Mayim Bialik will not be hosting the ultimate week of Jeopardy! because of the ongoing Hollywood writers strike.
Deadline and Vulture report Bialik might be sitting out the final week of Season 39 — which is scheduled to shoot on the Sony Pictures lot in Culver City between May 16 and May 19 — in solidarity with the striking writers. However, Jeopardy! will proceed with Ken Jennings, who shares co-hosting duties with Bialik, taking up as host for these exhibits.
Jeopardy! makes use of Writers Guild of America (WGA) writers for the sport clues. Those writers — together with Michele Loud, Jim Rhine and Billy Wisse — have been on strike with the WGA since May 1. This doubtless is not apparent but to viewers as a result of the present tapes in advance. The writers have additionally banked clues properly into the longer term in order that manufacturing may proceed.
Yahoo Entertainment has reached out to reps for Bialik and Sony Pictures Entertainment for remark.
Bialik and Jennings cut up hosting duties this season for the most-watched present in syndication. He did the primary half, from August to December, after which she took over in January. So he’ll now shut out the season earlier than they break for summer season.
Viewers did get to see Bialik on Wednesday’s Celebrity Wheel of Fortune. She competed in opposition to Jennings and the present’s personal Vanna White for the pre-taped particular version of the present. Maggie Sajak, daughter of host Pat Sajak, stuffed in for White.
There’s been so much occurring for Bialik for the time being. Her Fox comedy, Call Me Kat, was canceled earlier this month. She wrote on social media that it was “so hard to say goodbye” to the present that ran for 3 seasons.
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