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Yvette Nicole Brown, Tony Hale, Jon Hamm to play 'Password' on NBC

By Karen Butler   |   July 1, 2022 at 7:57 AM
Yvette Nicole Brown is set to play "Password" on NBC this summer. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI Tony Hale arrives for the 92nd annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles in 2020. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI Jon Hamm attends the photo call for "Top Gun: Maverick" at the 75th Cannes Film Festival in France on May 18. File Photo by Rune Hellestad/ UPI Keke Palmer arrives on the red carpet for The Met Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrating the opening of In America: A Lexicon of Fashion in New York City in 2021. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI Jimmy Fallon arrives on the red carpet for The Met Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrating the Costume Institute opening of "In America: An Anthology of Fashion" in New York City on May 2. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI

July 1 (UPI) -- Yvette Nicole Brown, Tony Hale, Jon Hamm, Chelsea Handler and Heidi Klum will play Password in NBC's new version of the classic game show.

Keke Palmer is hosting the hour-long program and Jimmy Fallon will be a permanent player of the game.

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Other rotating guests for upcoming episodes will include Joel McHale, Chrissy Metz, Martin Short, J.B. Smoove and Meghan Trainor, NBC announced Thursday.

The series kicks off with a two-night debut event Aug. 9-10.

"The premiere features Fallon and Hamm competing in an episode dedicated to the late Betty White, a frequent player of the game and wife of the original Password host Allen Ludden," NBC said in a press release.

"In each of the hour-long episodes, a celebrity and Fallon will pair up with contestants over two games. Players from each team guess a secret password using only one-word clues in an effort to take home up to $25,000."

The game show originally aired in 1961 and has been revived numerous times since its first run.

Fallon played the game as a segment on his NBC talk chat programs Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and The Tonight Show before bringing it back again as a show in its own right.