
Tonight, Game Show Network premieres its newest skill-based competition series,
Steampunk'd. The series follows ten contestants, or "makers," who use steampunk design esthetics to fulfill challenges. They combine objects from the past and present to create retro-futuristic room designs as well as fashion and technology to fill the "steampunk'd" manor, and try to win the grand prize of $100,000.
The series is hosted by Jeannie Mai, host of the daytime talk show
The Real.
Recently the television personality talked to Jamie Ruby of SciFi Vision in an exclusive interview about the new series.
Most similar genre competitions on television today seem to focus on just fashion or makeup.
Steampunk'd features room design as well. It's much more than just that, according to Mai. "Even more than that to take it a step further, it's not even just about furniture and homes, but it's basically about design and imagination and creativity; that's what it's about. Steampunk is really about the ability to illustrate whatever it is that's going on in your imagination that defines what steampunk is. And all of these makers come bringing it. I mean, they don't mess around, and they all have their own definition of it, and it gets really heated."