Posts tagged as: Jeopardy

Jeopardy! Showrunner Reveals Changes For Upcoming Season

Ken Jennings on the Jeopardy! set

On Monday’s episode of the “Jeopardy!” podcast “Inside Jeopardy!,” showrunner Michael Davies explained how the trivia series plans to handle its uncoming fall seasonin light of the ongoing WGA strike and announced a sweetening of the pot for second and third-place winners. “I believe, principally, that it would not be fair to have new contestants […]

Jeopardy! Special To Feature Return Of Big Winners

The three highest money winners in Jeopardy history will return to ABC for a prime-time competition special. “Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time” is a multiple consecutive-night event hosted by Alex Trebek premiering Jan. 7. Harry Friedman executive produces.

Jeopardy! Makes Its Streaming Debut On Hulu

Jeopardy!, the quiz show hosted by Alex Trebek made its subscription streaming debut Friday with 60 episodes available on Hulu. To kick off the premiere, Hulu curated collections of some of Jeopardy!’s flagship special events, including a Tournament of Champions, a College Championship, and a Kids Week, as well as Battle of the Decades, which […]

Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune Coming Next Month to the PS4

Ubisoft announced today that they are working on video games based on two of America’s most popular and well known game shows, Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune. The games will be available for download individually – for $19.99 – or bundled together in a retail compilation for $39.99. According to Ubisoft, the games are set […]

Jeopardy Honors Cindy Stowell

Alex Trebek on Wednesday took a moment to honor Jeopardy contestant Cindy Stowell, who on Dec. 5 died from Stage 4 colon cancer. She was 41. Stowell, a six-day champion whose earnings totaled $103,801, filmed her episodes in August and September. (Her episodes began airing on Dec. 13.) Those earnings were donated posthumously to cancer research. […]

Watson Win Propels IBM Community Grid Effort

Watson wasn’t the only computer system that won this week when it competed successfully against two human champions on the Jeopardy! game show. The other computing system is called World Community Grid, a virtual supercomputer that helps scientists solve humanitarian challenges by tapping the unused computing power of personal computers around the world. Scientists who […]

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