{"id":183370,"date":"2016-10-19T10:28:23","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T08:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=183370"},"modified":"2016-10-19T10:29:30","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T08:29:30","slug":"live-action-candy-crush-tv-game-show-in-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/183370-live-action-candy-crush-tv-game-show-in-development.html","title":{"rendered":"Live action Candy Crush TV game show in development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CBS is\u00a0adapting Candy Crush into a game show for television, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2016\/10\/candy-crush-is-becoming-a-tv-game-show-for-some-reason\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ars Technica reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Lionsgate TV and game developer\u00a0King Ltd. have partnered to produce the show.<\/p>\n<p>It will feature teams of two people, who will &#8220;use 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&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Kunitz, the producer of\u00a0Wipeout and Fear Factor, will head up\u00a0the show, along with\u00a0King&#8217;s chief\u00a0creative officer Sebastian Knutsson.<\/p>\n<p>No host has been announced.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/115415-british-mp-apologises-for-playing-candy-crush.html\">British MP apologises for playing Candy Crush<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Candy Crush series is being adapted into a live action TV game show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":95227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[36,23424,9451],"class_list":["post-183370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-active","tag-candy-crush","tag-cbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183398,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183370\/revisions\/183398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}