On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 1:26 PM Mark Jeffries <[email protected]> wrote:
> Jennings' less tweetable problem with replacing Trebek is that he knows > too many people in the trivia community who would become automatically > ineligible to appear on "Jeopardy!" (if they haven't yet appeared) if he > became permanent host. (Those people would have no problem getting booked > on "The Chase"--it would just be for an episode where Brad or James is the > Chaser.) > I don't see what the problem would be here. There's such a huge pool of applicants that disqualifying a few wouldn't make any difference. And the TV audience doesn't know the stars of the trivia community and wouldn't care if they weren't on Jeopardy. > > I do find it interesting that with Jennings' first day only seven shows > away (or five new shows away) they have yet to announce who else are going > to be guest hosts, since I assume that there will not be a permanent host > until the fall and the beginning of Season 38. Dan Patrick's already said > he's not interested, but Jeff Probst won't be doing anything until > "Survivor" can go back up. And of course, there's the Clue Crew and Sajak > could step in for a week or two. > Whoever is hosting the shows have already been recorded, at least for January, and if Sony or the Jeopardy front office isn't releasing names it's their marketing strategy. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiE%2BLng4LMy4-Ut_QKMw%2BY3Aumi4mpJ5bGXJ4WpSN%2Bv93w%40mail.gmail.com.
