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New Jeopardy Host(s).

For those interested, here is the guest host schedule for the remainder of the summer. According to one article, they hoped to finalize their choice of a new permanent host sometime in late July or perhaps August:

Jeopardy! guest host schedule:​

June 28-July 9: Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN chief medical correspondent
July 12-16: George Stephanopoulos, ABC’s “Good Morning America” co-anchor
July 19-23: Robin Roberts, ABC’s “Good Morning America” co-anchor
July 26-30: LeVar Burton, actor and former host of “Reading Rainbow”
Aug. 2-6: David Faber, co-host of CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street”
Aug. 9-13: Joe Buck, Fox sportscaster
 
Seems like Twitter has been mixed to this news, basically saying "Mike who?" I'm sure they want Amy Farrah Fowler...I meant, Mayim Bialik, to become the permanent host (and I hear she was quite good in her role!) But on the other hand, Jeopardy! is not designed for a celebrity to host it. The producers are NOT looking for another Steve Harvey. It's a serious game show, not one full of jokes and sexual innuendo. So if Mike takes over, hopefully, the audience will give him a chance. I'm sure he will fit into the role. He's done game shows before, like the GSN revival of Pyramid about 9 years ago. And of course, he was the previous EP for The Price is Right with Drew Carey.
 
crainbebo said:
The producers are NOT looking for another Steve Harvey. It's a serious game show, not one full of jokes and sexual innuendo.
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I agree. This is a serious show. "Family Feud", at least the celebrity version, is well suited for Harvey, although in general I can't stand him. I don't watch his regular show with ordinary people.
 
Mike Richards was intro'ed during his multi-week run earlier this year as "guest host of Jeopardy, Executive Producer Mike Richards". I'd imagine as permanent host he'll simply be "host of Jeopardy" even if he retains the executive producer title in the credits.
 
Congratulations Mike, and I hope he does well. He has previous game show experience - the others do not. He can never replace the late and great Alex, but I hope he freshens up the game for a new generation.
 
This whole saga to choose Trebek's successor has been a bit odd throughout. There was the series of guest hosts, some of whom were stronger than others and made more sense to have guest host than others; in more recent weeks LaVar Burton seemed to go on a kind of media campaign to promote his desire to take over permanently, then you had the somewhat surprise announcement that Mike Richards, the guy charged with finding the new host had actually decided to put himself in that role permanently, many long-time fans were blindsided by the selection and the reaction of many was basically "Mike who??" Then it was announced that Mike would host the syndicated show, but Mayim would host spinoffs. Since then, things that Richards has said or done in the past have come back to haunt him on a few occasions... At some point hopefully the hype will calm down and the show can get back to giving answers in the form of a question, but who knows when that will be.
 
This is not a defense of what Mr. Richards said in the past, but my take on today's "cancel culture."
While it's true that I didn't make a habit out of saying offensive or hurtful things in my youth, at my age
there are no audio or video clips that could be held over head my now. I don't know anything about
Mr. Richards, but surely a man can grow and evolve.
A young person today would have to conduct him or herself like the fictional TV character of Alex P.
Keaton, who knew from an early age that he was destined for greatness and who would have had the
foresight to not say, do or write anything that could be used against him in his political career.
At this point, I believe one should think long and hard before attempting to advance one's career. It
might be better to stay small than try to move forward only to be "cancelled" because of the
revelation of youthful indiscretions. In fact, I don't know how most of today's teenagers will make it past the
drive-thru window at McDonald's.
 
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