![]() She can be more playful, teasing the contestants when none of them buzzes in on a particular clue(**). But she approaches her role as host differently, with her polished screen presence from her acting work(*) complementing her palpable Jeopardy! fandom. Mayim Bialik and Ken Jennings Are Your New 'Jeopardy!' Hosts - For Nowīialik comes across as equally happy to be there, and if she doesn’t have as broad a base of trivia knowledge, she’s plenty brilliant herself, with a doctorate in neuroscience. But they are saying the right things: When Barinholtz mentioned being a Jennings fan, Bialik said, “As we all are.” And the expansion of Jeopardy! from a single nightly show into a franchise with multiple spinoffs in the works means that the job is now arguably too big for either of them, even if Call Me Kat weren’t a factor. It’s possible they still feel this way, and would rather their colleague was not around. Jennings and Bialik are very competitive people, and during the audition period two seasons ago, both made it clear that they wanted the full-time job. For this season, the temporary arrangement has been made permanent, and now Jennings has an extra spring in his step when he also walks on stage to the sound of Gilbert calling him “the host of Jeopardy !“ After a single day of filming, Richards was out as host, and off the show altogether soon after, and soon Jennings and Bialik were splitting the on-camera job.Īs Jeopardy! went back and forth between them last season, Bialik was introduced by announcer Johnny Gilbert as “the host of Jeopardy!” while Jennings was simply “hosting Jeopardy!” This seemed to reflect reports at the time that Sony TV executives preferred to give the gig to Bialik full-time, but the scheduling demands of her Fox sitcom Call Me Kat made this impossible. And things got worse when Jeopardy! expert and The Ringer writer Claire McNear began reporting on various unsavory incidents in Richards’ history producing various game shows. Bush asked him for help picking a running mate - left a bad taste in the mouths of fans who believed a genuinely open audition had been going on. The decision - the biggest inside fix since Dick Cheney chose himself to be vice-president when George W. And in the end, relatively new Jeopardy! executive producer Mike Richards chose… Mike Richards. ![]() Others, like, Robin Roberts or Joe Buck, were doing it as a something to cross off their bucket lists before returning to their day jobs. Some, like Jennings, Bialik, and LeVar Burton, were genuinely auditioning for the ongoing job. ![]() Rather than set up a new host to fail by having them directly succeed Trebek, the show devoted an entire season to guest hosts. It was, in other words, an attempt to celebrate the new Jeopardy! normal, where Jennings and Bialik take turns hosting the original show, while Bialik is behind the lectern for primetime special events like Celebrity Jeopardy!Īnd for the moment, the arrangement seems to be working very well, especially after the catastrophe that the venerable game show briefly became after the passing of the legendary Alex Trebek. Jennings actually appeared later in the episode, sort of, providing pre-recorded clues in a category about shows and actors who, like him as a Jeopardy! contestant, had long runs. As far as Bialik and Jennings as hosts, he said, “You are both my children!” Barinholtz quickly elaborated that he loved watching Jennings as a Jeopardy! superchampion. ![]() On the latest installment of Celebrity Jeopardy!, host Mayim Bialik was interviewing that night’s contestants when a potentially awkward topic came up: Actor Ike Barinholtz is a huge fan of the other current Jeopardy!host, Ken Jennings. ![]()
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