Tuesday nights in the summertime months are typically dominated in primetime by NBC with America’s Acquired Expertise, however AGT is not the one hit present the community has on Tuesdays at this level within the 2025 TV schedule. Vacation spot X is a brand new journey competitors present that takes contestants throughout Europe in a bus with blocked out home windows, and so they have to attach clues and face bodily challenges to attempt to establish the place they really are in pursuit of a grand prize. Jeffrey Dean Morgan of The Strolling Useless franchise is the host, and if he looks like a stunning alternative, he would doubtless agree primarily based on some current feedback!
Whereas Morgan as soon as might need been most recognizable for taking part in (pre- and post-death) Denny on Gray’s Anatomy or John Winchester on Supernatural with questionable parenting expertise, he is doubtless greatest recognized these days because the baseball bat-wielding unhealthy man Negan in The Strolling Useless world. Most not too long ago, he starred reverse Lauren Cohan in Season 2 of The Strolling Useless: Useless Metropolis. All of that is to say that the actor is thought largely for scripted TV exhibits, and in an look on Late Night time with Seth Meyers, Morgan defined why he thought he was the mistaken man for the Vacation spot X job:
I believed they’d it mistaken. You recognize, it’s type of a Ryan Seacrest sort gig…I believed NBC had the mistaken cellphone quantity.
I can not blame Jeffrey Dean Morgan for instantly assuming that any individual like Ryan Seacrest can be the apparent alternative for a brand new internet hosting gig. Seacrest shot to fame as host of American Idol again way back to the primary season of the unique run on Fox, and has landed internet hosting gig after internet hosting gig to the purpose that he now could be the grasp of ceremonies on Wheel of Fortune. Seacrest is knowledgeable host; Morgan is an actor with an extended listing of credit. He went on:
And I mentioned no a few occasions. They usually stored coming again and saying ‘No, we expect that you’ve this…’ They needed any individual tough across the edges.
Apparently, the individuals at NBC tasked with casting the host for Vacation spot X have been set on Jeffrey Dean Morgan, to the purpose that they weren’t taking “no” for a solution. Morgan went on to say that he thinks “what NBC noticed” was that he does “like inflicting points for different individuals and I take pleasure in it.” And – to cite the competitor often known as Biggy – “dadgum” it, he’s delivering for the contestants of Vacation spot X!
Based on The Strolling Useless villain, he did not in the end signal on for Vacation spot X simply because he needed to have enjoyable inflicting points for the gamers. He credited spouse (and One Tree Hill alum) Hilarie Burton for some phrases of knowledge, saying:
Nevertheless it was my spouse who was like ‘Do that,’ as a result of I’m not a spring hen anymore, and bouncing off the pavement after a zombie wipes me out is getting more durable. So, she was like, ‘Give this a go, it’d be good if individuals noticed your persona,’ the devious [bleeped out] facet.
Vacation spot X could have him trekking throughout Europe to torment the gamers who’re vying for the grand prize, however at no level has he needed to wield a baseball bat wrapped with barbed wire to attempt to fend off a horde of zombies and/or followers who nonetheless begrudge Negan for what he did to Steven Yeun’s Glenn.
New episodes of Vacation spot X air on Tuesdays at 10 p.m. ET on NBC, instantly following America’s Acquired Expertise. You may as well stream episodes subsequent day with a Peacock subscription. Solely 5 episodes have aired up to now, so it would not take too lengthy to catch up if you have not been tuning in up to now.