Why the hell is Alec Baldwin hosting the new Match Game?

He loves word games and has a big broad personality. Look, I don't like him either, but he's entertaining.

I'm not entertained. I watched about two minutes of that mess and turned it off.

He's got a young family. Probably the hours are good and he doesn't have to be away on location.

He's not so "in demand" OP.

Not a lot of roles for fat guys in their late 50s.

Awful Alec Baldwin was soooo stiff he screwed a _______.

All of the revived quiz shows suck.

Actually he's pretty hilarious and quick, but of course some here are only entertained by watching some guy with a cock in his mouth.

It was the pilot, so hopefully he will loosen up.

But I'm sure that this was suggested by his agency and mgmt. to rehab his image and to improve his Q.

Also, if you notice, the grand prize on Match Game is $25K, while it's a max of $100K on Pyramid. Where is the extra $75K going?

Titus burgess and Sutton foster are the best they can do?

It's shot in New York so they can only get B-grade celebs.

Yes. He's talented, funny and used to be super-hot, but agree with r4 that he is no longer in demand. That's showbiz. Sometimes the work even dries up for old white dudes. He lives an expensive life in NYC and I'm sure money is his primary motivation.

Isn't this the show that NeNe Leakes and Betty White were supposed to co-host?

He replaced his "pig" daughter with a new family so he needs the money.

R9 Alec Baldwin's agent, Matt Del Piano, is a hack. He has good clients like Kevin Spacey and Al Pacino. Yet, he gets them awful jobs, Spacey in the shaggy dog remake "Nine Lives" and Pacino in the Adam Sandler flick "Jack and Jill." No wonder Alec Baldwin is stuck hosting "Match Game." Anything for that 10% commission.

It's strange that they kept the original theme song and logo design

R15, maybe it is hard to get them good jobs because they are older guys.

I assumed it was because Baldwin owned a piece of the action but now that I've read R15 I don't know.

R16 That's not the original theme song. It's from the '70s reboot.

That version sucks. I'll take Gene Rayburn any day.

Who's the new Brett Somers?

Rosie O'Donnell has her chair.

Am I the only one whose surprised he's still working after calling his daughter a pig on tape and making numerous homophobic and racist remarks???? Anyone else would have been blacklisted. He's like Teflon

People are entertained by his brand of obscenity, R23. The same people who think Trump is okay probably find Alec Baldwin acceptable.

Are the celebrities really drinking or just "drinking"?

to tell the truth has been pretty good

Its nice to see Rosie look relaxed and goodnatured.

Rosie and her crazy daughter are happily reconciled once again.

Why didn't DL start a nice thread about that, after the rancid anti-Rosie threads about it last year???

Who is Brett and Charles on this version? Don't tell me fat Rosie is the modern day version of one of those two.

If anything Rosie looks TOO thin now!

Watching it now. So crass, just like all the other game show updates. Disappointing.

I hate this cunt and will never ever watch or even spend a single cent on anything he's involved in. disgusting human being.

R23 Mark Wahlberg blinded a guy in a racist attack and he has a career.

R8 Watching Alec Baldwin with Tituss Burgess' cock in his mouth might have been more entertaining, come to think of it.

I actually you used to enjoy the 70s version, loud and garish as it was, but I was in high school and Brett and Charles Nelson seemed the height of wit. This one just seemed stupid and I hated how they turned the civilian contestants into parodies of idiotic trash. Leave that to Judy Landers or Richard Dawon's trampy wife.

I'm bumping this because the older episodes are a bit before my time, but I've been obsessively watching them for months.

So am I wrong in believing they switched to the spinning wheel of panelists because everyone would choose Richard Dawson as their partner?

yes r35.

I don't give a shit about this piece of shit. I haven't watched anything he's done for many years. I am not missing anything. Needless to say, I will never pay to see a project he's involved with. I haven't watched any of his nbc shows.

Did he kill your puppy or something, R37?

The first show was horrible but ever since that very first episode, the show has been great. I think Alec does best when he has a great panel to play off of. The panel for the first episode was dreadful. I am just pissed that Betty White hasn't been on. Is it because she doesn't want to travel since the show is based in NY and she lives in California?

Betty White may be a little bit of a bawdy old lady, but this version of the show would shock her. It's very dirty just to be dirty, and not funny. Rosie O'Donnell has said on her site that she's not returning because she didn't like the questions. Not to mention, many of the contestants are total idiots. So many of them miss the most obvious answers.

Yes - Thank you R40 - The contestants are awful! I assume they would pre-screen like Jeopardy but it seems like they are just pulled off the street. There are too many bad examples to remember, but here are a few I remember:

"Bill Clinton wanted Hillary to win so he could get back in the white house because he left a ____ in the oval office"

Contestant Answer: Monica Lewinsky

So, he left her there for 20 years? (Mostly, people said cigar - but even that wasn't universal)

Another one...

"I found a message in a bottle on the beach. It said 'I am trapped on a deserted island with Scarlet Johanson. Please send ____"

Contestant Answer: Hair

HAIR! Even some people on the panel booed it, and then Alec was like "I need you to explain that answer". The guy said "she has really nice hair!"

Jason Alexander got out of his seat and went up to the contestant to give him a lecture on how to answer... that part at least was entertaining. But, about half of the answers are awful and it makes it hard to watch.

Just watching one of the episodes of last week & am outraged that the difference in the game turned on the judging for the question, "Ivan is so insecure that he won't even allow his boyfriend to be around fictional men. That's why he went to the liquor cabinet & threw out all the bottles of (blank)." The contestant hesitantly answered, "Whiskey." The audience groaned. The contestant, knowing her answer was awful, excused herself by saying, "brain farts." Not satisfied that it was a mere brain fart, Alec Baldwin had a censored reaction to her brain. The first celebrity, Kenan Thompson (after initially sympathizing with the contestant, saying "I feel that was a good answer just because you're a good person) said, "Jack Daniels," and the contestant had an "of course" reaction. Another celebrity, Constance Zimmer, chimed in, saying "Jack Daniels is a whiskey." That registered with the judge. The remaining, five eligible celebrities in this final round all had answered "Jack Daniels" so this contestant won. The winner was so bad that when she got to the money part of the game & was presented with "Go to (blank)" she didn't pick the obvious (& winning) answer, "hell," but went with "bed," another option offered her (which happened to be the 3rd place finisher (with "hell" & "school" being the top 2 answers). Ironically, earlier in that same round, the other contestant was not judged as consistently. Her question was "They finally found a way to make congressman read those 3,000 page laws they vote on. Just stick a (blank) in the middle of it." The contestant's response was "a woman." The lone, eligible celebrity she was playing with, Caroline Rhea, said "centerfold," quickly adding she was thinking of a female centerfold. That was not considered a match. Very inconsistent rulings. They really should bring back the "losing" contestant.

I went to a taping this morning. I got soaking wet waiting in the rain, probably will develop pneumonia because of the freezing cold temperature in the ABC studio, and the show itself is terrible. Vulgar and ignorant answers from both the contestants and the celebrities. The 1970s version was far superior in every way.

He has the gold digger and the 89 kids she popped out to support. If Baldwin has to do dinner theater eventually to support them so be it.