Ken Jennings to Take Over as 'Celebrity Jeopardy!' Host From Mayim Bialik

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Celebrity Jeopardy! has a new host, and it’s a familiar face. ABC confirmed to ET that co-host Ken Jennings will take over hosting duties for the upcoming season of from Mayim Bialik, who hosted the first season of the show.Meanwhile, showrunner Michael Davies shared that Jeopardy!

is making some changes for its upcoming 40th season amid the ongoing Writers Guild of America strike.Davies gave an update on the long-running trivia show — hosted by Bialik and Jennings — on an episode of the Inside Jeopardy!podcast, sharing that the show's fall season will re-use questions and bring back past runners-up to compete again.«I believe, principally, that it would not be fair to have new contestants making their first appearance on the Alex Trebek Stage with non-original material,» Davies explained. «We’re going to open the season with a second chance tournament for players from season 37 who lost their initial game.

Winners from that will advance to a season 37 and season 38 Champions Wildcard.»The season 40 questions, he added, will be «a combination of material that our WGA writers wrote before the strike, which is still in the database, and material that has been re-deployed from multiple multiple seasons of the show.»Alex Trebek, who began hosting the show in 1984, died in November 2020 at age 80 after a battle with pancreatic cancer.Trebek wanted to keep hosting Jeopardy!

as long as he was able. Shortly after his death, ET spoke with Jeopardy! Executive Producer Mike Richards, who revealed that he and Trebek never discussed who'd be the host's replacement. «He never mentioned names to us.