Posted on 08/07/2022 2:37:03 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Longtime fans of “Jeopardy!” are threatening to boycott the show since Mayim Bialik and Ken Jennings are splitting hosting duties.
On Wednesday, the beloved game show announced that the two interim hosts would keep their jobs, with Jennings hosting from September to January and Bialik taking over from January through the end of the season.
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My wife and I watch Jeopardy. We didn’t watch it when the man that thinks he is a woman was winning - just sickening.
While we do prefer the guy hosting it, the gal does okay. I would think anybody with a grade-school education and a rehearsal on how to pronounce the words could be the host.
My wife and I love Jeopardy. But, it’s a TV show. Some people need to get a life.
I think the death of a long-time host or retirement of such is good time to stop watching any show, because subsequent shows just won’t be the same.
Can anyone summarise the drama over who hosts Jeopardy? Is the reigning champion who finally landed the gig not doing a good job? Or is he doing a great job and TV insiders can’t stand seeing a rookie do that?
Mayim Bialik is a hard lefty and insufferable at times. But she is also a good performer so I don’t understand the rancor. Of course I don’t watch TV so, whatever.
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Agreed. The Price Is Right just isn’t the same since Bob Barker retired.
Jennings is just as leftist as Bialik
Though Bialik, who describes herself as a Modern Orthodox Jew, is a hard-core supporter of Israel and has come out against vaccines in the past. She therefore isn’t your typical Hollywood leftist.
It is a TV show. Our family likes to watch it. Most of it is trivia. Some of it is lame... Watch it if you like, and watch something else if you don’t. We often switch to reruns of “Emergency”. That is why TVs have different channels...
“We often switch to reruns of “Emergency”
Adam 12 here. Half the reason is for all the classic cars....and it’s a reminder of when society was actually mostly civil and the police were allowed to actually enforce the law.
Bialik has a PhD in Neuroscience so if she has a problem with vaccines, she might be on to something. (She also has a BS in Neuroscience and Hebrew & Jewish Studies.)
Yep they’ve wrecked it.
For really good laughs, watch reruns of Family Feud. Don’t know a thing about his politics—and not that I need to—but host, Steve Harvey, is a hoot to watch...very funny and entertaining.
As for Jeopardy, haven’t had any desire to watch since Alex Trebec passed. Irreplaceable, IMHO. Feel the same about WOF’s Pat Sajak and Vanna White.
Agreed. It’s a damn quiz show. We still watch Jeopardy. I prefer Ken, but she is fine with us.
I thought leftists are always trying to cancel her.
I have noticed that Jeopardy cannot resist giving the questions and answers a "woke" slant, which is obnoxious and reveals a mind-numbed mediocrity somewhere in the show's productions. If anything causes me to want to stop watching it's that.
Propaganda is boring.
Agitprop is contemptible.
"Wokism" reveals intellectual and moral mediocrity, at best, and a mindless, obsequiousness to the zeitgeist groupthink incompatible with anything high-minded. Jeopardy is interesting because it appeals to the intellect. "Wokism" is the epitome of banality.
We don’t watch Jeopardy anymore, mostly because Alex Trebec is gone, but even before that the show wasn’t as good as it had been years ago. Successfully answering questions now seems to depend on being able to solve hints and pick up references, rather than simply knowing information.
You’re right about the pervasive political bias, which is another reason we quit watching.
Alec Trebek was a good host, but that’s all. Mayim is also good, and Ken Jennings is better.
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