Key Facts

• Savannah Guthrie, host of NBC’s Today show, will present the Wordle TV game show.
• The game show will be filmed in Manchester, England, starting in June 2024.
• Episodes will be half an hour long and air in prime time in the US in 2027.
• Jimmy Fallon’s company Electric Hot Dog is producing the show.
• The New York Times and NBCUniversal’s Universal Television Alternative Studio are co-producers.
• Wordle is a word game where players guess a five-letter word in six tries; it was created in 2021 and bought by The New York Times in 2022.
• Savannah Guthrie’s involvement was delayed due to her mother’s disappearance earlier in 2024.
• This is the first time The New York Times is producing a prime-time entertainment show on a major broadcaster.