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ABC Axes Alec Baldwin’s ‘Match Game’

The game-show revival ran for five seasons but stopped production before the pandemic—and before the host shot a cinematographer on a movie set.

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ABC has canceled its revival of Match Game, hosted by Alec Baldwin, Variety reports. The show ran for five seasons before the pandemic shut down production—and it was unclear if it would return after Baldwin accidentally shot dead a cinematographer on a movie set. But Variety says the decision to can the show had nothing to do with that tragedy and that ABC is also scrapping two other game shows.

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