“The Huge Bang Idea” actor Mayim Bialik and former champion Ken Jennings will host “Jeopardy!” by means of the tip of the yr, the tv recreation present introduced Thursday.
Starting Monday, Bialik will host “a number of weeks of episodes, which can air by means of November 5,” a press launch said.
Bialik and Jennings will then cut up internet hosting duties.
The information comes practically a month after Mike Richards stepped down as Alex Trebek’s substitute and weeks after it was introduced that Richards would not function govt producer of “Jeopardy!” and “Wheel of Fortune” following scrutiny over resurfaced discrimination lawsuits and previous feedback he made about ladies, Jews and poor individuals.
Richards, Bialik and Jennings have been amongst a number of visitor hosts who helmed the syndicated recreation present after Trebek died in November from pancreatic most cancers. The present introduced in August that Richards had been chosen as the brand new day by day host, however the information was shortly met with intense social media backlash adopted by Richard’s detractors digging up two lawsuits he was concerned in.
In one of many fits, a former mannequin for “The Worth Is Proper” alleged she was fired after she grew to become pregnant. The mannequin, Brandi Cochran, stated Richards handled her otherwise after she introduced she was pregnant in 2008. Richards was not listed as a defendant within the case which went to trial. It was finally resolved after a jury awarded Cochran greater than $8 million however the award was overturned by a Los Angeles County Superior Courtroom choose, paperwork present. Cochran and the defendants settled out of courtroom.
A second lawsuit accused Richards of treating one other mannequin for the sport present otherwise than the opposite fashions. Lanisha Cole, who labored at “The Worth Is Proper,” filed the go well with in opposition to Richards, a producer and Fremantle Media. Richards was later dropped as a defendant and the go well with was settled in 2013, in line with The Each day Beast.
The firestorm concentrating on Richards intensified after The Ringer’s Claire McNear reported that Richards made disparaging feedback about ladies, Jews, poor individuals and Haiti seven years in the past, whereas internet hosting a podcast known as “The Randumb Present.”
Richards denied any wrongdoing within the lawsuits and apologized for the feedback he made on the podcast.
Final month, he stated in an announcement that it had change into clear that transferring ahead with the “Jeopardy!” gig “can be an excessive amount of of a distraction for our followers and never the suitable transfer for the present.”
“I need to apologize to every of you for the undesirable damaging consideration that has come to ‘Jeopardy!’ over the previous few weeks and for the confusion and delays that is now inflicting. I do know I’ve numerous work to do to regain your belief and confidence,” Richards stated in his assertion.
