In honor of the first film’s 20th anniversary, it also skews heavily toward a knowledge of the films. To that end, more than half of the trivia is multiple-choice questions, with on-screen options for anyone to toss out a guess. Once they began mining every nook and cranny of the franchise, their four-episode trivia extravaganza began to take shape.Īs Ashbrook explained, while a prerequisite knowledge of the intricacies of Harry Potter is certainly welcomed when tuning in, the producers wanted the uninitiated to be able to play along.
So we quickly understood we needed harder questions.” “They’ve watched the films hundreds of times, they’ve read all the books and they've been to the theme parks.
“We did a lot, and I mean a lot, of run-throughs with Harry Potter fans, and we quickly discovered after the first one that our questions were nowhere near hard enough because the people who are fans of this franchise are truly, truly invested,” Shackleton said.
To stage the elaborate event, timed to the 20th anniversary of “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone’s” big screen premiere in November 2001, executive producers Yasmin Shackleton and Robin Ashbrook dove deep into the world of the eight beloved films only to come up for air and realize they had barely scratched the surface. But the team behind Warner Bros’ new trivia series “Harry Potter: Hogwarts Tournament of Houses” quickly learned there is no amount of magic that can stump the collective intellect and near impenetrable knowledge of the most devoted fandom in the world. In the vast Wizarding World of Harry Potter, there are plenty of spells to face any challenge, from fixing your bandaged glasses to battling your darkest demons.
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