Hungry Hungry Hippos TV Show

To fill in the gaps created by the writer’s strike, FOX is developing a game show based on the hit board game Hungry Hungry Hippos.

Youngsters might remember the game as the one where you tried to capture as many plastic balls with a springing plastc hippo.

However, the live version is going to be a little different. Contestants from around the world will be placed in a gladiator-type ring where extremely hungry hippos will be released. The last one standing is the winner and the losers die.

FOX said a key selling point was the fact that people might die. “That always makes for good tv.”

While hippos generally look large and lethargic, the hippopotamus is the most dangerous and aggressive of all animals. At least that’s what they told me on the Jungle Cruise ride at Disneyland.