Pac-Man Reality Show Will Probably Be Funny in Two-Minute Bursts

You’ve heard the song. You might’ve eaten the breakfast cereal. Now all you’ve got to do is get onto the Pac-Man reality TV show, which is apparently in development. “The idea we have is to take what Pac-Man is and bring it to life, to bring what is essentially the world’s biggest game of tag to television,” said Roy Bank, president of Merv Griffin Entertainment, which is teaming up with Namco Bandai Games on the production. Bank describes the concept as a “big, crazy Wipeout-type event with a lot of energy.”

Pac-Man has been done in the real world before. The large-scale game Pac-Manhattan (pictured) had players chasing each other around New York City’s Washington Square Park. And then there was this awesome video of Pac-Man getting chased through the University of Michigan campus. A full-blown game show, I imagine, will be amusing on occasion but repetitive by today’s standards — kind of like the game. No broadcast networks are on board yet. [via Deadline Hollywood, image]