Martin Transient is growing his relationship with Disney, signing on to host a revival of the famed gamer “Match Sport.”
Produced by FremantleMedia North America, “Match Sport” centered on 4 contestants competing for $25,000 as they try to match the options of six celebrities in a sport of fill-in-the-blank. The format, which first premiered in 1962 (hosted by Gene Rayburn), has been revived various events throughout the a very long time since then.
ABC moreover ran the sooner mannequin of “Match Sport,” which was hosted by Alec Baldwin. That model debuted in 2016, and ran for five seasons (and roughly 69 episodes) sooner than being canceled in 2022. The latest season was shot sooner than the pandemic began, with 9 episodes unfold out between Would possibly 31, 2020, and Oct. 29, 2020, after which the final word two on July 21 and July 28, 2021.
Transient and Alycia Rossiter will perform as govt producers on the model new model. Transient, in spite of everything, stars on Hulu’s “Solely Murders throughout the Developing,” which continuously will get a secondary broadcast run on ABC. As a bunch, Transient helmed a daytime communicate current in 1999, and further not too way back has served as a customer host various events on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Reside!”
The highest of Baldwin’s “Match Sport” bought right here throughout the wake of his unintended capturing of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the neutral manufacturing “Rust” the sooner fall. Nevertheless the current’s wrap was not related to that incident, since “Match Sport” hadn’t been in manufacturing since 2020, earlier to the COVID-19 pandemic — and solely aired two new episodes in 2021, which had been left over from the sooner yr.
Transient is represented by WME and Brillstein Leisure.
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