--- title: Candy Crush: CBS Picks Up TV Show Based on Mobile Game description: CBS has greenlit an upcoming series based on Candy Crush from Lionsgate and mobile gaming company King. canonical: https://time.com/4534797/candy-crush-cbs-game-show/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-18T13:40:06.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T01:15:13.648Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Candy Crush Is Going to Be an Actual Show on Television og:description: Thanks to CBS og:url: https://time.com/4534797/candy-crush-cbs-game-show/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9a06c763f967ae4e/6988aa5de20a8703d3a92d22/candy-crush-cbs-game-show.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Activision Blizzard Acquires Candy Crush Saga Maker King Digital Entertainment For $5.9 Billion og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Candy Crush Is Going to Be an Actual Show on Television twitter:description: Thanks to CBS twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9a06c763f967ae4e/6988aa5de20a8703d3a92d22/candy-crush-cbs-game-show.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Candy Crush Is Going to Be an Actual Show on Television > Sponsored content. 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It was announced today that game maker Activision Blizzard has paid $5.9 billion to purchase King, the parent company of games like Candy Crush Saga and Bubble Witch Saga.Joe Raedle—Getty Images by [James Hibberd / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## James Hibberd / Entertainment Weekly Oct 18, 2016 1:40 PM UTC Your former mobile phone addiction is becoming a large-scale live-action CBS game show. The broadcaster has greenlit an upcoming series based on Candy Crush from Lionsgate and mobile gaming company King. “We are huge fans of Candy Crush and, like so many others, we know the ‘rush’ of advancing to the next level of the game,” said Glenn Geller, President, CBS Entertainment. “We’re excited to work with Lionsgate and King to adapt one of the world’s most popular and entertaining game franchises for television and make it available to its massive, passionate fan base who can watch and play along at home.” The show will be produced by Matt Kunitz, who previously made large-scale obstacle shows like ABC’s _Wipeout_ and NBC’s _Fear Factor_. “The Candy Crush franchise lends itself perfectly to the kind of larger-than-life, physical game shows that I love to produce and CBS is the perfect home for it,” Kunitz said. “As a Candy Crush Saga player myself, I am excited to amp up the action and visuals in our huge Candy Crush Arena.”’ Candy Crush was launched in 2012 and became a pop culture sensation, recently reaching 1 _trillion_ games played. It’s still played heavily – last month saw 18 billion game rounds played around the world, according to King. Added King’s Chief Creative Officer Sebastian Knutsson: “The _Candy Crush_ franchise has been loved by players around the world on mobile so it’s very exciting to be working with Matt and the team to bring the fun and challenge of the _Candy Crush_games to television. We hope our players will be entertained by what is set to be a high-energy, challenging game show.” There are no photos or air date yet for the series. _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/10/18/candy-crush-cbs-game-show) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://ew.com) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4534797/candy-crush-cbs-game-show/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4534797/candy-crush-cbs-game-show/"},"headline":"Candy Crush Is Going to Be an Actual Show on Television","datePublished":"2016-10-18T13:40:06.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T01:15:13.648Z","description":"Thanks to CBS","url":"https://time.com/4534797/candy-crush-cbs-game-show/","keywords":["Television","Video Games"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9a06c763f967ae4e/6988aa5de20a8703d3a92d22/candy-crush-cbs-game-show.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"James Hibberd / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9a06c763f967ae4e/6988aa5de20a8703d3a92d22/candy-crush-cbs-game-show.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Activision Blizzard Acquires Candy Crush Saga Maker King Digital Entertainment For $5.9 Billion","caption":"Activision Blizzard Acquires Candy Crush Saga Maker King Digital Entertainment For $5.9 Billion","creditText":"Joe Raedle—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4534797/candy-crush-cbs-game-show/","name":"Candy Crush Is Going to Be an Actual Show on Television"}}]}] ```