Candy Crush is becoming a TV game show for some reason

At this point, we’re used to ultra-popular video game franchises being licensed out as film properties, from the somewhat obvious to the seemingly nonsensical. What’s much less common—outside of the syndicated children’s animated cartoon realm—is a video game making the leap to become a TV show. So our “huh?” sensors perked up a little when we read this morning that the ridiculously popular Candy Crush series of mobile games is being adapted into a game show for CBS.

Lionsgate TV and game maker King Ltd. are teaming up to produce the show, which will feature “teams of two people us[ing] their wits and physical agility to compete on enormous, interactive game boards featuring next generation technology to conquer Candy Crush and be crowned the champion,” according to the announcement. Lionsgate chairman Kevin Beggs described the show in a release as “an incredibly visual, physical, and fun TV program,” which has us picturing something like Nickelodeon’s Double Dare, but with more candy. (We can dream, can’t we?)

Matt Kunitz (the producer behind Wipeout and Fear Factor) will helm the show in collaboration with King Chief Creative Officer Sebastian Knutsson, ensuring that the TV adaptation doesn’t introduce candies that aren’t faithful to the mobile game, we suppose. No host has been announced.

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