Mayim Bialik leaves ‘Jeopardy!’ early: Why Ken Jennings is taking up

The present should go on – however this time, with out Mayim Bialik.

The “Jeopardy!” host has exited the present in its ultimate week of filming Season 39 in help of the continuing Writers Guild of America strike, according to Deadline.

Ken Jennings is about to tackle internet hosting duties in her place, in keeping with the outlet, and they’re going to end out filming for the season Could 19.

The present is produced by Sony Photos Tv.

The Put up reached out to Bialik and Sony for additional remark.

On Could 2, the WGA mentioned members had been happening strike in an effort to petition for greater wages, a greater pay construction to incorporate streaming providers and regulation round article intelligence.

The WGA is made up of an alliance of two labor unions that symbolize greater than 11,000 writers within the leisure business, according to “Today.”

In consequence, well-liked reveals corresponding to “Jimmy Kimmel Dwell!” and “The Late Present With Stephen Colbert” have shut down manufacturing.

The upcoming Tony Awards on June 11 may be canceled.

It’s the first Hollywood strike in 15 years – the final one was in 2008 and lasted for 100 days.

Because the walkout kicked off, many writers have spoken up, together with “Jeopardy!” writers Michele Loud and Billy Wisse.

“Our phrases are on the display each night time,” Loud told Variety. “There is no such thing as a ‘Jeopardy!’ with out writers. With out us, it’s simply an empty blue display.” 

In the course of the interview, the writers defined that whereas they had been grateful for his or her regular, year-round jobs on the sport present, they had been disillusioned with the present state of the tv and movie business and the modifications that might lie forward.

“They by no means tried to make it a gig economic system earlier than,” Wisse instructed the outlet. “There was all the time some sense that writers had been companions in it.”

In keeping with Deadline, the sport present is a WGA program, however the questions requested on the present had been written earlier than the season — and the strike — started.

In August 2021, Bialik took over internet hosting “Jeopardy!” in tandem with Jennings.

It’s the most-watched present in syndication, grabbing an viewers of about 9 million individuals weekly, Deadline reported.

Final January, the present was renewed by the 2027 to 2028 season.

Bialik took over internet hosting after Alex Trebek died in November 2020 at 80.

Nevertheless, not everybody has been a fan of Bialik since her time on the present.

In February, followers had been offended over this season’s internet hosting schedule, as they’d break up duties throughout the season.

“Jeopardy, cease attempting to make Mayim occur,” one individual raged on Twitter. “It’s not going to occur.”