I have 3 theories: 1. Unlike contestants for the syndicated show who go through a testing and audition process, celebrity contestants have no familiarity with the game, its conventions, and its rhythms, and they don’t get adequate practice time. The thing I saw from last week was Iliza Schlesinger was playing a reasonably good game but completely fell apart when she was asked to make a Daily Double wager.
2. ABC wants the show as part of their legacy game show reboots. The attitude on those shows is more open, like playing in a living room rather than an arena. The producers are telling Mayim and the contestants to keep it breezy, make side comments, and clown it up some. 3. Those of us who watch Jeopardy regularly have the format of two rounds and final hard wired in our brains and that probably goes for the contestants as well. The third round is causing mental fatigue and making the contestants a bit loopy. On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 4:15 AM 'Dave Sikula' via TVorNotTV < [email protected]> wrote: > Not to talk this too far off track, but am I the only one who's finding > the current season of Celebrity Jeopardy an irredeemable train wreck? > > I mean, I'm expecting the questions to be dumbed down ("This striped > animal's name starts with a Z and ends with an A"), but even as moronic as > the questions are, the "celebrities" are still whiffing on them. Constance > Wu in particular might as well have been on SNL. Bialik has been helpless > so far in trying to keep things under control, but I don't think even > Trebek would be able to do anything this time around. > > --Dave Sikula > > -- > 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/220f848a-7f98-4d90-b629-b68d9c1bd235n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/220f848a-7f98-4d90-b629-b68d9c1bd235n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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-FiGvbxRoBz1LTfa%2Boi9_WMcavHpafed5OjB%3DL20O3O115A%40mail.gmail.com.
