LeVar Burton’s Deal to Host, EP CW’s ‘Trivial Pursuit’ Show Official

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 realized.

Community sources inform us LeVar has formally locked within the deal to host and govt produce the revived model of the sport present for The CW — this after he and his crew had been in negotiations with the community since final fall.

We’re informed LB might be in New York Thursday on the Nexstar/CW upfronts the place the information will turn into official to the world.

TMZ broke the story in August 2023 … LaVar and his crew had been in deep negotiations with the network. As we reported, there can be an preliminary 12-episode order for the sequence.

On the time, we had been informed the enterprise got here collectively when Hasbro — the toy firm that owns the rights to ‘TP’ — introduced LB into the combination as a possible host after he famously received snubbed by Sony execs for the “Jeopardy!” internet hosting job just a few years in the past.

In case you did not know, “Trivial Pursuit” has gamers take a look at their smarts by answering quite a lot of trivia questions, pertaining to a number of totally different classes.