MGM Television\u00a0and\u00a0Zynga\u00a0are partnering to develop a new television game show based on \u201cWords With Friends,\u201d the companies announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Since launching in 2009, \u201cWords With Friends\u201d has been installed more than 200 million times and is one of the App Store\u2019s Top 10 free games of all time. An estimated 55 million Words With Friends matches are played around the world at any given moment and more than 75 million words are played every day.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe interactive social experience of \u2018Words With Friends\u2019 makes it the perfect mobile game for us to bring to prime time, following our success with Beat Shazam on Fox,\u201d said Barry Poznick, president of unscripted television for MGM. \u201cPlaying \u2018Words\u2019 is a daily ritual for some of the biggest names in Hollywood and we\u2019ve created the perfect format to capture their competitiveness and creative wordplay.\u201d<\/p>\n
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MGM Television, which is headed by Mark Burnett, currently has unscripted series on all four major TV networks, including \u201cSurvivor\u201d for CBS, \u201cThe Voice\u201d for NBC, \u201cShark Tank\u201d on ABC, \u201cBeat Shazam\u201d on Fox, and \u201cSteve Harvey\u2019s Funderdome\u201d on ABC.<\/p>\n
\u201cOver the past eight years, \u2018Words With Friends\u2019 has proven to be a place where millions of people connect with their friends and family from around the world every day,\u201d said Bernard Kim, president of publishing for Zynga. \u201cWe\u2019re proud to partner with MGM, an industry leader in creating innovative and engaging programming, to extend the iconic gameplay and rich social experience of Words With Friends, and our broader collection of With Friends games, to new mainstream entertainment mediums.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Source: Variety<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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