Alex Trebek speaks on the forty fourth annual Daytime Emmy Awards on the Pasadena Civic Heart in Pasadena, California, on April 30, 2017. “Jeopardy!” has a particular plan for Election Day on Nov. 8 — which occurs to fall on the second anniversary of Alex Trebek’s loss of life. Chris Pizzello, Invision through Related Press
“Jeopardy!” has a number of large issues on the horizon. This fall will see the return of “Superstar Jeopardy!” and the drastically anticipated “Match of Champions” — that includes mega-champions like Amy Schneider, Matt Amodio and Mattea Roach.
However the present additionally has a particular plan in place for Election Day on Nov. 8 — which occurs to fall on the second anniversary of Alex Trebek’s loss of life.
“We're planning one thing actually great for Election Day,” “Jeopardy!” government producer Michael Davies revealed in a latest episode of the podcast “Inside Jeopardy!” “I consider it might properly break the web as properly. That’s all I’m going to say at this level.”
“Jeopardy!” producer Sarah Whitcomb Foss famous that the particular episode can pay tribute to Trebek, who was the face of the beloved quiz present for 36 years and hosted proper up till his loss of life on Nov. 8, 2020.
“General we owe him a incredible episode of ‘Jeopardy!’ on that day,” Davies mentioned.
‘Jeopardy!’ on Election Day 2022
Common exhibits that sometimes air on Tuesdays typically don’t air on election evening as election protection dominates the foremost networks. Two years in the past, “Jeopardy!” was preempted in a number of areas because of the election, the Deseret Information reported.
In 2020, the episode on election evening featured contestant Devin Rossiter, a longtime “Jeopardy!” fan from Bakersfield, California, who cherished the present a lot that he used to have his mother and father faux to be contestants whereas he performed host, in response to The Ringer.
“Lots of people who reside regionally are asking, ‘I do know you possibly can’t say how you probably did, however is there a method I can see you on the present?’” Rossiter informed The Ringer. “The one factor I’ve been capable of inform folks is, properly, you possibly can watch on Nov. 4. And if I’m nonetheless there, you’ll know.” (He did actually win the sport on election evening, and gained the next recreation as properly).
With Davies’ latest announcement, it seems there’s an opportunity “Jeopardy!” might break up the common gameplay to have a particular tribute or episode honoring Trebek.
The present beforehand paid tribute to Trebek a couple of month after his loss of life, interrupting its common programming to air two weeks price of episodes that featured the late host delivering clues from particular places all over the world, per the Deseret Information. The present then proceeded to air Trebek’s remaining 5 episodes in the beginning of 2021.
Jim Gilligan was the ultimate “Jeopardy!” champion below Trebek — and the primary returning champion below Ken Jennings, who was the present’s first visitor host following Trebek’s loss of life.
“There’s by no means going to be one other Alex Trebek,” Gilligan beforehand informed the Deseret Information. “To say that he’s iconic is type of an understatement, and I'm simply extremely grateful to have had the chance to look on the present whereas he was nonetheless internet hosting. It was the joys of a lifetime, and It’s undoubtedly going to be one thing that I need talked about in my obituary.”