Posts with tag Super Password
Posted Apr 20th 2008 10:08AM by Richard Keller
Filed under: Celebrities, Game Show, Casting, Reality-Free
In an announcement that most who remember the older versions of Password would consider a no-brainer, it has been revealed that Betty White will be returning as a guest panelist on CBS' new Million Dollar Password series. And, really, if she wasn't even being considered would it even be Password?
White, who is 86-years-young, was a staple of the original version of Password when it started back in 1961 as well as the revived 70s and 80s versions of the show. Much of that connection came from her marriage to original Password host Allen Ludden. White and Ludden were married in 1963 and remained together until his death from stomach cancer in 1981.
Continue reading Betty White to appear on Million Dollar Password
Posted Oct 11th 2007 12:01PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Industry, OpEd, Game Show, Pickups and Renewals
Ah, the world of TV, where everything old is new again.
Failed sitcoms become cartoons, Adam West gets reimagined
as a doddering cartoon mayor, and every old game show is remade into a new, more sparkly version.
Now the twirling-light, ominous music treatment has reached an old favorite:
Password.
According to Variety, CBS and Fremantle Media are teaming up to produce a new version of the word-association game show, redubbing it
Million Dollar Password. And, not only will the old show will be recycled, so will an old host: Regis Philbin has been tapped to host his first prime-time game show since the ABC version of
Who Wants to be a Millionaire breathed its last a few years ago.
Continue reading Regis Philbin to host new version of Password
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