LeVar Burton is formally in on the sport … ‘trigger after prolonged contract negotiations he is sealed the deal on his gig with “Trivial Pursuit,” TMZ has discovered.
Community sources inform us LeVar has formally locked within the deal to host and government produce the revived model of the sport present for The CW — this after he and his staff had been in negotiations with the community since final fall.
We’re instructed LB will probably be in New York Thursday on the Nexstar/CW upfronts the place the information will develop into official to the world.
TMZ broke the story in August 2023 … LaVar and his staff had been in deep negotiations with the network. As we reported, there can be an preliminary 12-episode order for the collection.
On the time, we had been instructed the enterprise got here collectively when Hasbro — the toy firm that owns the rights to ‘TP’ — introduced LB into the combo as a possible host after he famously received snubbed by Sony execs for the “Jeopardy!” internet hosting job a couple of years in the past.
In case you did not know, “Trivial Pursuit” has gamers check their smarts by answering quite a lot of trivia questions, bearing on a number of completely different classes.
We reached out to reps for LeVar and CW … to date, no phrase again.
