Savannah Guthrie to Host Wordle TV Show, Filming 30-Minute Episodes From June
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Updated · The Guardian · May 11
Savannah Guthrie to Host Wordle TV Show, Filming 30-Minute Episodes From June
15 articles · Updated · The Guardian · May 11
Savannah Guthrie, 54, will front a prime-time Wordle game show co-produced by NBCUniversal and The New York Times, with half-hour episodes set to film in Manchester in June and air in the US in 2027.
The project had been slated to shoot in March after being picked up in February, but production was paused when Guthrie took leave following her mother Nancy Guthrie’s Feb. 1 disappearance from her Arizona home.
Jimmy Fallon will produce through Electric Hot Dog, while Universal Television Alternative Studio and the Times back what the newspaper called its first prime-time entertainment program on a major broadcaster.
For the Times, the adaptation extends a diversification push around its games business, whose app includes Wordle, crosswords and Spelling Bee; the paper bought Wordle in 2022 for an undisclosed seven-figure sum.
Is the Wordle show the first step for The New York Times to become a major entertainment studio?
As Savannah Guthrie hosts a new show, why does her mother’s high-profile abduction case remain unsolved?
How can a simple five-minute game be stretched into a compelling half-hour primetime TV show?