Re: [TV orNotTV] This never happened when Alex hosted

2023-07-26 Thread Brad Beam
Given the current hosting situation, expect Mr Connery to reference all of Ken’s wives, sisters, and sister-wives.Sent from my iPhoneOn Jul 26, 2023, at 13:34, Mark Jeffries wrote:Although I can't imagine Sean Connery saying "your mother Bialik!"Mark Jeffriesspotligh...@gmail.comOn Wed, Jul 26, 2

Re: [TV orNotTV] This never happened when Alex hosted

2023-07-26 Thread Mark Jeffries
Although I can't imagine Sean Connery saying "your mother Bialik!" Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 12:28 PM Tom Wolper wrote: > Postponing the tournament was always an option. I recall while listening > to Inside Jeopardy last summer that Davies wants the tournament

Re: [TV orNotTV] This never happened when Alex hosted

2023-07-26 Thread Tom Wolper
Postponing the tournament was always an option. I recall while listening to Inside Jeopardy last summer that Davies wants the tournament to air at the same time every year because it brings a ratings boost. But it’s not worth all the bad PR of forcing contestants to cross a picket line. If they us

Re: [TV orNotTV] This never happened when Alex hosted

2023-07-26 Thread Mark Jeffries
Sony now says that the TOC will be postponed until after the WGA strike, but there will be new episodes in the fall and the writing staff wrote the material for ABC celebrity season 2 coming in the fall before the strike: https://deadline.com/2023/07/jeopardy-tournament-of-champions-moved-due-

Re: [TV orNotTV] This never happened when Alex hosted

2023-07-25 Thread Kevin M.
I know the producers intend for the show to continue regardless of the strike (same with Wheel). In any game show, there are countless unused questions produced that are rejected but not thrown away. I still have thousands of unused questions from “Challenge of the Child Geniuses” that I use in my

Re: [TV orNotTV] This never happened when Alex hosted

2023-07-25 Thread Jim Ellwanger
When Alex hosted, they produced new episodes during the 2007-08 writers' strike reusing old material, and nobody seemed to notice. (It's unknown whether there were any potential contestants who refused to cross the picket line.) During the writers' strikes prior to that, the writers were not par

[TV orNotTV] This never happened when Alex hosted

2023-07-25 Thread Brad Beam
With whispers that what's left of the Jeopardy! writers' room may reuse and recycle old clues for the upcoming season, several ToC contestants have announced that they won't cross the picket line at Sony. https://tvline.com/news/jeopardy-season-40-delayed-premiere-date-writers-str ike-update-123501