

A game show adaptation of Candy Crush, the addictive mobile game hit, is coming to TV - with Mario Lopez as host.

Expect breezy, energetic fun from the CBS series which debuts in the US this Sunday, said executive producer Matt Kunitz, whose credits include Wipeout and Fear Factor.

Nearly 200 billion game rounds were played in the Candy Crush Saga last year, according to its maker - and to entice people to watch it on TV, Candy Crush' supersizes the visuals and the action. Two specially designed video walls, each made up of 55 monitors and measuring more than 20-by-25 feet, require contestants to physically scramble as they compete for the weekly $137,000 prize.

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One wall is placed horizontally on the stage floor, the other is perpendicular to it, and players in safety harnesses scoot across and up and down the screens. They make candy matches by, natch, swiping squares a la the mobile game.

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When the show was pitched to the network, Kunitz said, they asked CBS executives to imagine "if you were playing on your phone and got sucked through and were in a Candy Crush arena". The wall surfaces needed to withstand running, jumping and sliding and respond only to the swipe of contestants' hands.

The game's simplicity "actually translates very well" to TV, said Sebastian Knutsson, a King executive who helped develop Candy Crush - and the audience's perspective allows them to see opportunities more readily than the contestants who are so close to the oversized boards.

"It's been very important to us that this stay true to the core of how you play the game, and that it wouldn't break what we think of as the core rules of Candy Crush," Knutsson.

"I wanted to make it bigger and more spectacular and prime-time. That's a fine balance. You don't want to mess up the brand. And it is a brand, a massive brand."