User blog:Cbcarter34/MyTV to add Match Game to the schedule; syndicated Match Game to continue as Match Game PM

Following the success of the Match Game/Hollywood Squares Hour, MyTV decided to launch a daily network version of Match Game, while in the process the syndicated Match Game gets a new branding: Match Game PM. "After seeing how successful the Match Game/Hollywood Squares Hour was for us this summer, I figured that GMA Lunch Break would need a lead-in so after discussing with the producers of ABC's Match Game, and the producers of the syndicated Match Game, we defcided to add Match Game to our schedule," MyTV CEO Briant Fontz said.

Unfortunantely, due to him also hosting The Big Surprise on DuMont, Lemarcus Carter won't be able to host MyTV's Match Game, but he will continue his hosting dues on the syndicated version, which will be rebranded as Match Game PM. Hosting MyTV's Match Game is comedian Andy Daly, who did a Match Game pilot for TBS before the network passed on it for Lopez Tonight in 2008. "I saw the pilot he did for TBS, and I figured that since Lemarcus won't be able to handle the daytime Match Game, Andy would be the perfect man for the job," Fontz continued.

To disguinshed the difference between the two, when the network's version of Match Game launches on Sept. 18, 2017, the syndicated version (whose season premiere is on Sept. 25, 2017) will be rebranded as Match Game PM, taking it's name from the syndicated weekly series that aired from 1975-81. Also, the network's version will use the same format that original version and ABC's current version, with the exception of the Star Wheel. Match Game PM will retain the Star Wheel.