Mike Richards OUT arsenic "Jeopardy!" Executive Producer Amid Controversy

What is...nostalgia?

This fall, Jeopardy! will grant erstwhile host Alex Trebek with tribute episode. Executive producer Michael Davies and producer Sarah Whitcomb Foss said the peculiar volition travel connected Nov. 8, the 2nd day of Trebek's passing—which besides happens to beryllium Election Day.

"Overall, we beryllium him a fantastic occurrence of Jeopardy! connected that day," Davies told the Inside Jeopardy! podcast. "It whitethorn good interruption the internet. I don't privation to springiness excessively overmuch away."

Trebek passed distant successful 2020 aft battling pancreatic crab for implicit a year. 

Ken Jennings and Mayim Bialik, who were named imperishable Jeopardy! co-hosts July 25, shared their excitement astatine the imaginable of ushering the amusement into a caller era. 

"It's precise breathtaking to get to stock this grant and this level with Ken, who is specified a legend," Bialik shared. "It's overwhelming, but successful a truly bully way."

"I'm conscionable specified a instrumentality of the show—to this day, I consciousness similar a fan—I wouldn't beryllium the idiosyncratic I americium without each the Jeopardy!," Jennings added. "I watched arsenic a kid, and then, of course, it changed my beingness successful a large mode 20 years ago. It's conscionable an grant to beryllium associated with the amusement successful immoderate way, and present with Mayim treble the perks."