TV Trivial Pursuit planned

Press, 19 April 1986, Page 17

TV Trivial Pursuit planned

By Gillian Wainwright in London The best-selling board game Trivial Pursuit is on the way to becoming s half-hour television pro. gramme. The British broadcaster David Frost, and the pop music producer, Mike Mansfield, have joined forces to buy the tele, vision rights to the cull game. Their two companies, Paradine and M.M.E., are about to sign a contract with a British broadasting company for a series based around the

question and answer game. If it takes off it is planned to sell the series world-wide. Frost himself is expected to present the show and sophisticated computer graphics will be used, but the biggest problem, according to Mansfield, is compressing a game which can take all day to play into a halfhour format. The idea came from a hour-long documentary nearing completion which Mansfield and Frost’s companies are cb-pro-

ducing on the second Trivial Pursuit convention held in Barbados in November. The story oi the money-spinning idea is told from the beginning. Frost interviews the inventor, writer and investors who went to the convention. It is now intended that the programme will be an introduction to the proposed series.