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Guest hosts jeopardy4/28/2023 ![]() In the meantime, here are our picks for round 1 of the saga. Jeopardy! will begin a new guest hosting process soon. ![]() Still, it’s fun to look back on a simpler time when we all entertained the notion it was possible to replace Alex Trebek because clearly it’s not. Granted, some of these picks haven’t aged particularly well. So much fun in fact that we decided to rank all 16 guest host in realtime. But while Jeopardy!‘s guest hosting experiment was underway, it was certainly fun to take in. ![]() Eventually Trebek’s replacement resigned after having filmed the first five episodes for season 38. Through 41 episodes of Richards’ “The Randumb Show” podcast, the erstwhile host said some decidedly offensive and spicy things. Then there were the podcasts…oh the podcasts. Matt Amodio is the Real Jeopardy! Story Right Now By Alec Bojalad Richards maintained that he had no part in the selection process, but journalist and Jeopardy! expert Clair McNear with The Ringer confirmed that Richards was in charge of selecting the episodes to send to focus groups for each host including himself. Executive producer Mike Richards ultimately won the top job (with Mayim Bialik getting some primetime Jeopardy! gigs as well), which immediately called into question how fair the competition was. For, as we all know now, the open tryout seemed to be a little more close-ended than viewers were initially led to believe. This was, in part, to pay tribute to Trebek’s genius but also to audition his replacement…or so they said. Following Trebek’s death from pancreatic cancer in November 2020, Jeopardy!’s producers realized there was no point in replacing the TV giant with only one host. That’s why they ultimately decided to go with a roster of multiple guest hosts for the show’s 37th season. As the host and quiz master of Jeopardy! for 37 years, the Canadian entertainer was the perfect combination of studious, professional, and playful. I can’t even really imagine what it’s going to be like.”Īlex Trebek was about as irreplaceable as a TV personality can be. That’s one of the terrible things about it. When Jeopardy! GOAT contestant Brad Rutter spoke to Den of Geek earlier this year, he shared his opinion that there is only one perfect Jeopardy! host to replace the departed Alex Trebek.
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