Candy Crush (game show)
A game show based on the mobile hit Candy Crush Saga.
Candy Crush is an American television game show based on the mobile game Candy Crush Saga, developed by King. Hosted by Mario Lopez, it featured tile-matching gameplay on two 30-foot touchscreens that held the Guinness World Record for the largest touchscreens in the world. The series premiered on CBS on July 9, 2017, and was canceled after a single season of nine episodes.
Quick Facts
- Genre
- Game show
- Based on
- Candy Crush Saga
- Director
- Ron de Moraes
- Presenter
- Mario Lopez
- Narrator
- Joe Cipriano
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Seasons
- 1
Facts from the source article.
Did You Know?
- The first episode was filmed in May 2017.
- CBS greenlit the show in October 2016.
- Episode 9 aired as a special two-hour season finale.
Reception
Candy Crush received very negative critical reception, with many reviewers calling it one of the worst game shows ever made. It holds a 2.1 rating on IMDb. Nick Slatt of The Verge described it as an unmitigated train wreck banking on the popularity of its lead-in, Big Brother, and argued that watching the game was uninteresting because the enjoyment of the original game comes from playing it. Other commentators, including Andy Dehnart of reality blurred, Sarah Perez of TechCrunch, and Ana Valens of CGMagazine, agreed that the gameplay was not compelling to watch. Nick Valdez of Destructoid expressed confusion about the show's mechanics and questioned the notability of celebrity guests such as Frankie Grande, suggesting the show hurt host Mario Lopez's career.
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