‘Jeopardy!’ fans afraid new season 40 episodes won’t happen due to WGA writers strike

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Reddit user said regarding the show’s fate.The WGA is a labor union that represents writers for movies, television, documentaries and most forms of recorded media, who have recently been on strike to advocate for improved streaming royalties and protections against AI taking their jobs.

Fellow confused “Jeopardy!” fans responded to the show’s uncertainty online.“If the strike continues into the fall TV season, there won’t be any Jeopardy!

at all,” another worried fan responded in the thread.A few fans suggested that the showrunners rerun questions from old episodes, but others rejected the idea. “They aren’t going to recycle questions verbatim from the archives.

I know “Jeopardy!” recycles a lot of questions, but they always change something, and that involves writers, and they can’t just have producers do that work.”The show is typically taped two months in advance, which means under normal circumstances the 40th season would currently be in full production.The strike comes at an inconvenient time for all of Hollywood, but especially for “Jeopardy!” as the show has undergone many changes sinceiconic host Alex Trebek died following his battle with pancreatic cancer in November 2020.Actress Mayim Bialik, who had been alternating host responsibilities with Ken Jennings since last summer, left during the show’s final week of filming in May to stand in solidarity with the writers, according to Deadline.