‘Jeopardy’ Reportedly Finalizing Deals with Co-Hosts Mayim Bialik and Ken Jennings

Jeopardy is reportedly locking down its two permanent guest hosts, but we’ll stop you before you start the guessing game — the answers have been right there all along. The show is keeping Mayim Bialik and Ken Jennings on as joint hosts, Deadline reports.

Both Bialik and Jennings are reportedly finalizing deals to host the game show going forward after splitting host responsibilities for nearly a year. Sources told Deadline the co-hosts will once again share the hosting gig for Jeopardy Season 39. Bialik is also set to host Celebrity Jeopardy, Variety reports.

Bialik and Jennings were first tapped to co-lead Jeopardy after Mike Richards, a former Jeopardy executive producer, was chosen as the late Alex Trebek’s successor but swiftly left the show after his past derogatory comments about multiple groups, including Jewish people and women, resurfaced.

When Richards left Jeopardy only nine days after being named host, Bialik and Jennings were named hosts for Season 38 in December 2021.

Jeopardy fans were already familiar with Jennings, who had a record-breaking run as a contestant on the show back in 2004, when he pulled off the longest winning streak on Jeopardy. 

Bialik, who appeared on The Big Bang Theory and Blossom before her turn on Jeopardy, is an actor with an academic background; she earned her PhD in neuroscience from UCLA.

Jeopardy hinted that it would be sticking with the two-host formula not long ago. While speaking with Variety backstage at the 2022 Daytime Emmy Awards, Jeopardy executive producer Michael Davies said the show would have news about new “hosts” in the near future.

“With all of our plans for Jeopardy! — which is more Jeopardy!, not less, more versions —we’re going to need multiple hosts to represent the entire audience, to represent the entire country, in order to take this franchise forward,” Davies said at the time.