The ‘Supermarket Sweep’ reboot wants to be a nostalgia trip to life before COVID-19
LA TimesIn any other year, people sprinting like maniacs through fully stocked grocery store aisles — hurriedly filling their carts with frozen turkeys and containers of baby formula — would make for an escapist TV romp. “We never even heard about what the plans were for the new version of ‘Supermarket Sweep’ was going to be like,” Mills says. Roughly four months after its intended production start date, shooting for “Supermarket Sweep” began July 31 and spanned less than two weeks — with one and a half shows completed per day of production. Television Introducing: ‘Can’t Stop Watching’ Hear interviews with TV stars in the new L.A. Times podcast ‘Can’t Stop Watching.’ With multiple iterations dating back to the 1960s, “Supermarket Sweep” is one of the country’s most well-known game shows, even spoofed by the likes of “Laverne & Shirley” in this 1979 episode. And, no, viewers won’t suddenly notice that vats of hand sanitizer, rafts of toilet paper and hard-to-find disinfectant wipes are big-money items in “Supermarket Sweep.” That isn’t the reboot viewers need right now, producers say.
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