Entertainment

‘Drop’ kick

If the shuttering of OTB has you down-and-depressed (as opposed to down-and-out), Fox has a remedy. Of sorts.

OK, granted the remedy is of the spectator sort rather than the actual gambling sort, but then again, who can afford to gamble a million bucks of their own money?

Right. But Bernie Madoff is locked up and can’t touch whatever blood money he’s dropped in whatever Swiss bank account those bazillions are hiding in.

On the new game show “Million Dollar Money Drop,” contestants play with Fox’s money, and not their own. Hosted by the always affable Kevin Pollak, the game centers around one million bucks which sits on a giant plastic game board like Cher’s face. Yes, like her face, it can drop at any second — despite all that plastic.

Each week, a new team of two gets to answer six multiple choice questions — and wager that million bucks on their choices. They can split the bet between as many answers as they like, or even put it all on one answer. The caveat is that the entire million must be bet each round.

As the answers are revealed, the pile of dough on the wrong answers drops into no-man’s land never to be seen again.

On Monday night’s premiere, the questions range from “Which numbers on the telephone keypad spell out the name of the lead singer of ‘U2?’ ” to “Which is the most popular breakfast cereal?”

During each round, the contestant team must choose from three or four possible answers. From the screener copy sent by Fox, the categories all seem to be pop culture-y, so the more contestants know about celebrities, and pop culture, the better.

Got it? Good. And so is the show. Yes, it feels like the illegitimate child of “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire,” and “Deal Or No Deal,” but I’ll bet you a million bucks, viewers will go for it anyway.