Candy Crush Saga will have its own TV show
Yes Angry Birds already has its movie and Fruit Ninja their series, they had to create something with Candy Crush Saga after having been one of the most downloaded and most profitable games of the story And so it is. Candy Crush Saga will have its own television show produced by CBS in collaboration with King.com Games and LiongateIt is the era of mobile content making the leap to television and movie screens.
CBS herself has confirmed this with a presentation in which she has offered a few and vague details about the contest featuring the mobile game. In this way, its genre will be that of programs of physical and logical challenges Teams made up of two people they will have to test their ingenuity and fitness through a large board where they will face different challenges with “next generation technology” Something that They have called the Candy Crush Arena However, details about the tests are unknown. The show will be an hour long and it seems that its frequency would be weekly
Behind the executive production of this interesting project is Matt Kunitz, a name known in American television after producing other successful formats such as Fear Factor and Wipeout, entertainment programs in which the contestants' physical fitness and courage are the main protagonists.According to Kunitz, who identifies himself as a regular player of Candy Crush Saga, he is excited about bring the action and visuals of the mobile title to the huge Candy Crush Arena, the stage where all the action will take place.
The idea of the program doesn't break with the game directly. In fact, in its statement, CBS proposes to the millions of players to also be entertained during the program. And it is that they intend to create a second screen experience, being able to enjoy the title of matching three or more candies in line while users take a look at the action that occurs on the screen.
However, at the moment other details are unknown, such as the date of the premiere or even who will be the presenter of the programIssues that will be revealed soon. It is also not known if the format will cross borders. For this, we will have to wait for its premiere and its success. However, given what has been seen with the game, it is to be expected that the program will have some impact.
Candy Crush Saga thus adds to the current trend of bringing mobile blockbusters to other screens. And it is that mobile video games have supplied charismatic characters and mechanics that have conquered half the world. Movies, animated series, merchandising and many more commercial products that exploit and overexploit some franchises that have achieved a huge number of downloads on mobile phones. A risky proposal that seems to be working, at least in the most striking cases such as the movie Angry Birds And you you prefer to see or do you prefer to play Candy Crush Saga?
