As an aside, I wasn’t crazy about Ken when he did his first hosting stint but he seems to be loosening up as more time goes by and I’m warming up to him as a host.
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Ken did a better job on this first stint as host than I thought he would. His passion for the show was clearly evident. He has been even better with the current stint. Seems to me he has relaxed a lot more and is less focussed on replacing Alex (tough to avoid that as the first post-Alex host) and is trying to make it his.
They also announced officially on the show that next week will start a professors’ tournament. Trying something different.
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I am missing the continuation of Amy’s run. I was thinking the extra tournaments with Mayim would be shown separately but I obviously misunderstood. The professor one so far is just okay.
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They talked about Mayim hosting primetime shows and some type of spin off series which she was announced as a host back in August. But the show typically has several tournaments a year (teachers, teen, kids, tournament of champs, etc) which interrupt the regular shows. Often not much of an issue in that contestants with 10+ wins are not common (though 3 this season so far). Breaks for short term winning contestants aren’t as noticeable.
From Twitter:
We are delighted to let you know our excellent and experienced team in front of and behind the camera will continue into 2022:
@missmayim and @kenjennings will share hosting duties through the end of ! Season 38, and Michael Davies will remain as executive producer.
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That answers a question we had back when Ken and Mayim were announced as hosting the rest of this year. Was it the calendar year or this season (which will continue into 2022).
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Wouldn’t be surprised if the shared hosting turned into a permanent arrangement.
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I really like having Ken as the host - he seems to become a part of the program and doesn’t draw unnecessary attention away from the show for me.
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Just saw this today - " ‘Jeopardy!’ champ Amy Schneider’s 21st win in a row makes her the show’s winningest woman"
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Ken is getting better and better. He can throw in a correct response naturally. Example, 2 people mentioned the wrong president, and he said it was the one in between.
Amy is definitely smart
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Very cool! I like Amy - she is so knowledgeable and quick but she has a sense of humor and comes across as very humble.
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Amy’s fun fact tonight was getting 1600 on the SATs. Ken asked what her secret was. I was waiting for her to say “it was on the 2400 scale” but nope! Good for her! (to quote Alex).
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Some Final Jeopardy questions are a piece of cake but I thought tonight’s was tough–had to do with 1912 polar explorers. Interesting since 1912 was the clue to yesterday’s FJ (year of the Titanic, rescue ship Carpathian).
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Thursday night Amy faced two strong competitors. It was not a runaway for her and she seemed to become flustered towards the end.
I saw that earlier today and was sorry to hear that. I like Amy . Hope she’s okay-getting robbed is certainly traumatic.
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Wow. Nobody got Springsteen tonight. Crazy!
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Wow, I got final right and Amy didn’t!!! :::::thud:::::
One of those time when I’m screaming at the TV
Nor did I
I didn’t get the final, but was amazed when no one got Bruce!
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