'Jeopardy!' fans rejoice as Ken Jennings takes over for Mayim Bialik amid writers strike: 'Don't let her back'

“Jeopardy!” champion Ray Lalonde announced last week that he would not cross the picket line to participate in this season’s “Tournament of Champions” if the ongoing Hollywood writers’ strike continues into the fall. “As a supporter of the trade union movement, a union member’s son and a proud union member myself I have informed the show’s producers that if the strike remains unresolved I will not cross a picket line to play in the tournament of champions,” Lalonde wrote in a Reddit post in the r/Jeopardy forum.The Toronto contender explained more about his decision to The Post on Monday, describing that he had heard rumblings about the show’s taping plans from “industry insiders” on Facebook.

Jeopardy! could actually be in jeopardy.

Ken Jennings may be a master at "Jeopardy!" but he’s not unbeatable when it comes to game shows. The "Jeopardy!" host appeared on this week’s episode of ABC’s "The $100,000 Pyramid," where celebrities team up with contestants to try to guess a word based on their teammate’s clues. Jennings’ team faced off against comedian and "Sex and the City" star Mario Cantone in two rounds with two different contestants and lost both times.

reposted a screenshot of an article from Fox News about Anji Nyquist, a “Jeopardy!” champion who had been named the “hottest contestant ever” by fans and recently spoke about their requests for her to join OnlyFans. The article had used a solo photo of Jennings at his hosting desk to accompany the headline — which he clearly got a kick out of.“Let me stress that I haven’t made my decision yet,” the host joked in a message on the social media platform.The Post has reached out to Jennings’ representatives for comment (and perhaps a decision).In response, some game show fans seemed to be intrigued by the potential of a Jennings’ OnlyFans page.Let me stress that I haven’t made my decision yet.

is getting skewered for failing to correctly identify William H.

Anji Nyquist won the long-running trivia show on July 5.The Minneapolis, Minnesota native recently got candid in an interview about how after her win, viewers reached out to her with wild requests.After her game show appearance, Nyquist had done a “Q & A” segment on her Instagram so her fans could get to know her better.“I did an ‘ask me anything,'” she told The Sun recently. “And there were a lot of people who asked, ‘Would you do an OnlyFans? It would be really popular.’”While she was “flattered” by the inquiry, she was a tad freaked out by the variety of weird responses.She added: “You’re gonna get some nice people, and you’re gonna get some creeps.

video posted to social media.Jennings admitted he had an interesting journey to make it to “Jeopardy!”“I had never tried out, but it was the full season, like a full year went by, and I thought my eligibility had expired,” he shared.A confused Sopher asked him to clarify, “What do you mean you never tried out?”“Well, I did try. I tried out once and about a year later, I finally got the call,” Jennings explained.

fans are fed up that some of the show’s contestants are getting some pretty “easy” questions wrong on the game show.Amid a rash of recent controversies, fans flooded Twitter this week to blast their frustration after contestants Dennis Leung, Kathy Barkey and Ittai Sopher, two-day champion, missed several questions throughout every round of the show.“Whoa! What was up with the folks on #Jeopardy tonight?” one Twitter user ranted. “For people of that caliber, those were some pretty basic questions that no one was getting…”A separate Twitter user claimed that host Ken Jennings looked “annoyed at the contestants fluffing some pretty easy questions.”Another user raged on Monday: “Holy s–t! I keep saying the Final #Jeopardy clues keep getting easier, but today’s takes the cake.

"Jeopardy!" fans are fed up that some of the show's contestants are getting some pretty "easy" questions wrong on the game show. After Wednesday night's episode, fans flooded Twitter with their frustration after contestants Dennis Leung, Kathy Barkey and Ittai Sopher, two-day champion, missed several questions throughout every round of the show.

Reddit user said regarding the show’s fate.The WGA is a labor union that represents writers for movies, television, documentaries and most forms of recorded media, who have recently been on strike to advocate for improved streaming royalties and protections against AI taking their jobs. Fellow confused “Jeopardy!” fans responded to the show’s uncertainty online.“If the strike continues into the fall TV season, there won’t be any Jeopardy! at all,” another worried fan responded in the thread.A few fans suggested that the showrunners rerun questions from old episodes, but others rejected the idea.

Jimmy Fallon has entered the Emmy race.

"Jeopardy!" fans accused Ken Jennings of tricking a contestant into betting big during Monday's episode. Alex Gordon, a medical student from New York, bet nearly all of his winnings when he found the Daily Double in the category "Stitch Incoming," a category of medical clues.

fans in the past. “Of course they make mistakes; we are human, they are human,” Foss said to a fan who asked whether or not the hosts ever mess up while reading clues, speaking during a July 3 episode of the podcast she hosts with past show champion Buzzy Cohen, “Inside Jeopardy!” “Basically, we tell our contestants to go off of the game board, so no matter what the host says, knowing that the clue copy is almost always totally correct, our contestants are asked to go off that material,” Foss continued.“So if the host says something slightly different, the contestant should go based on what the clue reads and come up with their response based on that.”On her podcast, Foss also explained that sometimes “technical issues” come up on the show which are “really not based on a host mess-up.” “It’s based on a video clue popping up and the video doesn’t play or a video clue that’s supposed to pop up, and you see the text of the video, but you don’t see the video to support it,” she said.

“Mayim Bialik’s Breakdown.” In the YouTube video uploaded last week, Bialik, 47, read a viewer’s question that asked: “What do you do when you feel useless, irrelevant and worthless, or do you not ever feel that way?”“Great question,” the “Big Bang Theory” alum responded. “I do feel that way, and it’s kind of a hard question to answer because I know from where I’m sitting, obviously, I have a platform and I get to talk to people.“I would say I am grateful I have the opportunity to be here, and I’m still a human and I often feel like what I’m doing is not what I’m supposed to be doing, or I’m not doing it well enough, or I’m not reaching enough people, or I’m not doing it right, or I look stupid,” Bialik explained.

slamming the show’s other host Mayim Bialik. “Ken Jennings is back hosting Jeopardy. All seems right in the world.

took to Twitter on Tuesday to comment on Seacrest being named the new “Wheel of Fortune” host — and mock the long, winding road “Jeopardy!” went on to find a replacement for the late Alex Trebek.(Trebek died in late 2020 after a lengthy battle with pancreatic cancer.)“Wheel of Fortune went about this all wrong,” Holzhauer tweeted sarcastically. “First you subject the contestants and viewers to an endless parade of temps who don’t prepare before hosting Then the producer in charge of the search says ‘Actually, *I* would be the perfect host’ Then ‘jk we have two hosts now.'”Jeopardy interim guest hosts included Katie Couric, Anderson Cooper, LeVar Burton, Aaron Rodgers, Dr.

highest-earning all-time “Jeopardy!” contestant, pulled back the curtain on his relationship with fellow champions Ken Jennings and James Holzhauer. “It’s both a brotherhood and it’s very competitive,” Rutter, 45, told The Post on Monday.“If the three of us are in the green room at the ‘GOAT [‘Greatest of All Time’] Tournament,’ we’re being cordial to each other.

Steve Martin lookalike, going down in the submersible was a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.” However, he was unable to undertake the journey as the trip fell on the weekend of his son’s wedding. “I was very happy to go there,” continued Buttrey.

James Holzhauer, one of the most successful contestants of all time, has an idea about why fans are getting so frustrated about the show lately: behind-the-scenes issues with the show’s crew.In a new interview with TV Insider, Holzhauer was asked about any changes he would make to the show if he could, and his answer was definitely interesting.“There has been a lot of turnover backstage, I will say,” he began. “The whole production team has turned over, so you kind of see some of the things were lost when they changed hands there.”He continued, “I think it’s still a great show, but it could use a little tweaking here and there.

"Jeopardy!" is still a game show mainstay for many viewers, but there is no denying that it has been getting a huge amount of criticism recently. James Holzhauer, one of the most successful contestants of all time, has an idea about why fans are getting so frustrated about the show lately: behind-the-scenes issues with the show's crew.