Merv Griffin is developing a reality series based on Pac Man. Why, gods why?

We already know that Hollywood ran out of ideas a long time ago, but it looks like that television is starting to scrape the bottom of the barrel as well. Merv Griffin apparently announced that he’s developing a reality show somehow based on Pac Man. Maybe this means that the reality show is in its quivering death throes. God I hope so.

In all seriousness, this is a “big, crazy Wipeout-type event” meant to “bring what is essentially the world’s biggest game of tag to television,” presumably by making a real-life Pac-Man board and then chasing people through it as they pick up cherries and bananas and the like for our amusement.

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