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‘Scrabble’ Game Show Picked Up By The CW As ‘Trivial Pursuit’ Moves Up The Board
The CW is officially in the Scrabble and Trivial Pursuit business. The network has closed deals on a pair of game show bases on the classic board games. Both have been in the works for some time; Deadline reported on Trivial Pursuit being in the works last summer. The CW declined to comment but an […]
Scrabble and Trivial Pursuit are the latest unscripted orders from The CW’s reality chief Heather Olander, who last year told Deadline that she was looking to launch a gameshow with “some IP along with it”. Freeform precursor The Family Channel ran a Trivial Pursuit series hosted by Wink Martindale in 1993/94 that was loosely based on the game, while a syndicated version, Trivial Pursuit: America Plays ran in 2008/09. This is on top of long-running shows such as Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Penn & Teller: Fool Us and Masters of Illusion.
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