“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,” Barry Poznick, MGM’s president of unscripted television, told THR.
Words with Friends is the latest mobile game being adapted for TV.
Words with Friends would follow in the footsteps of CBS’ take on Candy Crush as well as the app-inspired Fox series Beat Shazam, both of which premiered this summer.
It’s also known for being so addictive that Alec Baldwin got kicked off a plane in 2011 for refusing to stop playing Words with Friends.