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Here are your celebrity panelists for the 2016 reboot of Match Game on ABC

Match Game finally is back. The 2016 version, premiering Sunday June 26, 2016, on ABC, began taping new episodes in America for the first time since BLANK (real answer: since 1999, or this century!) yesterday in New York City, so we now know at least six of the celebrities who’ll join host Alec Baldwin in the game-show fun.

As you can see in this photo from the set, one of the night’s two rows of celebs will feature Horatio Sanz, Rosie O’Donnell and Isaac Mizrahi.

ABC and FremantleMedia North America, who’s producing the Match Game reboot, also announced a slew of other famous people who’ll be providing funny fill-in-the-blank answers that contestants will try to match over 10 hourlong episodes this summer.

The celebrity panelists for 2016 include:

  • Tituss Burgess
  • Edie Falco
  • Jenna Fischer
  • Sutton Foster
  • Ana Gasteyer
  • Adam Goldberg
  • D.L. Hughley
  • Debra Messing
  • Mizrahi
  • Bobby Moynihan
  • O’Donnell
  • Sanz
  • Sherri Shepherd
  • J.B. Smoove

Other celebrity names may and will be added in upcoming episodes.

The 10-episode series will air at 10 p.m. ET/PT as part of ABC’s Sunday Fun & Games block, alongside Celebrity Family Feud with Steve Harvey and The $100,000 Pyramid with Michael Strahan.

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