JoeB131
Diamond Member
The ongoing quest to find a replacement for Alex Trebek on Jeopardy! has turned into a fiasco.
As we all know, Alex Trebek passed away last year after hosting the game show for 35 years. He hosted it with grace, dignity and made it a lot of fun.
But even though they had known for a year that Trebek was ill, and longer than that he was getting old (He was 80 when he passed away) they didn't have a clear plan forward.
Their first choice was Ken Jennings, the biggest winner in the show's history. He did a pretty good job on his six weeks as guest host, but he was found to have made insensitive tweets about disabled people.
Then they picked executive producer Mike Richards. But then found some old podcasts where he said insensitive things to women and he was named in a lawsuit by models on The Price is Right. So not only did he lose the hosting gig, but he might even lose his job as a producer of the show.
They are going with their third choice, Mayim Bialek... But nope. She said some stupid things about vaccines once, so she isn't going to last.
Some of the fans want Levar Burton, because of fondness for him from Reading Rainbow, Star Trek and Roots. Being a big Trek nerd, I wouldn't mind this, but his one week as host needed some polish. (Then again, late last year, they reran Alex Trebek's first episode from 1985, and it was not exactly polished, either, and Trebek had hosted other game shows before he landed that sweet Jeopardy! gig.)
As we all know, Alex Trebek passed away last year after hosting the game show for 35 years. He hosted it with grace, dignity and made it a lot of fun.
But even though they had known for a year that Trebek was ill, and longer than that he was getting old (He was 80 when he passed away) they didn't have a clear plan forward.
Their first choice was Ken Jennings, the biggest winner in the show's history. He did a pretty good job on his six weeks as guest host, but he was found to have made insensitive tweets about disabled people.
Then they picked executive producer Mike Richards. But then found some old podcasts where he said insensitive things to women and he was named in a lawsuit by models on The Price is Right. So not only did he lose the hosting gig, but he might even lose his job as a producer of the show.
They are going with their third choice, Mayim Bialek... But nope. She said some stupid things about vaccines once, so she isn't going to last.
Some of the fans want Levar Burton, because of fondness for him from Reading Rainbow, Star Trek and Roots. Being a big Trek nerd, I wouldn't mind this, but his one week as host needed some polish. (Then again, late last year, they reran Alex Trebek's first episode from 1985, and it was not exactly polished, either, and Trebek had hosted other game shows before he landed that sweet Jeopardy! gig.)