Although I can't imagine Sean Connery saying "your mother Bialik!"
Mark Jeffries [email protected] On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 12:28 PM Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: > Postponing the tournament was always an option. I recall while listening > to Inside Jeopardy last summer that Davies wants the tournament to air at > the same time every year because it brings a ratings boost. But it’s not > worth all the bad PR of forcing contestants to cross a picket line. > > If they used spare regular Jeopardy clues for Celebrity Jeopardy the > contestants would have scores in the double digits going into final. > > On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 11:54 AM Mark Jeffries <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> 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. 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