Mayim Bialik (L) and Mike Richards named as new hosts of Jeopardy.Getty PhotosMike Richards and Mayim Bialik have been named as the brand new hosts
Mayim Bialik (L) and Mike Richards named as new hosts of Jeopardy.
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Mike Richards and Mayim Bialik have been named as the brand new hosts of “Jeopardy!,” Sony revealed Wednesday.
Richards, an American tv producer, will host the long-running day by day syndicated program whereas Bialik will host primetime and spinoff collection.
“We took this determination extremely severely,” mentioned Ravi Ahuja, chairman of worldwide tv studios and company improvement for Sony Photos. “An amazing quantity of labor and deliberation has gone into it, maybe greater than has ever gone into the choice of hosts for a present – deservedly so as a result of it is ‘Jeopardy!’ and we’re following the incomparable Alex Trebek.”
The sport present has cycled by way of plenty of visitor hosts since Trebek handed away final November, together with Ken Jennings, Katie Couric, Aaron Rodgers, Anderson Cooper, David Faber and LeVar Burton.
Richards, who signed a multiyear take care of Sony in 2019, has served as government producer of “The Value is Proper” for 11 years. He additionally labored as an government producer of “Let’s Make a Deal.” He has hosted a number of collection together with “Magnificence and the Geek” and the 2012 revival of “The Pyramid.”
Bialik, greatest recognized for her portrayal of Amy Farrah Fowler on CBS’ “The Huge Bang Concept,” is an creator, neuroscientist and government producer and star of Fox’s “Name Me Kat.”
She’s going to host “Jeopardy! Nationwide Faculty Championship,” an all-new match that pits 15 faculties in opposition to one another in two weeks of tense head-to-head competitors.
Ahuja mentioned a senior group of Sony Image Tv executives consulted a number of panels and focus teams to pick Richards and Bialik.
“We knew early on that we wished to divide the internet hosting tasks and it grew to become very clear that Mike and Mayim had been the plain decisions,” he mentioned. “They had been each on the prime of our analysis and evaluation.”