Alec Baldwin To Host "Match Game" Revival on ABC

[JamesG]

Alec Baldwin is Reviving "Match Game" This Summer
by Liam Mathews
April 28, 2016


The '70s game show "Match Game" is coming back, with Alec Baldwin picking up the long, skinny microphone originally held by Gene Rayburn as host, Vulture reports.

The new version will air for 10 episodes this summer on Sundays at 10/9c on ABC as part of a game show block that will also include "Celebrity Family Feud" and "The $100,000 Pyramid".

"Match Game" will premiere on June 26 at 10/9c.





It will have the classic format of contestants trying to guess how the celebrity panelists answered the jokey fill-in-the-blank-questions. No celebrity guests have been confirmed, but it's probably safe to assume that frequent '70s guest Betty White will return.

Panelists back in the day often included Richard Dawson and Charles Nelson Reilly (maybe we'll see Baldwin's impression of that game show stalwart).

http://www.tvguide.com/news/match-ga...-alec-baldwin/

[Bonniegirl]

Neat!!!!

[rodwayne]

I have only one thing to say;NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

[Willbo]

Sounds like a fun night.

[mets82]

Kind of odd seeing Baldwin doing this. I would have never thought he would host a game show.

[Edward216]

I don't like Alec Baldwin at all so I won't be watching it.

Which is a shame because I really liked watching Match Game growing up. It was one of my favorite game shows.

Ed.

[JSP]

Bad choice for a game show host.

[ILuvCarolBurnett]

Originally Posted by JamesG

Alec Baldwin is Reviving "Match Game" This Summer
by Liam Mathews
April 28, 2016


The '70s game show "Match Game" is coming back, with Alec Baldwin picking up the long, skinny microphone originally held by Gene Rayburn as host, Vulture reports.

The new version will air for 10 episodes this summer on Sundays at 10/9c on ABC as part of a game show block that will also include "Celebrity Family Feud" and "The $100,000 Pyramid".

"Match Game" will premiere on June 26 at 10/9c.





It will have the classic format of contestants trying to guess how the celebrity panelists answered the jokey fill-in-the-blank-questions. No celebrity guests have been confirmed, but it's probably safe to assume that frequent '70s guest Betty White will return.

Panelists back in the day often included Richard Dawson and Charles Nelson Reilly (maybe we'll see Baldwin's impression of that game show stalwart).

http://www.tvguide.com/news/match-ga...-alec-baldwin/

I can't stomach Alec Baldwin so I won't be watching.

[Sal]

Originally Posted by ILuvCarolBurnett

I can't stomach Alec Baldwin so I won't be watching.

Steve Harvey is a lot worse! I can't stand him!



Speaking of which, I hope this version is better than the Canadian revival which began a couple of years ago on The Comedy Network. See for yourself how awful this is:

Match Game 2012 (Canada) First Episode

The rules are a little different than what you're used to so I've included them here just in case one of these ideas show up in the new US version:

How To Play

[ILuvCarolBurnett]

Originally Posted by Sal

Steve Harvey is a lot worse! I can't stand him!



Speaking of which, I hope this version is better than the Canadian revival which began a couple of years ago on The Comedy Network. See for yourself how awful this is:

Match Game 2012 (Canada) First Episode

The rules are a little different than what you're used to so I've included them here just in case one of these ideas show up in the new US version:

How To Play

I totally agree with you about Steve Harvey. He is an arrogant ***** in person, too.

[SitcomsOffline]

Originally Posted by ILuvCarolBurnett

I can't stomach Alec Baldwin so I won't be watching.

Agreed.

If one is trying to recreate the magical era we had with Gene Rayburn and the regular panelist in the 1970s, casting Alec Baldwin as the host is already starting off wrong.

[Edward216]

I'd tend to disagree. I don't know if Steve Harvey has any children but I bet if he does he's never called his own daughter a "rude thoughtless little pig" like Alec Baldwin has. For that and lots of other reasons the man is despicable.

Ed.

[TMC]

Originally Posted by Edward216

I'd tend to disagree. I don't know if Steve Harvey has any children but I bet if he does he's never called his own daughter a "rude thoughtless little pig" like Alec Baldwin has. For that and lots of other reasons the man is despicable.

Ed.

http://www.pajiba.com/celebrities_ar...me-revival.php

Alec Baldwin is no stranger to questionable and idiotic life choices. It’s been a while since we had to hear much about them, after his insanely lengthy dissertation explaining the reasons for his departure from public life, back in early 2014. Obviously, no one thought he was actually retiring from anything (and it’s not like he ever fully went away anyway), but it’s been nice to have had a relative break from, or at least slowing of his racism, his homophobia, his paparazzi punching, and his general yet persistent whiny awfulness.

It looks like our Baldwin respite is coming to an end, though, because in addition to the nine projects he has in various stages of development, it was announced today Thursday that he’ll also be acting as host on a revival of the game show Match Game.

Now, I absolutely love Match Game. I didn’t have cable as a kid, so I’m not even sure how I watched it, but there was a period of at least a year where I used to stay home sick (“sick”) as often as possible, and marathon episodes of the fill-in-the-black game show. I don’t know if it was Charles Nelson Reilly’s gigantic eyeglasses, Richard Dawson’s turtlenecks, or just a general fascination with the seemingly incomprehensible ’70s lackadaisical coolness, but I was borderline obsessed.

What I don’t love is knowing that now we’re going to have a public, loud, consistently angry and entitled Alec Baldwin back in our lives. You also have to wonder, for a man who made such a huge deal out of his departure, how does he justify playing host to a game show whose branded legacy is one of pure silliness? The show is only airing for the summer (along with revivals of $100,000 Pyramid and Celebrity Family Feud), so hopefully we won’t have to have too long of a promotional season, seeing his face and hearing his word thoughts in too many interviews. And he’s doing it for charity (his own charity, which supports the arts), which is genuinely cool. I suppose that even if I didn’t expect this “retirement” to last forever, Game Show Host is never the gig I saw this particular Baldwin taking on. At least not in a revival of a ’70s game show. Those hosts had such an air of ease and patience (maybe that was just drunkenness) mixed in with their humor. Those have never seemed to be Alec’s strong suits.

[JSP]

Game show hosts should be friendly, at least on the surface. I don't think Alec Baldwin is friendly enough to be a game show host. It's just that simple.

[opus]

At least, unlike, say, Family Feud, Match Game was loaded with sexual innuendo back in the '70s, so if the revival goes that direction, hopefully the complaints are limited.