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Arcade1Up has announced a new partnership with a gaming giant, as they've teamed with Sony Pictures Television to bring Jeopardy! to their Infinity Gaming Devices As it will be with the regular version you see on TV, this version of the game will allow up to three players to test their knowledge against each, with[...]

Back on August 1, 2022, Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune distributor Sony Pictures Television and Pluto inked a two-year licensing deal that would bring a ton of classic episodes to the streamer via dedicated FAST channels as well as an on-demand option The set-up appeared to be a success – so much so that additional[...]

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? Jeopardy! Host Alex Trebek & USPS, Prime Video's Ballard, NBC's Law & Order, FX Networks/SDCC 2024, USA Network's WWE Raw, Prime Video's Countdown, Apple TV+'s Presumed Innocent, NBA/Warner Bros Discovery, Netflix's Emily In Paris, Prime Video's The Boys, Tubi's Wynonna Earp: Vengeance, SNL/2024 Paris Olympics, Prime Video's Batman: Caped Crusader, Peacock's Homicide:[...]

The United States Postal Service had a couple of special guests on hand to celebrate their latest commemorative forever stamp honoring the late Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek, who passed in 2020 Joining the ceremony were current host Ken Jennings and Alex Trebek's widow Jean Trebek While Jeopardy! began on network TV, the syndicated version Trebek[...]

The United States Postal Service will be honoring one of TV's most beloved game show hosts, the late Alex Trebek, who hosted Jeopardy for 37 years from 1984 until his passing in November 2020 from pancreatic cancer at the age of 80 His final show aired on January 8th, 2021 The series' current host, Ken[...]

Sony revealed its criteria for its latest game show, Pop Culture Jeopardy!, a spin on the classic game Instead of three individuals competing against one another, teams of three will work together to achieve a common goal against other teams On its social media, the Prime Video game show revealed a condensed version of instructions[...]

The world of Jeopardy! is so big any opportunity for Sony to create new programming opportunities is a no-brainer The latest comes in the form of Pop Culture Jeopardy!, the streamer-exclusive game show spinoff that will premiere on Prime Video, announced during Amazon's inaugural upfront presentation in New York It comes courtesy of Sony Pictures[...]

Unfortunately for Emma Stone, she won't be the first celebrity contestant to compete in the Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions That honor goes to Celebrity Jeopardy! winner Ike Barinholtz Technically, Stone doesn't want any favoritism and wants to compete by taking the standard test like the normal contestants, whereas the Celebrity Jeopardy! questions tend to be[...]

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? Netflix's Avatar: The Last Airbender, Max's The Penguin, Netflix's Stranger Things 5, DC Studios' Superman: Legacy, WWE/AEW, NBC's Night Court, The CW's Superman & Lois, Prime Video's Silk: Spider Society, Adult Swim's Ninja Kamui, Brandon Routh/Superman, ABC's The Rookie, Star Trek: Legacy, James Tynion IV/Tiny Onion, Crunchyroll Presents: The Anime Effect, Jeopardy!/Mayim Bialik, Doctor Who/ Russell T[...]

There wasn't any way Jeopardy! wasn't going to come away unscathed from the controversial exit of former co-host Mayim Bialik As both parties have expressed appreciation for their time together before releasing their statements, the game show decided on the single host format with former champion Ken Jennings while leaving the door open for Bialik[...]

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? Prime Video's Reacher, NBC's Night Court, NBC's Saturday Night Live, The CW's The Flash, Saturn Awards/Seth MacFarlane, DC Studios' Superman: Legacy, TBS' AEW Dynamite, Netflix's Stranger Things 5, Paramount+'s Mayor of Kingstown, Vice TV's Dark Side of the Ring, Paramount+'s Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, AMC's The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, Comedy Central's The Daily[...]

Actress Emma Stone is always up for a challenge, not only on the big screen but also as a Jeopardy! superfan As she would have access to the easier version with her peers in Celebrity Jeopardy, the Oscar winner is having none of that, wanting to compete on the regular show, which is harder to[...]

It seemed like an inevitability, but the heat was eventually going to come to the now-solo host of Jeopardy! Ken Jennings upon the announcements of Sony and co-host Mayim Bialik of her departure on December 15th While there's speculation on whether this has anything to do with Bialik's temporary leave of the show in support[...]

Jeopardy! plans to make Ken Jennings permanent host as the true successor to the late Alex Trebek as Sony and co-host Mayim Bialik announced their parting of ways After a season of guest hosts to audition for Trebek's successor, Jennings and Bialik shared duties for the better part of three seasons following their original choice[...]

It seems WWE superstar Becky Lynch wins even when she loses, as is the case on the November 15th episode of Celebrity Jeopardy Her episode, which was hosted by Ken Jennings, and also featured actors Macaulay Culkin and Rachel Dratch scored a .51 rating in the 18-49-year-old demographic with 4.2 million watching "The Man" wasn't ever[...]

The Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions will be delayed as competing 2022-23 season winners are taking a cue from one of the series' hosts, Mayim Bialik deciding to stand in solidarity with the Writers Guild of America as part of their ongoing strike until it is resolved The syndicated game show employs WGA members and is[...]

To say the January 12, 2023 edition of Celebrity Jeopardy was a massacre would be an understatement Actor and comedian Patton Oswalt (AP Bio, The Sandman) provided that his casting as M.O.D.O.K in the Hulu stop-motion animated series wasn't some fluke exerted his dominance over actress Torrey DeVitto (Chicago Med, Pretty Little Liars) and WNBA[...]

While LeVar Burton's Jeopardy! permanent hosting dreams were dashed, Entertainment One (eOne) offered him the next best thing with a TV adaptation of the popular game Trivial Pursuit The Hasbro-owned company eOne struck a deal with the Star Trek: The Next Generation star and his company LeVar Burton Entertainment (LBE) to develop the board game[...]

Getting the role of Jeopardy! host is a dream of sorts for actress Mayim Bialik, who was part of a pool as a potential replacement for the late Alex Trebek, who passed in November 2020 On September 16, it was (sort of) realized when Sony Pictures Television announced that The Big Bang Theory and Call[...]

Now, the Reading Rainbow host is closing the book on hosting Jeopardy!, saying "Enough is enough" during a conversation with Trevor Noah on The Daily Show. Image courtesy of Sony Television "You know, we did a Kickstarter several years ago," Burton explained "I discovered then that the generation of adults now, who grew up on 'Reading Rainbow,'[...]

First, the amount of coverage we've given the long-running game show Jeopardy! Probably more in the past year or so than the entire time that Bleeding Cool's been around Second, just how badly everyone and their mother seemed to cluster-f**k the process to find someone to replace the late Alex Trebek as host We're talking[...]

For those who were wondering how Mike Richards could stay on as executive producer of Jeopardy! (and The Wheel of Fortune) after all of the controversy surrounding his stepping down from the Jeopardy! hosting job earlier this month Well, they won't have to wonder anymore with word that Sony Pictures Television has notified the staff[...]

When you see yourself in a crowded room, do your fingers itch, are you pistol-whipped? Will you step in line or release the glitch? Can you fall asleep with a panic switch? And when you see yourself in a crowded room, do your fingers itch, are you pistol-whipped? Will you step in line or release[...]

The Deadpool star took to Twitter in an about as nuanced way as possible about Sony's Jeopardy hosting situation referencing how he made his dream a reality from his failed turn in 2009's X-Men Origins: Wolverine as the Merc with the Mouth to his 2016 redemption when 20th Century Fox allowed for his 2016 self-titled[...]

As the fallout and finger-pointing continue from Jeopardy! EP Mike Richards stepping down from his recently-announced role as the new syndicated host of the long-running game show, The Big Bang Theory star Mayim Bialik will be stepping in to host the daily edition while a search continues for a new host Originally announced as the[...]

The Orville & Star Trek Unite! Seth MacFarlane's Message to Jeopardy! Image: Shutterstock.com Now here's a look at the five articles that nearly made the cut, in no particular order- CM Punk talks AEW roster, CNN needs to do better, a cynic talks Ted Lasso, The Gifted gets a timeline explanation, and Stephen Amell reflects on the[...]

With the passing of television legend Alex Trebek, millions knew that the process of finding someone to replace him as host of Jeopardy! was going to be a heartbreakingly difficult one We're not sure anyone was expecting it to become the raging clusterf**k it's now become EP Mike Richards was hired as the permanent host[...]

Less than a day after the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) called for an investigation into what they said was a "pattern" of offensive comments made while he was a host of The Randumb Show podcast (from 2013 to 2014), Mike Richards is out as the host of the long-running game show Jeopardy! Richards' comments were the subject[...]

A day after new daily Jeopardy! host Mike Richards was the subject of a report on the news website The Ringer over his repeated use of offensive language, disparaging comments about women's bodies, and more, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is calling for an investigation into what they say is a "pattern" of offensive comments The[...]

Seems like LeVar Burton might have been a victim of Jeopardy's declining ratings when it was his turn to guest host While a sentimental favorite to replace the late Alex Trebek as permanent host, one of the honors went to executive producer Mike Richards, who scored a Nielsen average of 5.9, only 0.1 down from[...]