Here’s another weekly editorial with my thoughts on happenings in the world of Jeopardy! (and trivia) this week.
- Jeopardy! UK, hosted by Stephen Fry, is returning for a second season. Casting for Series 2 is open; closing date for applications is Friday, September 13. It appears as though Series 2 will be 25 episodes, scheduled to air at some point in 2025.
- According to On Camera Audiences, Pop Culture Jeopardy will be taping between August 17–29; with what I know about the series, I believe that will be the full series being taped during that time frame.
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- I wish people would use general common sense when posting to Reddit about the show. Especially in this era when any post on r/Jeopardy that gets any significant number of upvotes gets amplified by tabloid media, complaints about reruns—which is a thing that has happened for 40 years with Jeopardy and is something that happens in television, because fewer people watch game shows over the summer, especially in an Olympic year where the show has to compete with both party political conventions and the Olympics—just paints the fandom as a bunch of idiotic whiners. Just use a modicum of common sense when posting things, and we’ll be fine.
- If I were in charge at Sony, I’d definitely be annoyed at the fact that my internal Jeopardy gossip was being consistently leaked to Alex Diaz at The Sun. (He gets a co-byline on every internal gossip piece.) This is one thing that never happened during the Harry Friedman era, but there’s definitely someone new on the inside on the Jeopardy! production team that is leaking gossip to tabloid reporters. I much preferred life when the show wasn’t consistently gossiping to the tabloids—I thought the show’s staff were better than that sort of behavior.
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I don’t mind reruns; they deserve a vacation like anyone else. But, just curious, do you know what date new episodes start up again?
September 9.
Did games like “What’s My Line, that aired during Prime Time, have “vacations”? I know that the hosts, panelists, did. With the advent of videorecording, daily games, could stockpale episodes to cover the summer, not sure if all did. I belive Price takes the summer off, as we know Jeopardy, and, Wheel do.
I did not do an exhaustive research, but from IMDB it looks like the original had 49 – 51 episodes a year.
Ok, the original, NYC, Art Fleming Jeopardy, didn’t have vacation gaps, but they were pre recorded so with stockpiling, everyone could take some vacation, while the show ran nearly year long.
But my question was actually about the prime time games that, at least originally, aired live, like What’s My Line.