High-tech reality show due on Fox

Fox is putting big bucks behind “X-Quest,” an unscripted reality show from Imagine Entertainment, the creative force behind “Apollo 13,” and the co-creator of the hit videogame “Halo.”

Imagine’s Ron Howard and Brian Grazer, along with Imagine TV President David Nevins, will work with Fox reality TV guru Mike Darnell to executive produce the show, in which two teams of contestants with no special training are locked into separate, cramped, high-tech biocrafts designed to simulate life in space. Nevins noted that the “sets will be practical,” with every button, display and video screen actually serving a purpose. Press the wrong button and bad things may happen.