TV Media Weekly
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June 17 - 23, 2017
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Sunday afternoon
"Jeopardy" — but it can be a
struggle for new ones to stand out
from the crowd.
Enter "The Wall," NBC's flashy
hit that returns Thursday, June 22.
Premiering late in the twilight
days of 2016, the trivia game
show quickly grew into a bona
fide hit, resulting in NBC issuing a
massive order for 20 more epi-
sodes after only a few weeks on
the tube.
Of course, every good game
show needs a great host, and "The
Wall" isn't lacking there. Chris
Hardwick is a man of many tal-
ents: he's a comedian, a popular
podcaster, a musician, a TV host
and a CEO. How he finds the time
to also host a popular game show
is anyone's guess, but his quick
wit, irreverent style and boyish
good looks all conspire to give him
a powerful on-screen presence.
But what is "The Wall," any-
ways? Well, the show's name is
actually pretty literal: on stage is a
massive, four-story-tall wall that
towers over Hardwick and the
show's contestants. It has pegs all
the way down its height, and at its
base are 15 slots with dollar
amounts listed on them. The con-
testants answer trivia questions,
balls are dropped from the wall's
height, and the contestants earn
(or lose!) the dollar amounts listed
on whichever slots the balls tum-
ble into.
If that sounds familiar, it's be-
cause it isn't so different from
Plinko, one of the games played in
"The Price Is Right." "The Wall,"
though, is its own unique, tower-
ing beast with its own exhilarating
energy. "The Wall" returns to
Thursday nights starting June 22,
on NBC.
Sticking around: Disney
Channel's latest hit isn't going
anywhere: "Andi Mack," which
premiered earlier this year, has re-
ceived an order for a second sea-
son, with production beginning
next month in Salt Lake City.
The teen-oriented series stars
Peyton Elizabeth Lee ("Shame-
less") as the title character, a
13-year-old girl with what seems
to be a pretty typical life: she goes
to school, she has a crush on a
cute boy (Asher Angel, "Criminal
Minds: Beyond Borders") and she
has two best friends, played by
Joshua Rush ("Mr. Peabody &
Sherman," 2014) and Sofia Wylie
("Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn").
It's when her older sister, Bex
(Lilan Bowden, "Parks and Recre-
ation"), returns home after a long
absence, though, that Andi's life
gets turned upside down. The rev-
elation that her mother (Lauren
Tom, "Pretty Little Liars") is actu-
ally her grandmother, and that her
"sister" Bex is really her mom, un-
derstandably sends shockwaves
reverberating through the young
teenager's life.
With a second season on order,
"Andi Mack" is here to stay. Pro-
duction on season 2 begins next
month.
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