Jeopardy!'s showrunner, Michael Davies, revealed that the game show will move forward with season 40 by reusing old questions and former contestants amid the ongoing writers' strike.
, revealed that the game show will move forward with season 40 by reusing old questions and former contestants amid the ongoing writers’ strike.
“I believe, principally, that it would not be fair to have new contestants making their first appearance on the Alex Trebek Stage, doing it with non-original material, or as we’ll talk about a combination of non-original material and material that was written pre-strike,” said Davies on the Monday, August 7, episode of his “
” podcast. “And so we decided that really we needed to invite back and give a second chance in general to players who probably thought that their chance to come back and play on the Alex Trebek Stage had gone forever.”before the strike occurredBefore the Writer’s Guild of America strike started in May, the show initially planned on doing its annual “Tournament of Champions.
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