Will that guy on Jeopardy ever lose?

I went on a gameshow to finance my Transatlantic relocation. I even posted about it on ILX.

SEE?

ILXers, I need your help...A gameshow thread

What my dad might lack in speed he makes up for in loud passion and being right a lot.

NAME/SEASON/TOTAL
Tom Walsh 20 $ 184,900
Brian Weikle 19 $ 149,200
Arthur Gandolfi 20 $ 137,300
Sean Ryan 20 $ 123,797
Chris Miller 20 $ 123,597
John Beck 19 $ 117,099
Scott "Renzo" Renzoni 20 $ 112,998
Seth Alcorn 19 $ 106,400
Frank Spangenberg 6 $ 102,597
Tom Baker 20 $ 102,300

xpost you think I'm up that early?!?

Seriously though, good question. I don't know as I don't think I've paid attention while they interviewed him. I'll get back to you on it.

The story behind a season 2 winner whose episodes got pulled: https://www.theringer.com/tv/2023/5/2/23705821/jeopardy-lost-tapes-barbara-lowe-mystery-champion

Anyone watching Jeopardy! Masters? I don't like that they reveal the locations of the Daily Doubles to the audience, but I kind of like the whole rankings and leaderboard setup. And of course it's extremely entertaining.

I kinda like the DD reveal, it added some anticipation when one of the players was running down a category & everyone missed the second to last answer so they decided to try a new category, but we knew the last answer was the DD just hanging out there waiting for them to come back to it.

The best part so far is James trying so hard to be evil and Ken making fun of him for it

dat that was an interesting article! sounded v petty on the Jeopardy producers part

Is it just me, or do the questions on Masters seem more difficult than on regular Jeopardy? I find myself muttering "those prizes are rightfully mine" much less when watching Masters.

I can't imagine "Who is Steve Nieve?" ever being a question on regular Jeopardy.

The questions this week have run the gamut, but I imagine everyone who watches Jeopardy has categories they're much better at than others

seen a few stories today about mayim, who was hosting the final weeks of regular jeopardy this season, walking out on the final week of shoots in solidarity with striking writers, and ken stepping in to shoot the episodes in her place. if true, that sucks. jeopardy's a union show. i loathe her as a host, but full-on respect to her for this.

So how about James's Final Jeopardy zinger last night? All in good fun, of course, but I feel like Ken was kinda stumped on how to respond.

Ben! Tom the Deadhead & Lydia-Claire on now. Good old regular pro-union Jeopardy innnit?

So how about James's Final Jeopardy zinger last night? All in good fun, of course, but I feel like Ken was kinda stumped on how to respond.

not really enjoying how hard they're trying to turn every player into a personality in this tournament. i think part of jeopardy's charm is how the gameplay is so rigid and formulaic that only tiny bits of personality are allowed to slip through, and only in certain moments. there's a built-in mystery as to who these people are. you're always left wanting more.

i liked every one of these six players more when i knew them less.

also i find james' zingers not all that zingy. a little cringe even.

Not gonna spoil it, but tonight’s Jeopardy Masters outcome was as surprising as it was moving.

Ken is a scab

I still lament that LeVar Burton didn't work out as host

Apparently the clues were all written before the strike, and there were only a few episodes left to film. I can see why it's maybe not a good look to go forward with production, but does that count as crossing the picket line? (I genuinely don't know.)

yeah it does

ugh this clue on celeb jeop tonite:

"when she performed 'crazy for you' in the high school wrestling film 'vision quest,' this pop star was virtually unknown"

i assume these episodes were written pre-strike, but maybe the jeopardy fact checking dept already had a foot out the door? (she had the #1 album in the u.s. the week the movie was released, had recently scored her first #1 single, and was well on her way to superstardom.)

Julia Markham Cameron returns today for the Champs Wildcard Tourney for those who celebrate.

For a second I read that as Julia Margaret Cameron.

That would be an achievement.

Yet another feather in the crown of AI.

Trying to remember the James Blish story about that in all the anthologies.

I did remember it correctly, just checked, “Common Time.”

Nope, it’s a different one, with art in the title, “A Work of Art,” maybe.

Hehheh, Queens of The Stone Age uploaded Julia's new contestant interview as a Facebook Reel yesterday.

that's cool! I saw her talking about her mosh pit incident which was a nice change of pace from the boring shit usually discussed (lol who tf moshes to QOTSA but i digress)

Mayim is out

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2023/12/15/mayim-bialik-no-longer-jeopardy-host/71938407007/

She wasn’t a great fit, sad to say

she was an awkward host who never seemed comfortable running the actual game. i won't miss her. but she refused to cross the picket line last season and i'll always respect her for that. (and i'll always be suspicious of ken for not doing the same.)

I found out about this via a Jim Jarmusch post on Instagram (which he appears to have deleted). Claimed she was the best Jeopardy host of all time.

Real head scratcher, that.

Jeopardy!'s official Facebook account posted a response (which they even formatted like one of their answer screens) that explained Bialik is only out as a syndicated host, reasoning that they wanted more consistency or continuity next season, and said they hope she will be back as a prime-time special host. (Also I guess they consider the exclamation point in their show's name to be mandatory, leading to some awkward looking punctuation in their response.)

Possible Jarmusch deleted that post simply because he found out she wasn't actually out of the show altogether.

FWIW, here's the Facebook post.

Ike Barinholtz on today's Champ tourney installment

*SPOILER ALERT*

Plain vanilla Jeopardy finally returns tomorrow.

Did anybody see the bizarre quadruple correction on tonight's episode that led to Isaac going from several thousand behind to having an almost five thousand dollar lead?

Very VAR like

TOC winner seemed pretty intense to me. Kinda glad he won as I feared he might’ve melted down otherwise.

He’s a beast!

"What is 'Because of course he would...'?"

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/mike-richards-daily-wire-ceo-1236221478/

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.

...

“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.”

hell yeah, new Jeopardy eps to stream on Hulu and Peacock this fall: https://www.theverge.com/news/679056/jeopardy-wheel-of-fortune-hulu-peacock-streaming

despite having been on the show (insert link here to JAYMC ON JEOPARDY thread), I haven't actually watched the show regularly since I was in high school because it airs at 3:30 pm in Chicago

Jeopardy doing promo for cape movies and other crap is always a bummer.

I wonder if that one guy is pissed because "Suicide Squad" and "The Suicide Squad" have to recognized as separate things.

Should lose money for knowing that.

What do you think the odds are that the guy who is the greatest player in the history of Jeopardy also happens to possess the very specific (and hard-to-find) skills needed to host the show?

That's insane!

Has anyone ever written/talked about this?

So this Scott guy...

...is cute, possibly queer, and definitely killing it!

Johnny Gilbert is 97??

Yup, and he tapes his stuff at home in Arizona (IIRC), which they dub in during post.

god bless. Don Pardo had a similar arrangement, I believe -- also in Arizona.

What do you think the odds are that the guy who is the greatest player in the history of Jeopardy also happens to possess the very specific (and hard-to-find) skills needed to host the show?

That's insane!

Has anyone ever written/talked about this?

― alpine static

probably... i'm not that engaged with jeopardy fandom. it occurs to me, tho, that there might be some overlap between the very specific and hard-to-find skills needed to host the show and the very specific and hard-to-find skills needed to be a top-tier jeopardy! player...