The podium rotate will probably be gone with the new gameplay. It would have been sweet, though.
I believe a pilot was shot a bit ago, but I could be horribly wrong. I do know they've done lots of runthroughs within the past few weeks and they are supposed to be taping in beginning/mid July. Online casting began a bit ago on YouTube and LetsDoCrosswords.com, and we're hopefully going to be doing some in-person auditions in various locations around the country. More information should be released soon. Temptation, to my best knowledge, taped a pilot a long time ago.
