Mayim Bialik to be first visitor host of ‘Jeopardy!’ following Mike Richards’ departure
Bialik will host the episodes which might be taped this week, sources aware of the matter informed Muricas Information Enterprise. Because the sport present usually tapes per week’s price of episodes on a single day, this implies she’s going to host three weeks of “Jeopardy!”
Sony, the present’s producer, confirmed the information after this story was first revealed, and stated that “further visitor hosts will likely be introduced” because it strikes ahead with manufacturing of the brand new season, which can premiere in mid-September.
“The studio loves Mayim however on the time of the choice for the present season, her schedule for ‘Name me Kat’ was set and he or she would not have been capable of juggle the syndicated present and her fox sitcom,” the particular person stated.
“Now that there’s some extra time to determine issues out, she has change into an actual viable alternative for Sony,” the particular person continued. “It simply is sensible to ask her to step in for a number of weeks whereas they work out subsequent steps.”
There was some hypothesis that Richards, who stays for now as government producer of “Jeopardy!,” is making choices concerning the subsequent host.
However the one who spoke to Muricas Information Enterprise on Monday stated that is not the case.
As an alternative, the particular person stated, Sony Footage Leisure chief government Tony Vinciquerra and World Tv Studios chairman Ravi Ahuja are the folks immediately concerned .
“They very a lot do not wish to undergo one other prolonged audition course of,” the particular person added.
Folks with information of the method have additionally pointed to Ken Jennings, who posted the very best rankings of all of the “Jeopardy!” visitor hosts final season, as one other contender. Jennings was stated to be a finalist the primary time round and has stayed with the present as a consulting producer.
Bialik is finest recognized for her years on the smash hit CBS sitcom “The Large Bang Idea,” the place she performed Amy. She presently performs the title character in “Name Me Kat” on Fox. Off-camera, she hosts a weekly podcast about psychological well being referred to as “Mayim Bialik’s Breakdown.”
In a press release earlier this month, about her primetime function, she stated, “I could not be extra thrilled to affix the Jeopardy! household. What began out with my 15-year-old repeating a rumor from Instagram that I ought to visitor host the present has become one of the thrilling and surreal alternatives of my life! I am so grateful and excited to proceed to work with Mike Richards, and I am simply over the moon to affix forces with him and Sony. After all of the conversations we have had about this partnership, I’m simply so able to get began!”
Claire McNear, the reporter behind the story and the creator of a latest e book concerning the “Jeopardy!” franchise, stated on Muricas Information’s “New Day” Monday that “the massive query is the place does ‘Jeopardy!’ go from right here?”
“It has been such a secure establishment on tv and in American tradition for therefore many many years,” she stated. “And immediately now, with this scandal, it appears like that has been shaken. And I believe there’s a whole lot of concern, particularly inside Sony and inside the ‘Jeopardy!’ workers, that this dependable factor won’t be what it was and it might simply change into one other sport present.”
