Ken Jennings and Mayim Bialik to Share ‘Jeopardy!’ Hosting Duties

Television|Ken Jennings and Mayim Bialik to Share ‘Jeopardy!’ Hosting Duties

The quiz amusement “Jeopardy!” announced connected Wednesday that Ken Jennings and Mayim Bialik would proceed to stock hosting duties into 2022, putting an end, astatine slightest for now, to months of speculation and play astir who would permanently win Alex Trebek, the big of much than 36 years.

For months aft Trebek’s decease past year, producers of the crippled amusement struggled to determine who would regenerate him. For weeks, they cycled done a bid of impermanent hosts, including Jennings, a erstwhile champion of the amusement who won a grounds 74 consecutive games, and Bialik, an histrion known for her roles successful the sitcoms “The Big Bang Theory” and “Blossom.”

Other impermanent hosts included well-known tv personalities specified arsenic Anderson Cooper, Katie Couric and LeVar Burton.

On Aug. 11, Sony announced that it had named Mike Richards, an enforcement shaper connected the show, arsenic the imperishable big of “Jeopardy!” At the time, Bialik was besides named arsenic the big of primetime specials and spinoff series.

But connected Aug. 20, Richards abruptly quit the hosting job, aft a study by The Ringer revealed violative and sexist comments helium had made connected a podcast respective years ago, the latest successful a series of scandals that affected his little tenure.

In his place, Bialik and past Jennings became impermanent hosts of the regular program, splitting duties done the extremity of 2021.

Both Jennings and Bialik person faced disapproval for past remarks. Jennings apologized past twelvemonth implicit insensitive tweets helium made, including astir radical who usage wheelchairs. Bialik has drawn contention over respective issues, including a “brain wellness supplement” she endorsed for a institution that faced a suit accusing it of mendacious advertising, and for penning successful a 2012 publication astir making an “informed determination not to vaccinate our children.”

She clarified past twelvemonth that her children would beryllium vaccinated against the coronavirus.

In its announcement connected Wednesday, “Jeopardy!” said the enforcement shaper Michael Davies would stay successful that role. Davies, a seasoned game-show shaper who developed the archetypal American mentation of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?”, had replaced Richards arsenic an enforcement shaper astatine “Jeopardy!” and “Wheel of Fortune.”