Regis Philbin will host new ‘Password’ on CBS

A new version of the classic game show “Password” is coming to CBS with Regis Philbin as host and a big-money prize.

The network has ordered six episodes of “Million Dollar Password” and plans to launch the program early next year.

Allen Ludden, who died in 1981, was host of the original “Password,” which debuted as a CBS daytime show in 1961 before moving to prime time.

Later versions ran in syndication and on NBC through the 1980s with Tom Kennedy and then Bert Convy as host.

As with the original “Password,” the updated version will feature two teams, each made up of a celebrity and a contestant.

The teams will compete to guess a password revealed to the studio audience and viewers.

The team with the highest score can decide to keep its winnings or try to reach a final round with a $1 million grand prize.

Inconvenient ‘Truth’

The hit Colombian game show “Nothing But the Truth” has been canceled after a contestant won $25,000 for admitting she hired someone to kill her husband.

Tuesday was the final day for the show, in which contestants attached to a lie-detector machine answered 21 increasingly invasive questions to win up to $50,000.

A U.S version called “Moment of the Truth” is still expected to be launched on Fox in the coming months, along with spinoffs in England, Australia, Germany, Italy and Spain.

On the Colombian version, contestants confessed everything from drug smuggling to homosexual prostitution before a studio audience packed with unsuspecting loved ones.