Jon Hamm to Guest in Series Premiere of ‘Password’ (TV News Roundup)
01.07.2022 - 00:07
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Jon Hamm will be featured as the celebrity guest in the premiere of game show revival “Password,” NBC has announced. Based on the original show, which ran from 1961 to 1975 (and has been revived in several forms since then), “Password” pits two teams compete against each other as they solve word puzzles using one-word clues. The team that solves for the password ultimately takes home $25,000.
Each team consists of a contestant and a celebrity player, with executive producer Jimmy Fallon leading one team and a rotating guest leading the other. The series premiere will see Fallon compete against Hamm in an episode dedicated to Betty White, a frequent player on the original “Password” and the wife of the show’s original host Allen Ludden. In addition to Hamm, Yvette Nicole Brown, Tony Hale, Chelsea Handler, Heidi Klum, Joel McHale, Chrissy Metz, Martin Short, J.B.
Smoove and Meghan Trainor have been confirmed as future celebrity guests for the show’s first season. As previously announced, Keke Palmer serves as the show’s host. “Password” is produced by Fremantle in association with Universal Television Alternative Studio and Electric Hot Dog.
Fallon executive produces with showrunner John Quinn and Jim Juvonen. The one-hour game show will receive a special two-night premiere Aug. 9 and Aug.
10. NBC also unveiled a first look trailer for the revival; watch below. Also in today’s TV news: “Lost Ollie,” a hybrid live-action and animation limited series, will premiere on Netflix Aug.
24, the streamer announced Thursday. Created by Shannon Tindle and based on the children’s book “Ollie’s Odyssey” by William Joyce, the series focuses on a lost toy who searches the countryside to reunite with his owner. Jonathan Groff, Mary J.
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