Savannah Guthrie will host Wordle TV game show

Savannah Guthrie is to present a TV game show based on the New York Times’ hit word game Wordle, the newspaper announced Monday. It will be the first new onscreen venture for the host of NBC’s Today show since her return in April after the disappearance two months earlier of her mother. In her own reveal on the Today show, Guthrie, 54, said the project had been in the works for some time – but was delayed by her leave of absence after Nancy Guthrie vanished from her Arizona home on 1 February. The 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie has not been seen since, despite an intensive months-long investigation. Authorities believe she was probably the victim of a kidnapping. According to the Times, and a press release on Monday by NBCUniversal, Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon will produce the show through his Electric Hot Dog company. The newspaper and the TV network’s Universal Television Alternative Studio (Utas) are to act as co-producers. Half-hour episodes will be filmed in Manchester, England, beginning in June, and be aired on prime time in the US in 2027. Guthrie said she is an “avid” player of the hugely successful viral word game, created by Reddit engineer Josh Wardle in 2021, and acquired by the Times a year later for an undisclosed seven-figure sum. “We’ve been working on this for a really long time, and actually we just found out in February that we got picked up and we were supposed to shoot in March,” she told viewers on Monday, according to Hello! . …