Broadcast journalists Anderson Cooper and Savannah Guthrie, along with doctors Sanjay Gupta and Mehmet Oz will be stepping up to the Jeopardy! hosting podium that once belonged to the late Alex Trebek.
Cooper is currently the anchor of CNN’s Anderson 360, while Guthrie is anchor of NBC News’ morning show, Today. Gupta, a neurosurgeon, is CNN’s chief medical correspondent, while Oz – who has invited controversy for his promotion of pseudoscience and alternative medicine – is the host of The Doctor Oz Show.
Jeopardy! was originally hosted by Trebek, who, through the decades, became the face of the long-running game show. He died on November 8, 2020, after a battle with pancreatic cancer.
New episodes are currently hosted by Ken Jennings, who holds the title of Jeopardy!‘s Greatest of All Time, and is also a consulting producer.
Hosting duties will then be rotated among a roster of guests that now includes Cooper, Guthrie, Oz, and Gupta, as well as broadcaster Katie Couric, Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, 60 Minutes correspondent Bill Whitaker, Big Bang Theory star and neuroscientist Mayim Bialik, and Jeopardy! executive producer Mika Richards.
Sony Pictures Television, which produces the show, will be making a donation to each guest host’s chosen charity equivalent to the cumulative winnings of the contestants who play for the weeks that they host. – Rappler.com
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