Savannah Guthrie will host Wordle TV game show

Jimmy Fallon will produce show, which will begin filming over the summer, based on New York Times’ hit word game

Savannah Guthrie is to present a TV game show based on the New York Times’ hit word game Wordle, the newspaper announced Monday.

It will be the first new onscreen venture for the host of NBC’s Today show since her return in April after the disappearance two months earlier of her mother.