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The Moment of Truth

  • Watchlist
  • 2008-2008
  • 3 Seasons
  • Fox Network
  • Game Show, Reality
  • TV-14
  • Watchlist

Game show contestants are given a polygraph test and asked hard-hitting questions in front of a live audience in order to win a cash prize.

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Cast & Crew See All

Mark L. Walberg
Self - Host
Kris Mohandie
Self - Psychologist
Catherine R. Seldon
Psychologist

Season 3 Episode Guide See All

Episode 2

Miami Husband

Sat, May 3, 2008

Where to Watch

Awards

  • 2008 - Teen Choice Award - Choice TV Game Show - nominated
  • 2009 - ASCAP Award - Top Television Series - winner
  • 2008 - OFTA Television Award - Best Game Show - nominated
  • 2009 - OFTA Television Award - Best Game Show - nominated

Latest News See All

Fall TV Press Tour: 24, Fringe, Truth Talk & More

Matt and Mickey here at the TCA press tour. Fox entertainment president Kevin Reilly has taken the stage to field questions. • First discussing Fringe, Reilly says that Fox was hot to work with J.J. Abrams, and thus offered him a series "on Day 1." Pegging Fringe as "X-Files meets Indiana Jones," Reilly says, "Sometimes with these big show runners, it's all hype and no delivery.... This one is going to bring the goods."• Reilly reiterates that which has been said before and by others: "24 is going to come back rocking and rolling" after suffering hard from a full season's postponement. "It was a good opportunity for [exec producer] Howard [Gordon], who is such a perfectionist," he explains. "He was really wanting this next season to be great, and it was unfortunate that he got interrupted [by the WGA strike]." Reilly adds that the "prequel" movie airing Nov. 23 "is a cool piece of business."• Explaining the decision to get in bed with Ozzy Osbourne and family, Reilly ...

Mon, Jul 14, 2008
Fall TV Press Tour: 24, Fringe, Truth Talk & More

Moment of Truth Host: Home-wrecker Rap Is "Crap"

While conceding that Moment of Truth isn't "doing God's work," host Mark Walberg refuses to let the Fox series absorb undeserved blame. "Quite honestly, the 'wrecking-your-family,' evildoing rap we get, I think it's crap," Walberg said in a conference call promoting Truth's May 27 return. "No family gets wrecked unless they're wrecking it anyway." To make his case, Walberg notes that only one married couple from the show has since split — and they were on the skids to begin with.Walberg says Season 2 will branch out to include more questions outside the realm of infidelity and illicit sex. Example: "Did you really vote for Archuleta?" What's your take? Do the Truth-tellers know what they're getting into and thus should be prepared for any fallout? — MWM

Thu, May 22, 2008
Moment of Truth Host: Home-wrecker Rap Is "Crap"

Ratings Roundup: Networks Getting Out-Foxed

Surprise, surprise: Fox's Wed. viewers outnumbered those on any other network, again, with American Idol and Moment of Truth leading the way. The roundup, with preliminary Nielsen numbers:• Idol was up week over week, with 26 million viewers for the night, beating the combined big three from 8-9 pm in adults 18-49 by 55 percent. It was followed by ABC's Wife Swap, which was also up, with six mil. • Starting at 9 pm, Fox's Moment led the pack, slipping from last week but still on top with 16.9 mil viewers. It was followed by ABC's Supernanny (7.6 mil), and repeats on the other nets.• CBS took the lead at 10 pm with a CSI:NY ep that scored 10.7 mil, which outdid a Law & Order ep on NBC, as well as ABC's Cashmere Mafia.• The CW, meanwhile scored a sad 1.7 mil overall at 8 pm with the special, America's Next Top Model Exposed. The actual Top Model, which is a star of the network, will be back next month. — Anna DimondRelated:• House Has a Truly Super T...

Fri, Feb 8, 2008
Ratings Roundup: Networks Getting Out-Foxed

The Truth About Fox's Controversial Reality Show

With 23 million viewers, The Moment of Truth (Wednesdays, 9 pm/ET, Fox) garnered the highest-rated series debut in over a year — and the numbers don't lie. Here are some more cold, hard facts about the new Fox hit that asks lie-detector-tested contestants to put their reputations on the line by answering increasingly more personal (and more embarrassing) questions, for a chance at $500,000. FACT: To come up with each player's 21 questions, producers dig deep. Contestants' friends and family are interrogated thoroughly. "They research your whole life," says Christie Youssef, 22, who admitted she's a virgin in the second episode. "I didn't have any idea of the scope until afterward." FACT: No player has been fired because of something they revealed on the show. At least not yet. That could change after emergency medical technician Aaron Du

Wed, Feb 6, 2008
The Truth About Fox's Controversial Reality Show

Fox Tells More Truth with Less Faux Drama

Reassured by second-week numbers, Fox has ordered 13 additional episodes of The Moment of Truth, which in large part because of its Idol lead-in has emerged as the season's top-rated new show. Casting is now under way for a new batch of contestants — apparently many who had signed on and bailed after seeing the first two outings — and a Feb. 11 production start is set.One of the most criticized aspects of Truth... the exaggerated pauses between questions... and... answers, is now being addressed in editing... starting with this past... Wednesday's show.

Fri, Feb 1, 2008
Fox Tells More Truth with Less Faux Drama