Mayim Bialik & Ken Jennings Will Keep Splitting Hosting Duties on JEOPARDY!

[AMackII]

First Season 38(except when ex-EP Mike Richards was temporarily hosting that one week) then now Season 39. Maybe The Jeopardy Aired Schedule for Mayim & Ken will be different this time around.

[James28]

I'm surprised there haven't been any changes to Jeopardy!'s opening graphics for season 39 like there has been for each season since its "Sushi Bar" set was introduced (during season 13)...

[icecream]

Originally Posted by AMackII

First Season 38(except when ex-EP Mike Richards was temporarily hosting that one week) then now Season 39. Maybe The Jeopardy Aired Schedule for Mayim & Ken will be different this time around.

It will be. Ken hosts all of the syndicated episodes for the rest of the 2022 calendar year, with Mayim hosting the Sunday primetime episodes on ABC. Then Mayim will host the syndicated version again starting in January for awhile. I have heard Ken comes back at some point, but return date in 2023 is unknown.

[Svenfan1234]

Jeopardy sucks right now and Ken Jennings even more so. I can’t believe they didn’t just end it after Alex Trebek died, but money trumps all reasoning in the entertainment industry. It goes to show they don’t care that Alex Trebek died and only miss the revenue he gave them. At least the superior episodes are streaming every day on Pluto TV. Right now it’s a sad shell of what a great game show it once was.

[Svenfan1234]

Originally Posted by Babalu

I disagree with virtually everything in this post.

Not only was Ken Jennings the best Jeopardy player ever, he was anything but an egomaniac. He was a good winner, a good loser (on the rare times he lost), and everything you'd want in a Jeopardy player.

Even though he became quite famous after his historic run, you didn't see him cash in with endless endorsements, when I'm sure advertisers were falling all over him.

There wasn't much talk about Alex Trebek retiring when Ken was on his original run, so he wasn't campaigning to replace him. Yes, Ken is a little dry, but everything else about him is a great host.

Contrast that with this hammy, annoying Bialik, who is an endless self-promoter. She never won a single game on Jeopardy and relies on woke fans screeching for a female host as her only ace in the hole. "Look at me, I'm a neuroscientist!" Really? Exactly how are you a neuroscientist when you spent your life on dopey sitcoms?

Ken Jennings gets far better ratings that Bialik but the producers have trapped themselves into the woke world and are afraid to get rid of her.

If Jeopardy does go off the air it will be because society has become more superficial and less intelligent, with hoards of illiterate gangsta rapper types making morons of themselves on stage masquerading as 'entertainment'.

Alex Trebek is the only Jeopardy host watching — ever, period.

Ken Jennings is a huge waste of time and Jeopardy is biting time until eventual cancellation — he is terrible, arrogant and downright disgusting. I can’t stand him and his constant “I-am-superior-in-every-way” approach. May his TV career die like it should in a few years and I am looking forward to him being miserable and lonely for the rest of his life.

Jeopardy should have ended when Alex Trebek died. I do not believe the stories, they would have said anything about him about any of the hosts had they made it. I will never watch Jeopardy again aside from reruns and am hoping for its failure. One more time, Ken Jennings sucks and I hate him.

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Originally Posted by Svenfan1234

Jeopardy sucks right now and Ken Jennings even more so. I can’t believe they didn’t just end it after Alex Trebek died, but money trumps all reasoning in the entertainment industry. It goes to show they don’t care that Alex Trebek died and only miss the revenue he gave them. At least the superior episodes are streaming every day on Pluto TV. Right now it’s a sad shell of what a great game show it once was.

Alex Trebek himself did not want Jeopardy! to end with his death and had kind words to say about Ken Jennings during his lifetime. He would not have accused them of being uncaring towards his death, it was a nice touch renaming the Jeopardy! stage after him. And while Alex was the most known host, he wasn't the original host either, that would be Art Fleming. Ken Jennings is NOT arrogant as a host; I would know, have watched over 100 episodes with him hosting so far and will watch many more this year. It is really sad you hate Ken that much you want him to be miserable and lonely the rest of his life. Alex Trebek did not have that kind of hate in him.

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I can’t believe they didn’t just end it after Alex Trebek died

Why would they end the show just because the host died? The show is about the game. I miss Alex, but the host was not and is not the show. Wheel of Fortune won't end when Pat and Vanna are gone either.