‘Jeopardy!’ Announces Ken Jennings and Mayim Bialik As Hosts for Entire Season 38

Jeopardy! is coming in hot with another big announcement as the game show looks ahead into its 2022 tapings. For the remainder of Season 38, Mayim Bialik and Ken Jennings will tag-team hosting duties, going back and forth until the storied quiz show rounds the corner into a new season. Producers Sony Pictures Television told The Hollywood Reporter that the duo will remain hosts through the end of the syndicated game show’s current season, which ends next July.

The pair have been tackling Jeopardy!‘s hosting duties for most of Season 38, taking over after the Mike Richards fiasco unfurled late last summer. The EP stepped down from all of his duties with Sony Pictures Television after he was outed for making controversial comments about women’s bodies on an old podcast, as well as sued for harassment and discrimination for his time on The Price is Right. After his five episodes aired at the beginning of the season, Bialik and Jennings have been at the podium ever since.

Michael Davies, who has stepped up as interim showrunner for Richards after the hosting debacle, will also continue through season’s end.

“We are delighted to let you know that Mayim Bialik and Ken Jennings will continue to share hosting duties through the end of Jeopardy! Season 38, and Michael Davies will remain as executive producer. We’re so pleased to have such an excellent and experienced team in front of and behind the camera as we head into 2022!” Sony tweeted on the Jeopardy Twitter account.

This move means that Jeopardy! will not make a move to find Alex Trebek’s full-time replacement until Season 39. Bialik has been open about wanting the permanent role; however, her production schedule on Season 2 of Call Me Kat has proved an obstacle for filming.

Sources told THR that Sony “has no plans to test anyone else for the hosting role after the Richards-led parade of trial runs that many consider to have been performative in nature before the former EP ultimately selected himself for the role.”

Richards was tapped as EP and showrunner of Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune back in 2019. He was announced as Trebek’s replacement in August, but stepped down after a handful of press outlets reported on old discrimination lawsuits he faced back in 2010. He was also outed for making controversial jokes about women’s bodies, Jewish people, and the disabled community on a podcast that ran back in 2013. After he stepped down as host, Sony fired him as showrunner not long after.

Jeopardy! airs weeknights on ABC at 7/6c.

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