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Get able to reply extra trivia questions on The CW. Trivial Pursuit has been renewed for a second season with a 30-episode order. The primary season of 13 episodes completed airing in December.
A recreation present based mostly on the favored board recreation first revealed in 1981, the Trivial Pursuit collection is hosted by LeVar Burton. The gameplay happens on an enormous model of the long-lasting Trivial Pursuit recreation board as contestants reply trivia inquiries to win wedges and factors. Within the first spherical of every recreation, three contestants accrue factors by answering questions from the six Trivial Pursuit classes — Leisure, Geography, Sports activities & Leisure, Science & Nature, Historical past, and Artwork & Literature. On the finish of the primary spherical, the highest two gamers transfer on to the subsequent spherical. The contestant with essentially the most factors on the finish of spherical two strikes on to the Ultimate Pursuit spherical and has an opportunity to win $20,000.
Airing on Thursday nights, the primary season of Trivial Pursuit averaged a 0.06 score within the 18-49 demographic and 386,000 viewers (contains DVR playback by means of 3:00 AM).
The community has additionally renewed the Scrabble collection for a second season of 30 episodes, however is changing government producer Raven-Symoné as host.
“We’re excited to proceed rising household recreation night time on The CW by bringing a supersized order of 30 new episodes of each Trivial Pursuit and Scrabble to the community subsequent yr,” stated Heather Olander, Head of Unscripted Programming, The CW Community. “The one and solely LeVar Burton is again as host for Trivial Pursuit, and we welcome famous person comic Craig Ferguson to The CW household as the brand new host of Scrabble. We’re additionally extremely grateful and fortunate that Raven-Symoné will proceed to work with us as government producer of the collection.”
What do you assume? Have you ever loved the newest Trivial Pursuit TV collection? Are you glad this recreation present has been renewed for a second season on The CW?