A true Daily Double! Mayim Bialik and Ken Jennings will continue sharing Jeopardy! hosting duties.
06.07.2022 - 20:47 / nypost.com
game show producers were forced to intervene during a show earlier this week when Bialik, 46, mistakenly said that a contestant didn’t win her points, when, in fact, the player did.The clue read: “From a Latin word for ‘to clock,’ it’s the type of care given to seriously ill patients to provide comfort without curing.”Contestant Andie Huskie then answered, “What is palliative care?” pronouncing it differently.However, he then corrected his solution to “palliative care” pronounced correctly before time ran out.But as he quickly changed his answer, the “Big Bang Theory” alum was already claiming the word was wrong.Producers chimed in while the show aired, coming in hot in the middle of a Daily Double.While another contestant was answering a different question, Bialik halted the game to announce their decision on Huskie’s behalf.She said, “We have a score change and, Andie, it affects you. The judges have reviewed your response, and you corrected your response of ‘palliative care’ before I began to rule you incorrect. We will be adding $4,000 to your score.
That puts you in the lead.”“Glad the judges overruled Mayim’s hasty “NO”. #Jeopardy,” a fan noted about the snafu on Twitter Monday.Another viewer added: “That was ridiculous.
Clearly started to correct himself before she ruled.”“Why does that keep happening. It messes up the whole game like the contestants get robbed from picking the next category and confuses the viewers at home.
I thought I was wrong screaming at the tv and those around me lol,” one person wondered. “I was scratching my head on that one.
He totally answered in time,” a confused user said.Bialik’s quick responses to contestants previously cost her brownie points with “Jeopardy!” fans. Last month,
.A true Daily Double! Mayim Bialik and Ken Jennings will continue sharing Jeopardy! hosting duties.
reports that Ken Jennings and Mayim Bialik will continue to split hosting duties after Sony Pictures Entertainment entered into long-term deals with both of the show's current leads.It was announced in September 2021 that Bialik and Jennings would host the game show through the calendar year. The news came shortly after after Mike Richards -- the show's former executive producer who was initially named as Alex Trebek's successor after the longtime host died in 2020 — stepped down as host after apologizing for making sexist comments about women in his past. In March, Bialik spoke to ET about what an honor it is to host the program in which she's «lived season to season, since I was about 13 years old.»“I think being a female is its own mark,” she explained.
These interim “Jeopardy!” hosts will continue to share hosting duties on the beloved TV game show.
exited just over a week later, one day after the show returned to production for its 38th season.His departure followed the resurfacing of a gender discrimination lawsuit from his time with “The Price is Right” and multiple misogynistic comments he made on a podcast he co-hosted in the last decade.
Variety. Jennings, meanwhile, will also stay on so that Bialik can continue to film her Fox sitcom “Call Me Kat,” according to the Daily Mail.
Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorAt last, there’s a solution to the ongoing question of which host — Mayim Bialik or Ken Jennings — will ultimately lead “Jeopardy!” The answer: Both.Sony Pictures Entertainment has entered into long-term deals that will have the two hosts continue to split duties on the popular syndicated game show, according to a person familiar with the matter, while retaining Bialik to host primetime editions of the show as well as the new “Celebrity Jeopardy!” show expected to start up at ABC. With Sony eager to boost more versions of the program, this person says, more than one host was required.
Jeopardy! has finally made a decision about the hosting situation on the trivia game show.
Jeopardy! would be sticking with its two-host formula. According to sources, Mayim Bialik and Ken Jennings are in negotiations to continue to share hosting duties on the venerable syndicated game show’s upcoming Season 39. A source for Sony Pictures TV, which produces Jeopardy! would not comment on specualtion.
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back at the helm of the game show serving as a host and he’s already stunned viewers.Jennings, 48, hosted the show Monday after several months away, with Mayim Bialik filling in for him previously.During a Double Jeopardy round, a clue for “Active Bible Verses” read: “Since no one had done this for 40 years, God told Joshua to get a knife & do this to male Israelites.”Contestant Erica Weiner-Amanchi then buzzed in and said: “What is, Circumcise?”Jennings then joked, “That is correct. A painful $2,000 for you!”The players looked shocked and seemed to cringe at the NSFW joke.However, fans were ecstatic to have Jennings back as host and laughed at his gag.“@Jeopardy @KenJennings ‘A painful $2,000 for you.’ Thank you.
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