RuPaul’s Drag Race star Charles will serve as host and exec producer. ITV launched a version, hosted by comedian Adil Ray, last year and has run for 90 episodes in a daytime slot. The reboot comes as the format has been gaining popularity internationally in recent years. It later was rebooted by Game Show Network from 2002-07 and again in 2011. The first version premiered in syndication in 1987 and was hosted by Ronald Reagan’s son Michael Reagan. The series, which was created by Ralph Andrews, has previously aired three versions in the U.S. Lingo screens once a day on TVNZ 1 at 9AM Monday-Friday, and on TVNZ+.'RuPaul's Drag Race' Season 14 Premiere Marks Franchise's Highest-Rated Debut Since 2018 ITV’s Lingo ITV Sit back, relax and you’ll be shouting “KNOBS” and “PLOPS” at the television in no time. It asks nothing of you other than to know at least four letters of the English alphabet, and in return will drench you in a thirty minute downpour of consonants and vowels. If you resent Wordle for only letting you play once a day, then Lingo could well be your new word crush. Both Lingos – a Ru Paul duolingo, if you will – premiere later this year. Earlier this year CBS announced Ru Paul will host a new American series of Lingo, while ITV announced the same Ru Paul will also host a primetime celebrity series in the UK. The show’s revival appears to only just be getting started. It’s this latest British version – hosted by comedian Adil Ray – that screens on TVNZ 1. Lingo returned to US screens in 2002 and ran for six seasons, and in early 2021 ITV revived the format in the UK. A short-lived British version first aired in 1988, and the format was picked up internationally throughout the 1990s and 2000s, popping up everywhere from Germany to Jordan. Lingo first appeared on TV in America during a dark time in history known as “the 1980s”. It means ‘a mistake or blunder’ (Screengrab: TVNZ+) Just ask Hong and Deborah, the Yorkshire couple who failed to guess “SOUR” in five attempts the other day, or Dawn and Simon from Gloucestershire, who in an episode soon to screen in New Zealand, offer up a classic “BONER” yet still don’t take the win. Sure, Lingo can be slow and stilted but it’s still addictive as H-E-C-K, and even though the show uses simple words, solving the puzzle isn’t always straightforward. It’s Tipping Point for nouns, the TV fix to satisfy all our Wordle cravings. After each round the team with the least money is eliminated, while the most successful team battles it out in the final round to solve a variety of four, five and – most hectic of all – six-letter words. Three teams of two compete to solve a variety of four and five-letter word puzzles, playing against the clock and earning cash for every correct guess. Like Wordle, Lingo boasts a simple but compelling concept. You may, like me, be S-H-O-O-K shook to discover Lingo, the British game show now screening weekday mornings on TVNZ 1. In a world filled with chaos and confusion, the online word game seduced us with its simple charms and a wonderful sense of achievement every time we successfully guessed “GIRTH” or “HAIRY” as the word of the day.īut what if Wordle wasn’t the alphabet’s first rodeo? What if there was a TV series that was basically Wordle: the game show, where teams competed to solve five letter words guided by a system of yellow and green squares? Hold on to your vocabularies: what if I told you this TV game show had been around since the 1980s? Wordle whipped the world into a frenzy earlier this year as millions of us became obsessed with guessing random five-letter words in six or fewer attempts. TVNZ 1’s latest game show looks awfully familiar – but it’s not what you think.
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