBC.