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Ken Jennings will be hosting Jeopardy! <\/em>as it returns for its 40th season.<\/p>\n

The show returns today, September 11, as part of a “changed” season 40, per exec producer Michael Davies.<\/p>\n

There had been confusion as to whether Jennings would host solo or whether Mayim Bialik, who has co-hosted the show, would return given the fact that SAG-AFTRA is on strike.<\/p>\n

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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”.<\/p>\n

Speaking on the Inside Jeopardy!<\/em> podcast, he said that he admires and misses the writers, who are “beloved and valued members of the Jeopardy! <\/em>team” but the industrial action has lead to a “changed” Season 40.<\/p>\n

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 $2,000. “We understand that post-Covid, travel plans have increased and how complicated funding a trip to Jeopardy!<\/em> is for many contestants within our community and we think this is way about time,” he said.<\/p>\n

Former champion Jennings is also hosting Celebrity Jeopardy! <\/em>without Bialik, which returns for its second season on September 27.<\/p>\n

Jeopardy! <\/em>is produced by Sony Pictures Television, distributed domestically by CBS Media Ventures and internationally by Paramount Global Content Distribution.<\/p>\n

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