Lingo (1987)

Genre

game show

Country

United States

Length

5 seasons, 46 episodes

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 8 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Contestants try to guess five-letter words starting with a given first letter. Correct guesses let them draw numbers for a bingo card to win. The show has had several host-led revivals over the years.

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What happens

Lingo is an American television game show with multiple international adaptations. Contestants compete to decode five-letter words given the first letter, similarly to Jotto. In most versions of the show, successfully guessing a word also allows contestants to draw numbers to fill in a Bingo card. Four Lingo series have aired in the United States. The first was aired in daily syndication from September 28, 1987 to March 25, 1988, and taped at the BCTV studios in the Vancouver suburb of Burnaby, British Columbia; initially hosted by Michael Reagan, series creator Ralph Andrews took over beginning in February 1988. On August 5, 2002, Game Show Network (GSN) premiered a revival of Lingo, which was hosted by Chuck Woolery and ran for six seasons through 2007. On June 6, 2011, GSN premiered a second revival hosted by comedian Bill Engvall, running for one season. On February 11, 2022, CBS announced that it had ordered a primetime revival of Lingo, with RuPaul as host and executive producer, which premiered on January 11, 2023. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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