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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[...]

If new daily Jeopardy! host Mike Richards (with The Big Bang Theory actress Mayim Bialik hosting prime time and special spinoffs) thought being name long-running game show's permanent host would put to rest questions about his past, he learned otherwise on Wednesday News website The Ringer posted an extensive report earlier today after screening episodes[...]

In a move that reminds us once again that there can be drama even in the selection of a new permanent host for Jeopardy!, it would appear the long-running game show is altering its hosting plans a bit The Daily Beast first reported (and now confirmed) Jeopardy! will be moving forward with two official hosts-[...]

Last week, reports surfaced that Jeopardy! executive producer Mike Richards was "in advanced negotiations" with Sony Pictures TV to be the long-running game show's permanent host (though a final deal is still not officially in place) Shortly after, Richards' involvement in past lawsuits involving The Price is Right models Brandi Cochran and Lanisha Cole during his time[...]

From there, we wrap up with "5 More Things"- five articles that almost made the cut but are still worth your time. LeVar Burton & Jeopardy! / Rick and Morty (Images: Screencap) Now here's a look at BCTV Daily Dispatch's Top 10/24 for Sunday, August 8, 2021: 10 Domino's Threatens to Slice Ties with AEW Over Pizza Cutter[...]

What kind of clothes do I suppose would be worn by a man with a mole on his nose? Who knows? Did I happen to mention, did I bother to disclose, that this man that we're seeking with the mole on his nose? I'm not sure of his clothes or anything else, except he's Chinese,[...]

After over a dozen guest hosts stepped up and stepped in to honor the legendary Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek and in some instances audition for the permanent job, Variety reported on Wednesday that Jeopardy! executive producer Mike Richards (host: Divided, The Pyramid) was "in advanced negotiations" with Sony Pictures TV to be the permanent host[...]

While LeVar Burton achieved his dream of becoming Jeopardy! host, it was an experience that was all-too-short As part of a series of guest hosts for season 37 to succeed late host Alex Trebek, Sony Pictures Television is looking to finalize talks with executive producer Mike Richards to serve as the next permanent host Upon[...]