Feb 23, 2021
Konami is turning Frogger into a game show for NBC’s Peacock
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Konami is capitalizing on the Frogger brand for a new reality competition series for Peacock, NBC Universal’s streaming service. The classic arcade game will be adapted into the TV show Frogger, described as a “fierce and ridiculously fun competition” in which contestants compete in 12 themed obstacle courses.
And yes, that includes dodging “treacherous traffic.”According to a news release, Frogger contestants will also have to “leap over snapping gators and hop over hungry hippos to conquer the course.” Presumably, those wild animals will be simulated as part of a relatively safe obstacle course in the vein of Wipeout, Most Extreme Elimination Challenge, and American Ninja Warrior — in part because Peacock pitches its new game show as “ a wild, whimsical Frogger world.”
Frogger is being produced by Eureka Productions. The production company’s other shows include ABC’s Holey Moley and Netflix’s Dating Around. Thirteen hourlong episodes of Frogger have been ordered.
The original Frogger was developed by Konami and released in arcades by Sega and Gremlin in 1981. The game tasks players with guiding a family of frogs across a dangerous five-lane highway and an equally treacherous river. Frogger has spawned dozens of sequels and spinoffs over the past five decades, most recently Frogger in Toy Town for Apple Arcade from developer Q-Games.
Frogger had a short-lived TV presence in the early 1980s, thanks to Saturday Supercade, an animated series that featured Konami’s famous frog alongside Donkey Kong, Q*Bert, and Pitfall Harry. In Saturday Supercade, Frogger was a reporter at The Swamp Gazette, chasing stories and avoiding threats like alligators and traffic.
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- "The Crown" — Winner
- Lovecraft Country"
- "The Mandalorian"
- "Ozark"
- "Ratched"
- "Schitt's Creek" — Winner
- "Emily in Paris"
- "The Flight Attendant"
- "The Great"
- "Ted Lasso"
- "The Queen's Gambit" — Winner
- "Normal People"
- "Small Axe"
- "The Undoing"
- "Unorthodox"
- Emma Corrin, "The Crown" — Winner
- Olivia Coleman, "The Crown"
- Jodie Comer, "Killing Eve"
- Laura Linney, "Ozark"
- Sarah Paulson, "Ratched"
- Josh O'Connor, "The Crown" — Winner
- Jason Bateman, "Ozark"
- Bob Odenkirk, "Better Call Saul"
- Al Pacino, "Hunters"
- Matthew Rhys, "Perry Mason"
- Catherine O'Hara, "Schitt's Creek" — Winner
- Lily Collins, "Emily in Paris"
- Kaley Cuoco, "The Flight Attendant"
- Elle Fanning, "The Great"
- Jane Levy, "Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist"
- Jason Sudeikis, "Ted Lasso" — Winner
- Don Cheadle, "Black Monday"
- Nicholas Hoult, "The Great"
- Eugene Levy, "Schitt's Creek"
- Ramy Youssef, "Ramy"
- Gillian Anderson, "The Crown" — Winner
- Helena Bonham Carter, "The Crown"
- Julia Garner, "Ozark"
- Annie Murphy, "Schitt's Creek"
- Cynthia Nixon, "Ratched"
- John Boyega, "Small Axe" — Winner
- Brendan Gleeson, "The Comey Rule"
- Daniel Levy, "Schitt's Creek"
- Jim Parsons, "Hollywood"
- Donald Sutherland, "The Undoing"
- Anya Taylor-Joy, "The Queen's Gambit" — Winner
- Cate Blanchett, "Mrs. America"
- Daisy Edgar-Jones, "Normal People"
- Shira Haas, "Unorthodox"
- Nicole Kidman, "The Undoing"
- Mark Ruffalo, "I Know This Much is True" — Winner
- Bryan Cranston, "Your Honor"
- Jeff Daniels, "The Comey Rule"
- Hugh Grant, "The Undoing"
- Ethan Hawke, "The Good Lord Bird"
- "Nomadland" — Winner
- "The Father"
- "Mank"
- "Promising Young Woman"
- "The Trial of the Chicago 7"
- "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm" — Winner
- "Hamilton"
- "Music"
- "Palm Springs"
- The Prom
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- Emerald Fennell, "Promising Young Woman"
- David Fincher, "Mank"
- Regina King, "One Night in Miami..."
- Aaron Sorkin, "The Trial of the Chicago 7"
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- Viola Davis, "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom"
- Vanessa Kirby, "Pieces of a Woman"
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- Riz Ahmed, "Sound of Metal"
- Anthony Hopkins, "The Father"
- Gary Oldman, "Mank"
- Tahar Rahim, "The Mauritanian"
- Rosamund Pike, "I Care a Lot" — Winner
- Maria Bakalova, "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm"
- Kate Hudson, "Music"
- Michelle Pfeiffer, "French Exit"
- Anya Taylor-Joy, "Emma."
- Sacha Baron Cohen, "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm" — Winner
- James Corden, "The Prom"
- Lin-Manuel Miranda, "Hamilton"
- Dev Patel, "The Personal History of David Copperfield"
- Andy Samberg, "Palm Springs"
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- Glenn Close, "Hillbilly Elegy"
- Olivia Coleman, "The Father"
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- Jared Leto, "The Little Things"
- Bill Murray, "On the Rocks"
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- Sacha Baron Cohen, "The Trial of the Chicago 7"
- "Soul" — Winner
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- "Onward"
- "Over the Moon"
- "Wolfwalkers"
- "Minari" — Winner
- "La Llorna"
- "Another Round"
- "The Life Ahead"
- "Two of Us"
- Aaron Sorkin, "The Trial of the Chicago 7" — Winner
- Emerald Fennell, "Promising Young Woman"
- Jack Fincher, "Mank"
- Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller, "The Father"
- Chloé Zhao, "Nomadland"
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- "Fight for You," H.E.R., Dernst Emile II, Tiara Thomas - "Judas and the Black Messiah"
- "Hear My Voice," Daniel Pemberton, Celeste Waite - "The Trial of the Chicago 7"
- "Speak Now," Leslie Odom, Jr., Sam Ashworth - "One Night in Miami..."
- "Tigress & Tweed," Raphael Saadiq, Andra Day - "The United States Vs. Billie Holiday"
- Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste, "Soul" — Winner
- Alexander Desplat, "The Midnight Sky"
- Ludwig Göransson, "Tenet"
- James Newton Howard, "News of the World"
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Peter Martinez contributed to this report.