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Ok Terrific.

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I'm not into sports, so I wouldn't really know any of the sportscasters.

Richards is still EP, but he may not be much longer if the backlash continues.

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Jennings makes sense. He was probably who they should have went with in the first place. I think he was favored by a lot of people, and given his history with the show and Alex he’s a good fit.

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Please name Joe Buck permanent host so he never calls a football game again. I actually like him on Jeopardy.

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I don’t think Buck would ever do it permanently. He and his family live in St. Louis.

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They only tape two days a week. It wouldn’t be much different than him flying out to call games. I’m sure he would make more money calling baseball and football games though.

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Wouldn't The Chase want him back? I'm not saying he can't do both, but AFAIK The Chase is a rival trivia show so I wouldn't be surprised if they want him to be exclusive to their brand.

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The Chase recently brought in 'The Beast' (the dude from the long running British version), so they currently have 4 people. I had been wondering if that was the reason they had brought in the Beast, just in case Ken moved on.

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Whoa! Just because you don't like him doesn't mean you get to foist him off on us. ;)

I just don't care for him, so I'd be really bummed out if he ended up hosting. Fortunately I don't think it will happen.

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My guess is that they brought in The Beast to attract interest from fans of the UK version. Also, since Labbett is a huge on the original show (figuratively and literally), he gives some added credibility to the US spin-off. I have to admit, as a fan of the original Chase, his addition to the US edition definitely has me more interested in seeing it.

Not sure if you knew this, but The Chase (UK) has six Chasers, so it wouldn't surprise me if the American version were trying to fill out its roster with new faces to broaden its appeal.

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My exact thoughts on Mike Richards.

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So the guy is a dick but not too much of a dick to remain as executive producer?

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Maybe this will give him time for a Beauty and the Geek revival.

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I have no doubt that the guy is an asshole and I am not shedding a tear that he isn't getting the job full time, but can we at least be honest and admit that he did a pretty good job when he did his guest hosting gig?

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Chuck Woolery is available.

Just kidding he has more baggage than Richards

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Speaking of which, this guy's available:

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He easily did a better job than Burton but people are still falling over themselves claiming he should have it. I feel bad for whoever gets announced next (they can cry into their large paychecks.)

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I read that Richards already has several episodes in the can. It's probably going to weird that he abruptly disappears and a guest host pops up.

As I mentioned in this thread before, I have a colleague who works for Jeopardy and has been there for 25+ years. Nice lady and she's filled me in on some of the hosts that were coming, but I don't feel comfortable asking her about this. She probably wouldn't want to talk about it either.

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Maybe in a years time when it's all blown over and things have settled?

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They film five in one day, so I cant image he would just do a few episodes and quit in the middle of the day.

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I never implied that. That would be absurd. Obviously he quit on a non filming day. I meant say he shot 20 episodes and then all of the sudden episode 21 is a guest host with no set up to it. That’s what I meant by abruptly disappearing.

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I doubt these 5 will ever air.

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They’ll air with a disclaimer.

This is a high stakes contest with a lot of cash on the line. They can’t just skip them.

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I wonder if they'll reedit the announcer at the beginning of his five shows from "and now your host of Jeopardy, Mike Richards" to "and now the guest host of Jeopardy, Mike Richards".

Conan O'Brien gets noted as being a permanent host of The Tonight Show, even though it was for a very short time. I wonder if history will list Richards as a regular/permanent host of Jeopardy even though it only turned out to be five episodes.

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Looks like you are both right. The episodes will air starting 9/13 and I'm sure there will be a disclaimer of some sort.

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He's still executive producer and realizes that the best thing to do is not draw attention to the situation. I'm certain they will edit the shows to announce him as a guest host and remove any comments he made about his new job. Nobody but the most out of touch Jeopardy watchers is not aware of what happened, so no reason to ever mention it on the show, Just let these few episodes exist as an anomaly.

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He really shouldn't be the executive producer any more either. I'm sure he won't be for much longer. Having him as a contender for host of the show is like having the current Miss Maryland being the executive producer of the current Miss USA pageant.

Nobody's really talked about this, but as strange as it is not to have Alex Trebek as the host of Jeopardy, it's going to also be strange not to have Johnny Gilbert be the announcer of Jeopardy. He's 97 now. At some point fairly soon, he will no longer be able to fulfill those duties and a replacement will be need for him as well.

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I like LeVar Burton but I've always been a fan of his. People who aren't fans of his have said he did good hosting the show but not as good as Jennings. I think they need to pick who's best - no just who's internet popular today.

And I agree that Richard should be out as executive producer. I mean they did this whole trial replacement thing and then he crowned himself the winner? I'm sure there we others involved in it all but isn't he the one mostly running the show? The whole thing just kind of stinks and I don't think Trebek would be happy with the shenanigans that have gone on.

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Richards and Bialik were probably the pre-selected new hosts, and all of these "guest hosts" were just a publicity stunt. Also, it might have seemed tacky for them to just swoop in right after Trebek's passing with a new host.

Most of the guest hosts, like Anderson Cooper and Dr. Oz, already have day jobs, and probably weren't even considering the permanent gig.

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‘Jeopardy’: Mayim Bialik to Temporarily Replace Mike Richards as Full-Time Host
https://trib.al/qC7tYr7?fbclid=IwAR3...BVAmQ9hGVubCT4

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How did it take them this long to mess up the selection? This is just comical that they still don't have a replacement host.

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Because Mike Richards had probably preselected himself to be the new host and probably made every attempt to screw up anyone else's chances. He had to let Ken Jennings guest host. I don't think there was any way around that. There was so many fan requests for Levar Burton to guest host so he really needed to allow him to guest host, but it was only done for one week, so he didn't have time to improve in his second week like the other hosts. The majority of the other guest hosts like Anderson Cooper, Robin Roberts, etc. would most likely never take the job of being the permanent host because it would be seen as more of a step down for them. So Richards really never had much competition for the job other than Jennings or Burton.

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The idea that Richards is some mastermind controlling everything and sabotaging others seems a bit far-fetched. I mean people pushing that theory seem to want to claim Richards has all this power to control virtually every detail of everything and yet somehow also has no power that he needs to result to petty tactics to "win". And the pro-Burton crowd wants to push the idea he "only" got one week, clinging to the idea somehow Burton would have improved lightyears in the whole day between tapings.

I maintain the guest hosts really weren't about tryouts. It was a publicity stunt that also bought time to name a formal replacement. And really, Richards did a pretty good job. It's just he has all this baggage that no one seemed to bother to look into.

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It was being marketed as a try out for a permanent host by Jeopardy in many of the articles when all of this first started. If you're involved in a process that involves choosing someone for a job and you're one of the persons that's also in the pool of applicants, than it just comes off as a conflict of interest. He is the executive producer so he has influence on who is chosen and can work to have things set up to his advantage.

Weather Burton would have improved with a second week is up to debate, but we'll never really know the answer to that since he never got the chance. If you have a group of people taking a test and all but one can retake the test at least one more time, than that one person has a disadvantage that the others don't.

In any event, Mike Richards comes off as a slimy, unethical corporate exec type person and who would want to watch someone like that on this show Monday to Friday?

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Bialik was picked as the full time replacement but opted out of full time duties. Aaron Rodgers obviously has other commitments, as did most of the hosts on there. Burton had a middling first week when compared with the other first weeks.

In the end, it was going to be Richards or Jennings if she had said no. He was fine as host of the show which in general weighs out the rest of the stuff that people seem to think more people care about than actually do. The daytime edition caters to an older demo who care more about line delivery and lack of political stance.

This is a show that draws upwards of 10 million an episode with a median age of 65+ and maybe 14% of that is in the key 18 to 49 demo. Their audience largely does not care about the internet bullshit about it.

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Is this correct? I hadn’t read that.

And in the extensive The Ringer article, it says that Richards manipulated the focus group so that he would appear the best, deciding which episodes the focus group would see from every candidate, That’s a huge conflict of interest on his part, especially considering as the article pointed out, that it was a widely known secret that he desperately wanted to host the show.

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I thought Richards was a good host. It went from "who is this bland white guy" to "he's actually pretty good" by the end of his time. However the whole thing comes off as sketchy no matter how you slice it. Name him the replacement right out front and it would be fine, but holding "auditions" and him having a say in those auditions doesn't come off well.