Sony now says that the TOC will be postponed until after the WGA strike, but there will be new episodes in the fall and the writing staff wrote the material for ABC celebrity season 2 coming in the fall before the strike:
https://deadline.com/2023/07/jeopardy-tournament-of-champions-moved-due-to-writers-strike-1235448258/ On Tuesday, July 25, 2023 at 7:25:56 PM UTC-5 Kevin M. wrote: > I know the producers intend for the show to continue regardless of the > strike (same with Wheel). In any game show, there are countless unused > questions produced that are rejected but not thrown away. I still have > thousands of unused questions from “Challenge of the Child Geniuses” that I > use in my middle school classroom, and there were only a handful of > episodes even produced of that. > > The issue is that writers rooms in game shows operate independently of and > isolated from the rest of the production crew, and never the two shall > meet. So if the writers filed away the questions in an unmarked drawer of a > file cabinet, or if they put them in a password protected folder on a > computer, locating and sorting through them could be problematic. Anyone > from the production office who walks into the writers room cannot just walk > back into the production office. So it’s going to be an ordeal. > > On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 5:01 PM Jim Ellwanger <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> When Alex hosted, they produced new episodes during the 2007-08 writers' >> strike reusing old material, and nobody seemed to notice. (It's unknown >> whether there were any potential contestants who refused to cross the >> picket line.) >> >> During the writers' strikes prior to that, the writers were not part of >> the WGA, so the show was unaffected. >> >> I'm actually in the potential contestant pool right now, so if they do >> wind up producing new episodes somehow, and they call me... well, I guess >> I'll have a big decision to make at that point. >> >> >> On Jul 25, 2023, at 4:49 PM, Brad Beam <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> With whispers that what’s left of the *Jeopardy!* writers’ room may >> reuse and recycle old clues for the upcoming season, several ToC contestants >> have announced that they won't cross the picket line at Sony. >> >> https://tvline.com/news/jeopardy-season-40-delayed-premiere-date-writers-strike-update-1235018700/ >> >> >> -- >> 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/003601d9bf52%24a531d430%24ef957c90%24%40suddenlink.net >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/003601d9bf52%24a531d430%24ef957c90%24%40suddenlink.net?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/3B517CC4-98FB-4197-9E09-445DA72B8B1F%40ellwanger.tv >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/3B517CC4-98FB-4197-9E09-445DA72B8B1F%40ellwanger.tv?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > Kevin M. (RPCV) > -- 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/ccce3046-ca54-4033-b031-05ba7a79e770n%40googlegroups.com.
