ABC has announced some panelists for their new version of Match Game, which premieres June 26 and features Alec Baldwin in the hosting spot once filled by Gene Rayburn.
Here’s a press release with the details:
GET READY FOR _____ AND _____ TO JOIN THE ALL-STAR LINEUP THIS SEASON, ON ABC’S ‘MATCH GAME’
Alec Baldwin Hosts
It’s bawdy, irreverent and a whole lot of fun. The iconic panel game show “Match Game” returns to primetime, beginning on SUNDAY, JUNE 26 (10:00-11:00 p.m. EDT), hosted by Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning actor Alec Baldwin. Produced by FremantleMedia North America (FMNA), “Match Game” will feature four contestants each week as they attempt to match the answers of six celebrities in a game of fill-in the missing blank. From quick-witted comedians to a multi-talented designer, to stars of stage and screen, the stellar lineup of panelists includes Golden Globe, Emmy, Tony and Grammy Award-winning entertainers, who are sure to make for an unpredictable_______.
Celebrity Panelists Include:
Adam Goldberg (“The Jim Gaffigan Show”)
Ana Gasteyer (“Lady Dynamite,” “Saturday Night Live” alum)
Bobby Moynihan (“Saturday Night Live’)
D.L. Hughley (Comedian/Author)
Debra Messing (ABC’s “Dirty Dancing,” “Mysteries of Laura,” “Will & Grace”)
Edie Falco (Multi-Emmy Award Winner)
Horatio Sanz (“Great News,” “Saturday Night Live” alum)
Isaac Mizrahi (Designer and Television Personality)
J.B. Smoove (“Barbershop: The Next Cut,” “Curb Your Enthusiasm”)
Jenna Fischer (“The Office”)
Rosie O’Donnell (Multi Emmy Award-Winning Entertainer)
Sherri Shepherd (Actress, Emmy Award-Winning Talk Show Host, Host “Match Made in Heaven”)
Sutton Foster (“Younger”; Two-Time Tony Award-Winner)
Tituss Burgess (“Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”)
Additional names to be announced.
Executive producers include Alec Baldwin, FMNA’s Jennifer Mullin and Scott St. John. The 10-episode series will air 10:00-11:00 p.m. EDT as part of ABC’s Sunday Fun & Games block, alongside “Celebrity Family Feud,” with Steve Harvey, and “The 100,000 Pyramid,” with Michael Strahan, on the ABC Television Network.
