{"id":20946,"date":"2023-12-20T04:50:37","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T10:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=20946"},"modified":"2023-12-18T10:13:28","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T16:13:28","slug":"out-of-jeopardy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/out-of-jeopardy\/","title":{"rendered":"Out Of Jeopardy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/jeopardy-13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1218\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/jeopardy-13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/jeopardy-13.jpg 720w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/jeopardy-13-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a>This past spring, going against the advice of the union, Mayim Bialik opted against hosting the final episodes of the <em>Jeopardy!<\/em> season in deference to the ongoing strike by the Writer&#8217;s Guild.\u00a0 Sony and <em>Jeopardy!<\/em> producers did not put up much of a fight, since her co-host, Ken Jennings, was there to step in and take her place.\u00a0 When the current season started, Jennings continued to host with both the Writer&#8217;s Guild and the Screen Actors Guild still out on strike.\u00a0 With both strikes now resolved, the door was theoretically opened for Bialik to return and continue swapping hosting duties with Jennings.\u00a0 That door is now closed.<\/p>\n<p>Sony announced last week that Ken Jennings would be the full-time host of the syndicated version of <em>Jeopardy!<\/em>\u00a0 There is a small possibility that Bialik could return in the future to host a future primetime special, but that also seems unlikely at this point.\u00a0 From a show perspective, this is probably the right move.\u00a0 Having two rotating hosts wasn&#8217;t really working, and Bialik never seemed to grow into the role the way Jennings did, instead coming off more as an actor playing as a host.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past spring, going against the advice of the union, Mayim Bialik opted against hosting the final episodes of the Jeopardy! season in deference to the ongoing strike by the Writer&#8217;s Guild.\u00a0 Sony and Jeopardy! producers did not put up much of a fight, since her co-host, Ken Jennings, was there to step in and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[1725,9041,1659,10765,9034],"class_list":["post-20946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","tag-jeopardy","tag-ken-jennings","tag-mayim-bialik","tag-sag-aftra","tag-wga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20947,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20946\/revisions\/20947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}