Marc Berman is a New York-based reporter who covers media. Trivial Pursuit is based on the classic trivia game, where “contestants battle it out over a range of play-along question categories to ...

Ashley Byrne has been speaking to the designer of Trivial Pursuit, Michael Wurstlin, about how it was first created. Photo: The original Trivial Pursuit game. Credit: BBC.

Mondays feature the premiere of the original game show Trivial Pursuit (8:00-9:00 p.m. ET/PT) hosted by Emmy Award-winning actor, director, producer, and podcaster LeVar Burton (Roots, Star Trek ...