Celebrity Jeopardy! to Have a "Somewhat New Format", According to Showrunner

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Fans Love Mayim Bialik's Stint arsenic "Jeopardy!" Host

The stars are being enactment to the test.

However, erstwhile a caller radical of stars puts their cognition to the trial connected Celebrity Jeopardy! this autumn — they'll beryllium doing it with a spot of a twist. ABC has announced plans to crook the star-studded mentation of the fashionable crippled amusement into a 13-week tournament.

In an interrogation with TV Guide, Jeopardy! enforcement shaper Michael Davies expressed his excitement astir the "somewhat caller format," which volition diagnostic hour-long shows alternatively of the 30-minute modular of the syndicated series.

"The effect has been phenomenal from our fans and the celebrities," Davies continued, promising that it volition inactive beryllium "a precise authentic Jeopardy! experience," adjacent with the Hollywood vibes successful the air

Davies added, "What radical privation to spot is celebrities enactment nether the aforesaid pressure."

Celebrity Jeopardy! big Mayim Bialik, besides assured that these personage contestants won't beryllium getting immoderate passes. Bialik called it "the OG Jeopardy, with celebrities," successful an announcement video released connected the show's official Twitter page August 23. "Let's anticipation they've been speechmaking much than screenplays."

On Aug. 24, ABC announced that the new play of Celebrity Jeopardy! will include Simu Liu, Michael CeraBJ NovakIliza SchlesingerRay RomanoConstance WuAisha Tyler and Patton Oswalt.

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Celebrity Jeopardy! premieres Sept. 25 astatine 8 p.m. ET connected ABC

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