“The password is…. renewal.” (Or, “re-NEWWWWW-al,” if you want to say it as creepy as the Password revival’s off-screen announcer guy.)
NBC has (finally) ordered a second season of its revival of the classic game show Password, eight months after its solid summertime 2022 run.
The “catch” is that due to the WGA strike — and with executive producer/panelist Jimmy Fallon not wanting to cross a picket line — production on Season 2, which was originally penciled in to start soon, is for the time being postponed, Deadline reports.
Password Season 1 averaged 4.8 million total viewers and a 0.5 demo rating (with Live+7 playback factored in), ranking No. 2 in both measures among all of NBC’s summer 2022 programming (trailing only America’s Got Talent).
And in total audience, Password ranked No. 4 amongst all of last summer’s broadcast-TV fare, behind AGT and ABC’s Celebrity Family Feud and nipping at the heels of CBS’ venerable Big Brother.
TVLine readers gave the Password revival premiere an average grade of “B-,” with 75 percent planning to keep watching.
Kicking off last August with a two-night premiere, NBC’s Password update saw Fallon and a second celebrity pair up with contestants over two games each episode, with Keke Palmer serving as host. The celeb line-up for NBC’s revival featured Chelsea Handler, Heidi Klum, Martin Short, J.B. Smoove and Meghan Trainor, among others, while some of the contestants were “legacy” players from 1980s versions of Password.
This story originally appeared on TVLine
