Child Genius: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Lifetime's all-new competition series "Child Genius" (#ChildGenius) centers on America's most extraordinary and gifted children and their families as they prepare for a national intelligence competition. In cooperation with American Mensa, the competition takes place over eight weeks and tests the nation's brightest young minds on their knowledge of Math, Spelling, Geography, Memory, the Human Body, U.S. Presidents, Vocabulary, Current Events, Zoology, Astronomy and Space, Inventions, Literature and the Arts, Earth Science and Logic.

Series details

• Title: Child Genius
• Format: Reality
• Language: English
• Premiere date: 2015-01-06
• Final broadcast date listed: 2016-03-10
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: Lifetime
• Network country: United States
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 1173

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2015-01-06; final listed air date 2015-02-24.
• Season 2: premiered 2016-01-07; final listed air date 2016-03-10; episode order: 10.

Source and licence

Adapted from Child Genius on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.