The ratings for Crosswords aren’t that great, but it’s getting some support from a major game company. Hasbro has received the license to develop board and DVD games to the fledgling new syndicated game show. Both of which are expected to be out this coming Fall, hopefully when a second season will come out. Hasbro is getting into the game show business even more as they, as previously stated, are partnering with Denbar-Mercury (Family Feud) for the syndicated Trivial Pursuit game show currently being planned.
There should be some form of online game for Crosswords out by now, but it’s been in development longer than I think the rules for the actual show were developed. You can make your own Temptation home game by watching E! and when you can guess what is being talked about currently, reach into your pocket and give yourself $5. You probably have a larger budget than the actual show does already.
Dynamo Games has reached an agreement with Granada Ventures, the licensor of Countdown, to distribute a Countdown game for cell phones in the UK and Ireland only. Brian McNicoll, the managing director of Dynamo: “Countdown is … an institution, which is loved by millions of people of all ages
and from all walks of life. The show’s combination of word and maths
puzzles allows everyone, of every ability to to take part and makes it
the perfect programme to bring to mobile phones.” You can get it starting near the end of this month, from here.
Digital Spy is reporting that 74 year old Des O’Connor will be replacing the vacating Des Lynam as the new host of the popular Channel4 game show “Countdown”. The Sun is also reporting that he will screentest next week, having beaten very popular UK personalities, such as (in roles most known in the US) “UK Whose Line is it Anyway?” performer Stephen Fry and FOX’s “The Rich Li$t” host Eamonn Holmes. Lynam will finish taping in December, as he says the travel from his home to the studio is too much.
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