Ken Jennings Confirmed To Host ‘Jeopardy!’ For Season 40 Amidst Strikes

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Ken Jennings will be hosting Jeopardy! as it returns for its 40th season. The show returns today, September 11, as part of a “changed” season 40, per exec producer Michael Davies. There had been co…

Second Chance competition, which features 27 select contestants from Season 37 who didn’t become champions in their initial appearances given the chance to win again.

Davies, who took over as exec producer and showrunner on a permanent basis last year, admitted that a lot of his plans for Season 40 and the post-season episodes had been “derailed” and that the show was now in a “holding pattern”. podcast, he said that he admires and misses the writers, who are “beloved and valued members of the Jeopardy! team” but the industrial action has lead to a “changed” Season 40.

Elsewhere, he said that the second and third place prize pots are being increased by $1,000, meaning that second place gets $3,000 and third place getting $2,000. “We understand that post-Covid travel, plans have increased and how complicated funding a trip to Jeopardy! is for many contestants within our community and we think this is way about time,” he said.

 

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