At this point, we're used to ultra-popular video game franchises being licensed out as film properties, from the somewhat obvious to the seemingly nonsensical. What's much less common—outside of the syndicated children's animated cartoon realm—is a video game making the leap to become a TV show. So our "huh?" sensors perked up a little when we read this morning that the ridiculously popular Candy Crush series of mobile games is being adapted into a game show for CBS.

Lionsgate TV and game maker King Ltd. are teaming up to produce the show, which will feature "teams of two people us[ing] their wits and physical agility to compete on enormous, interactive game boards featuring next generation technology to conquer Candy Crush and be crowned the champion," according to the announcement. Lionsgate chairman Kevin Beggs described the show in a release as "an incredibly visual, physical, and fun TV program," which has us picturing something like Nickelodeon's Double Dare, but with more candy. (We can dream, can't we?)

Matt Kunitz (the producer behind Wipeout and Fear Factor) will helm the show in collaboration with King Chief Creative Officer Sebastian Knutsson, ensuring that the TV adaptation doesn't introduce candies that aren't faithful to the mobile game, we suppose. No host has been announced.

Transforming a video game into a TV game show isn't completely unprecedented. Back in 2001, ABC aired six episodes of You Don't Know Jack, with Paul "Pee-Wee Herman" Reubens hosting a general knowledge trivia game loosely based on the popular Jellyvision series. And shows like Starcade, Nick Arcade, and Video Power featured kids competing on real video games of the day back in the '80s and early '90s.

Candy Crush's slightly older and more gender-neutral player demographics should be a decent match for the CBS audience (median age in 2013: 56 years old). That said, we don't have high hopes that the Candy Crush game show will become must-see TV. What we wouldn't mind seeing is a made-for-TV version of Jackbox Party Pack games like Quiplash or Fibbage, which could easily integrate audience participation from viewers around the country. Or how about a TV version of Fruit Ninja with real swords? Make it happen, TV bigwigs!