
Keke Palmer to host NBC’s reboot of ‘Password’ game show
April 12 (UPI) — Keke Palmer will serve as the host for NBC’s reboot of the vintage video game exhibit Password, the community announced Tuesday. Jimmy Fallon will executive generate the updated eight-episode video game present, which is slated for a summer premiere. Fallon has highlighted the match as a section on The Tonight Demonstrate and Late Night in modern a long time.
Fallon also will play in each individual of the hour-lengthy episodes as the celeb/contestant duos compete for income prizes by guessing a magic formula password applying just one-term clues.
The very first episode of Password will be devoted to the late Betty White, who died in December at the age of 99. White has long been viewed as one of Password‘s greatest gamers.
The season will conclude with a exclusive episode featuring an all-celebrity lineup that will participate in for charity.
Password at first debuted in 1961 on CBS and ran for a lot more than 1,500 episodes in advance of shifting to ABC in 1971. The program has highlighted quite a few superstar visitors and spawned many spinoffs around the training course of its operate.
NBC revived the game present in 1979 and 1984 ahead of Fallon reintroduced it to audiences on his late-evening displays.
Palmer, the star of Jordan Peele’s impending movie Nope, has starred in collection these types of as Scream Queens and Berlin Station, as nicely as the function movie Hustlers.