Waco's Red C TV produces game show
By Carl Hoover Tribune-Herald entertainment editor
Waco’s Red C Television, the folks behind the action series “The Unjust” and “Cowboy & Lucky,” add a new genre to their production resume beginning Sunday with the debut of the half-hour game show “Living Room Wars” at 10 p.m. on Fox network affiliate KWKT-TV, Channel 44.
Red C executive producer Chris Cox, who shares production and creative duties at Red C Television with executive producer and director Russell Clay, serves as host and referee in the new show. He said that though he and Clay had created action, horror and music offerings, plus an online talk show, “Living Room Wars” was new territory.
“We have never done a game show, but we needed something we could do quickly,” he explained. “We took our favorite home games and picked the best parts.” Red C Television shot the initial 13 episodes of “Living Room Wars” in just three days, he added.
The game show pits three men against three women in a four-round format, staged in, yes, a living room. Teams answer questions about the opposing gender in the first round, play charades in the second and “reverse Taboo” in the third. The latter is a word-guessing game like the board game Taboo, but the “Living Room Wars” version lets players use otherwise forbidden words and is played fast, as a lightning round, Cox said.
The team leading after the three rounds gets to tackle a final puzzle round, though the host said he’s had to give puzzle-solving hints in each episode. Each episode is self-contained, with no additional levels matching winning teams from different episodes, and the only prizes, in the first season at least, are the fun of defeating the other team.
Cox said 12 episodes of “Living Room Wars” will air in the Sunday night slot, with Red C Television’s “Hacker Golf Challenge” series following. In January, the action series “Cowboy & Lucky,” turned into a 2009 feature film with the same title, will start, with higher-quality video and audio than that seen online. KWKT Station Manager Duane Sartor could not be reached for comment on Thursday.
Cox said the deal with KWKT means Red C Television will focus largely on video production and television rather than film-making. “It’s where we belong . . . You’re probably not going to see a movie from us for a while,” he said.
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