‘Jeopardy!’ announces Mayim Bialik and Ken Jennings will continue co-hosting in 2022

Mayim Bialik and Ken Jennings will proceed to be Jeopardy!‘s hosts in 2022. 

“We’re delighted to let you realize our glorious and skilled group in entrance of and behind the digicam will proceed into 2022,” it was introduced by the sport present on Wednesday. 

The duo will proceed to “share internet hosting duties by the top” of Season 38, which is anticipated to run by August. Michael Davies will stay because the present’s government producer.

The seek for new hosts started after the November 2020 loss of life of Alex Trebek, who helmed this system since 1984. 

They held an elaborate seek for a brand new host — testing out varied celebrities. Finally, and controversially, then ended up hiring then-executive producer Mike Richards for the syndicated present with Bialik for prime-time specials.

Nonetheless, Richards stepped down days into his gig after old podcast comments were resurfaced through which he made offensive feedback about ladies’s our bodies and Jewish folks. There was additionally criticism of him over a previous lawsuit accusing him of being pregnant discrimination when he was government producer of Value Is Proper fashions. 

Richards initially continued to provide Jeopardy!, after stepping down as host, however he was later fired from the present in addition to from Wheel of Fortune. 

Bialik readily stepped in to fill the void — with help from Jennings, a consulting producer on the present, who tried out for the hosting gig however noticed problematic past comments of his own, through Twitter, surfaced. It was introduced Bialik and Jennings would host by the top of 2021 whereas the seek for the everlasting host of the syndicated present continued.

Bialik has stated again and again that she’d prefer to be the everlasting host. The Name Me Kat star said, “There isn’t any different job I might reasonably have.”