#jeopardy!

[justinsentertainmentcorner]

Alex Weprin at THR:

Mike Richards, the veteran TV producer who briefly succeeded Alex Trebek as the host of the quiz show Jeopardy!, has landed a big job in conservative media. Richards has joined The Daily Wire as its next president of Daily Wire entertainment and chief content officer, leading all the entertainment operations of the conservative media company founded by Ben Shapiro. Richards joins after the exit of Jeremy Boreing, who stepped down as CEO of the company back in March, and is expected to work out of its Nashville headquarters. Caleb Robinson succeeded Boreing as CEO of the company. His hire suggests that The Daily Wire will continue its ambitions beyond politics and news commentary, though it may scale back some of the efforts Boreing championed, which included a non-figure investment into children’s programming, and big budget bets like The Pendragon Cycle. “We knew the answer was, ‘Who is Mike Richards?’ And now we can say ‘he’s an integral part of The Daily Wire’ was the question,” said Gloria Taylor, a rep for The Daily Wire. “He’s won 5 Emmy’s, produced over 4,000 hours of network programming, and run some of the most iconic shows the world has ever known. Thank you to the purple hairs. Please ‘cancel’ more creative geniuses.” Shapiro leveraged a combination of political opinionating and pop culture to build the company into one of the largest players in conservative media outside of the traditional ecosystems. Richards, of course, had a lengthy career as both a game show producer and host, including long stints at The Price Is Right and Let’s Make a Deal, before joining Sony and becoming the executive producer of Jepardy!.

Guess where disgraced former Jeopardy! host and producer Mike Richards is heading to? Right-wing propaganda outlet The Daily Wire, to serve as its president.

[thestylesindependent]

Harry was a clue on today's Jeopardy!

[multiplicityofmind]

jeopardy is BRUTAL tonight this is getting hard to watch

[americantvbracket]

[buzzfella]

my favorite thing about the jeopardy tag is that its half people (mostly the same 3 people shout out) talking about jeopardy! the awesome quiz show and the other half is some guy with their oc. its like a little treat to get to scroll past i love it so much

[justletmeon12]

Watching Jeopardy!, and hearing the presumptive ToC winner beg to be on "Um, Actually" was surprising.

[reysdriver]

Jesus fucking christ, another jeopardy clue about israel, this time treating serving in the IDF as an accomplishment

[evrythingisabeatlesreferance]

Saw this while watching Jeopardy! tonight and thought it might fit this blog

The answer is “Who is Stella McCartney?” by the way

[theb1gsellout]

okay I don’t usually post but!!! PSH clue on Jeopardy! on his birthday…at 4:44 :,) <3

[vagueeyes]

a clue about Varney the Vampyre on today's JEOPARDY!

[whatareyoureallyafraidof]

Dear Santa...

With three weeks until Christmas, here’s my list for Santa: 1. Peace on Earth, goodwill toward men (and women, and the non-binary, too). 2. A 10 percent raise in worldwide IQ. 3. A 20 percent raise in Pittsburgh-wide IQ. 4. A benefit concert performed by Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Julian Lennon, and Dhani Harrison. And, Dave Grohl, too. Because, why not?! 5. Alex Trebek’s (now Ken Jennings’) job on Jeopardy! (And a tennis ball gun to fire at contestants who give bonehead responses!) 6. A copy of William Shakespeare’s First Folio. 7. Someone (I'm looking at you, Kenneth Branagh!) to make a good film adaptation of Romeo and Juliet.

8. A franchise quarterback for the New York Jets.

9. A publisher for my novelette Heroes Rise Again. And, for Peter Jackson to turn it into three movies!

[thestylesindependent]

Harry was a clue on Jeopardy! today

[weaversweek]

Beat the Pack

In the cold spring of 2013, BBC1 put out Beat the Pack. It was a bit of a mess, nobody liked it. Nobody really understood it, least of all the producers, who are the one group we'd expect would understand their own programme. Game show fans hated it, host Jake Humphrey went on to do other things, and nobody ever thought about it again.

Until last autumn, when BBC2 dug the tapes out of the broom closet, blew off layers of dust, and put them on screen again.

How does this quiz look with the benefit of hindsight? Was it as confused and boring as legend would have it? Was Beat the Pack a pioneer of elements we've seen again, or was it a vestigial appendix that influenced nobody?

Time to find out.

And if that won't interest you, perhaps some brief thoughts on ITV's second series of Jeopardy! just might.

[multiplicityofmind]

Kiley would be one of my favourite teachers if I were still a little gay child

[gregorygalloway]

A re-booted Jeopardy! premiered on 10 September 1984, with Alex Trebek as host.

The game show had originally premiered in March 1964 and ran for almost 11 years. The All-New Jeopardy! (which had significant rule changes) ran for only 108 episodes between October 1978 and March 1979, before the Trebek version.

Trebek would go on to host for 36 years, outlasting more than 300 other game shows, and average 25 million viewers a week, second only behind Wheel of Fortune (which like Jeopardy! was developed by Merv Griffin).

[best-tv-theme-song]

Round 1, Group D - 8/16

Remember you're voting for the theme song, not the show as a whole!

Jeopardy!

Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?