‘Jeopardy!’ producer blasts fans’ treatment of Mayim Bialik, Ken Jennings
nypost.comtold Vulture in an interview published Thursday. “Alex made it his own, but it wasn’t his own the first couple of years,” he continued, referring to the show’s longtime host, Alex Trebek, who died in 2020 at 80. “A lot of what happened on ‘Jeopardy!’ came from him possessing this job for so long.
I do read everything, and look, the strongest thing we’ve got is the passion of our fans.”He continued, explaining that he wished fans would be “more patient” with both Bialik and Jennings.“I wish many of our fans were more patient in understanding that we’re dealing with two hosts,” Davies said. “Mayim is a very experienced actress.
Ken is a very experienced ‘Jeopardy!’player. They’re both at the beginning of their hosting careers. There’s an idea that I hold absolute power in making decisions around Jeopardy!, but I don’t.”Davies also answered a question regarding whether he’d ever gotten a sense that fans prefer one host versus the other.“I couldn’t give you an absolute number.
We read data from everywhere,” he said. “In terms of the tiny percentage of our audience that do go on Reddit or Twitter, there are Ken fans and there are Mayim fans.
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