For Palmer, Password is 'Emmy' <ding>

[Mark Jeffries]

Keke Palmer has become the third woman in Emmys history to win the award for hosting a game show for her gig on the Jimmy Fallon-produced reboot of "Password" on NBC, interestingly enough 48 years after the last time a host of the franchise was nominated (that would be original host Allen Ludden, who also won at the tail end of the show's ABC run)--the previous women were Meredith Vieira in 2005 and 2009 for "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" (with five other nominations over the years) and Betty White in 1983 for "Just Men!" (she was nominated the next year for this show but was beaten by Bob Barker for "The Price is Right"):

https://deadline.com/2024/01/keke-palmer-emmys-game-show-host-1235698124/

Other women nominated over the years:  Susan Stafford ("Wheel of Fortune" with Chuck Woolery in 1978), Vicki Lawrence (the NBC daytime "Win, Lose or Draw" in 1988 and 1989), Nancy Pimental ("Win Ben Stein's Money" with Stein in 2002--she replaced Jimmy Kimmel), Carnie Wilson (Game Show Network's "Newlywed Game" reboot in 2010),  Brooke Burns (GSN's first U.S. version of "The Chase" in 2016), Leah Remini (GSN's "People Puzzler" in 2022, which is now in syndication) and this year, Mayim Bialik ("Jeopardy!" with Ken Jennings--and considering recent events, there's probably relief they didn't win--but "Jeopardy!" did win for best game show).

This is the first year the game show awards have been in the prime time Emmys after years in the daytime Emmys--the Creative Arts awards will be telecast in an edited form this Sunday night on FXX.