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Mayim Bialik Out as Jeopardy Host

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Sony has let Bialik go:

apnews.com

Mayim Bialik says she's out as a host of TV quiz show 'Jeopardy!'

“The Big Bang Theory” actor posted that she was leaving "Jeopardy!" on Instagram. Former show champion Ken Jennings hosted season 40 by himself.
apnews.com apnews.com

Here’s a more detailed article from Variety:

variety.com

Mayim Bialik Won’t Return as ‘Jeopardy!’ Host

The "Jeopardy!" host, who stepped in on the game show along with Ken Jennings after the death of Alex Trebek, will not return next year.
variety.com variety.com
 
There'll be backlash, but this was the correct decision. She never was quick or spontaneous enough to be the host of a fast-paced quiz show. Her agonizing delays between correct answer and confirmation that the answer was correct never got any shorter, giving the impression that she either had personal doubts that the answer was correct and was surprised when she was told it was. Not good at all. If Ken Jennings had not adapted so quickly to the host role, Bialik might have had a shot. Jennings, despite a few gaffes involving perceived insensitivity or excessive glibness, turned out to be a natural for the job. Bialik's goose was cooked. She was losing viewers during her hosting stints, and misogyny was not, IMO, the primary reason.
 
PTBoardOp93 said:
You left one ingredient in cooked goose out: her refusal to cross the SAG picket line.

After Ken hosted a whole season and Ken did well enough, there was no reason to revert to rotating hosts.
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I agree with most of this. Given the show was being pelted with complaints about how Bialik handled questions, and then her refusal to cross the picket line, I think even Bialik knew once the strike was over that she wouldn't return.
But she's so wealthy from Big Bang residuals, that she doesn't have to work another day in her life. Neither does her kids.
I think hosting Jeopardy! was more of a nerd prestige thing than the need to make a living.
 
Kelly A said:
I agree with most of this. Given the show was being pelted with complaints about how Bialik handled questions, and then her refusal to cross the picket line, I think even Bialik knew once the strike was over that she wouldn't return.
But she's so wealthy from Big Bang residuals, that she doesn't have to work another day in her life. Neither does her kids.
I think hosting Jeopardy! was more of a nerd prestige thing than the need to make a living.
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Mayim holds a doctorate in (IIRC) neuroscience. And as you wrote, she's now independently wealthy from BBT per-episode acting fees and syndication. So she can easily afford to return to school, bring her educational credentials back up to state-of-the-art, and go to work in that field. She doesn't even need to wear a lab coat and sit at a lab table, she could become a high-profile executive and/or a spokeswoman for a major corporation. Or become associated with a major university like USC, UCLA, NYU, whomever. She doesn't need Jeopardy. Or silly sitcoms like Call Me Kat ever again.
 
I knew that Mayim was out when she wouldn't across the picket line for the writers strike. Ken is a good host they should've named him as the new host when Alex died in my opinion.
 
Megatron said:
I knew that Mayim was out when she wouldn't across the picket line for the writers strike. Ken is a good host they should've named him as the new host when Alex died in my opinion.
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Jennings was already under contract with another game show. That needed to expire before he was available for Jeopardy!
 
NoDakObserver said:
Jeopardy existed before Alex Trebek, it should still exist after him.
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The problem is that networks and syndicators tend to over-do it when it comes to popular game shows. For example; during the writers and actors strikes, TPIR was running prime time 'TPIR at Night'. Same with 'Celebrity Wheel of Fortune at night'. And Jeopardy! has added all sorts of new 'second chance', 'celebrity', 'revenge' and other twists to double up the number of shows for primetime. It reminds me of the success of 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire' back in early 2000's. They took a wildly popular prime-time game show and cranked out so many different variants and times that they completely burned the show out.
 
Kelly A said:
The problem is that networks and syndicators tend to over-do it when it comes to popular game shows.
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Somewhat agree with this. ABC did probably kill Millionaire from overexposure and NBC probably did same with Weakest Link among others. Running a game show in primetime more than once a week is probably not a good idea.

But remember TPIR and Match Game both had nighttime syndicated episodes running concurrently with daily daytime episodes in the past.
 
Larry said:
Somewhat agree with this. ABC did probably kill Millionaire from overexposure and NBC probably did same with Weakest Link among others. Running a game show in primetime more than once a week is probably not a good idea.

But remember TPIR and Match Game both had nighttime syndicated episodes running concurrently with daily daytime episodes in the past.
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CBS has been running The Price Is Right nighttime episodes for the last few weeks, but only a certain day of each week.
 
radiofan2023 said:
CBS has been running The Price Is Right nighttime episodes for the last few weeks, but only a certain day of each week.
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Indeed, and it's nothing new. The quantity increased a bit with the strike, but it's an existing concept that dates way back and has hardly been overdone Celebrity Wheel and Celebrity Jeopardy are once-weekly shows and both pre-date the strike. In the fall of 2-2022, they were Sunday night filler until American Idol was ready, this season the only difference is they were used to plug holes on different nights, while Wonderful World of Disney filled the Sunday gap. Likewise, not overdone.

For the syndicated/daily Jeopardy, there also has not been any increase in the number of shows. It's easy to argue the executive producer overdid it with the number of tournament games as a way to produce new content, but in totality, there is no difference to the number of programs.
 
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