Movies like Paul Newman’s The Hustler, McQueen’s The Cincinnati Kid, Redford and Newman’s The Sting, De Nero’s Casino and of course Cruise and Hoffman’s Rainman are the definitive gambling movies, the Thomas Crown Affair is infamous for its sexual dalliances over the Chess Board, yet no one has yet taken backgammon onto the silver screen? Why?
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It has been around longer than poker and is played across the continents, but still the movies ignore its appeal. Fortunately that is not true of television who sees backgammon as the latest product to enter the television gaming entertainment arena.
This Fall a 4 hour series starts featuring The World Backgammon Championships in Monte Carlo just one of a series of features aimed at putting backgammon into the spotlight. ‘High Stakes Backgammon’ will be shown during October and November on Pokerzone in the UK, Germany, and Denmark.
Worldwide distribution will follow with TVF International one of the world’s largest distributors of factual programming.
Backgammon is more sophisticated and intelligent than most other games, is visually a fascinating one to one experience between player and spectator. Coverage by television makes an event immense look at what has happened to Poker since it entered the small screen.
On its own backgammon is a great game when allied to a television production showing the intricacies in strategy and the players who revel in the spirit that backgammon purveys, the game becomes almost hypnotic.
This is what television hopes to capture and if the success of online backgammon server www.play65.com is anything to goon how it has created superior brand awareness for its online service then television can start looking at increasing its advertising rates.
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