MGM Television and Zynga Team Up to Develop New Game Show Based on the Iconic, Pop Culture Hit ‘Words With Friends’
July 19 2017 - 12:00PM
MGM Television and Zynga (Nasdaq:ZNGA), a leading social game
developer, today announced a collaboration to develop a new
television game show based on Words With Friends, the world’s most
popular mobile word game. The show will also incorporate aspects
from Zynga’s larger portfolio of With Friends word and puzzle
games.
Since launching in 2009, Words With Friends has been installed
more than 200 million times and is one of the App Store’s 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.
"The interactive social experience of Words With
Friends makes it the perfect mobile game for us to
bring to primetime, following our success
with Beat Shazam on FOX," said
Barry Poznick, President of Unscripted Television, MGM.
"Playing WORDS is a daily ritual for some
of the biggest names in Hollywood and we've created the
perfect format to capture their competitiveness and creative
wordplay.”
“Over the past eight years, Words With Friends has proven to be
a place where millions of people connect with their friends and
family from around the world every day,” said Bernard Kim,
President of Publishing, Zynga. “We're 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.”
MGM Television has a proven track record with some of the most
popular unscripted and scripted television shows on-air today. The
Words With Friends show will join a long list of successful
competition series produced by MGM Television, including the
recently premiered Beat Shazam on FOX hosted by Jamie Foxx, Steve
Harvey’s FUNDERDOME for ABC, The Voice (NBC), Survivor (CBS) and
Shark Tank (ABC). The MGM Television team is also known for
creating quality scripted series including the critically-acclaimed
and TCA-nominated series The Handmaid’s Tale (HULU), Emmy
Award-winning series Fargo (FX), the upcoming series Get Shorty
starring Chris O’Dowd and Ray Romano, Vikings for HISTORY, and the
upcoming series for AT&T AUDIENCE Network, Condor starring Max
Irons, William Hurt, Bob Balaban, Mira Sorvino and Brendan
Fraser.
About MGM TelevisionMGM Television
is a leading producer and global distributor of premium content for
television and digital platforms, with distribution rights to
original productions and a robust catalog of television episodes
and feature film titles including such premiere entertainment
franchises as James Bond, Rocky, Stargate and The Hobbit trilogy.
Current scripted and unscripted multi-platform projects include
Fargo (FX); Vikings (HISTORY); The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu); Get
Shorty (EPIX); The Voice (NBC); Survivor (CBS); Shark Tank (ABC);
Teen Wolf (MTV); Steve Harvey’s FUNDERDOME (ABC); Beat Shazam
(FOX); Signed (VH1); Lucha Underground (The El Rey Network).
Through its finance and distribution entity, Orion TV Productions,
the syndicated courtroom series Lauren Lake’s Paternity Court is
currently airing its fourth season and is in production on the new
syndicated daytime courtroom series Couples Court with The Cutlers.
MGM’s television programming regularly airs in more than 100
countries worldwide. For more information, visit www.mgm.com.
About Zynga Inc.Since its founding in
2007, Zynga's mission has been to connect the world through games.
To-date, more than 1 billion people have played Zynga's games
across Web and mobile, including FarmVille, Zynga Poker, Words With
Friends, Hit it Rich! Slots and CSR Racing. Zynga's games are
available on a number of global platforms including Apple iOS,
Google Android, Facebook and Zynga.com. The company is
headquartered in San Francisco, Calif., and has additional offices
in the U.S., Canada, Finland, U.K., Ireland and India. Learn more
about Zynga at http://blog.zynga.com or follow us on
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Contact:
MGMKristin Cotichkcotich@mgm.com (310)
449-3606
ZyngaErin Smith-Chengesmithcheng@zynga.com(650)
224-2462
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