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James Holzhauer is taking goal at Jeopardy! producers after they introduced that Season 40 of the present would proceed amid the writers strike.
The Jeopardy! champion took to social media to name out producers of the sport present after govt producer Michael Davies revealed on the Inside Jeopardy! podcast that the brand new season would recycle questions and contestants from the previous.
“If you happen to don’t have time to pay attention, right here’s the manager abstract of immediately’s announcement,” Holzhauer posted on X, previously often known as Twitter.
The sport present winner then cited the seemingly opposing feedback from Davies, including, “1:00-2:00: Jeopardy’s writers are invaluable and we couldn’t produce the present with out them. 2:00-15:00: Right here is how we’ll produce the upcoming season with out them.”
In the course of the latest episode of Inside Jeopardy!, Davies mentioned on the high of the podcast that he admired and missed the writers of the present.
“They’re beloved and valued members of the Jeopardy! staff, simply as they worth each different member of our staff,” he mentioned earlier than itemizing all of the departments throughout the present. “This actually is a household who make this present who’ve been via quite a bit collectively over the previous couple of years. And simply the respect that everyone holds for one another is one thing exceptional about this program. And I feel it comes throughout on air.”
After the primary couple of minutes of acknowledging the writers like Holzhauer on his social media publish, Davies then goes on to elucidate how Season 40 will transfer ahead amid the writers strike.
Davies mentioned that Season 40’s “authentic plan” was to “prolong the postseason” which would come with varied tournaments that may’ve lasted about 15-16 weeks.
“The complete workers is dedicated to producing the very best episodes we probably can,” the EP mentioned. “However I perceive that the very best episodes which can be attainable, are episodes that characteristic our writers writing authentic materials, and the perfect contestants, as we’ve at all times placed on the air enjoying that authentic materials.”
Davies mentioned he realized that the postseason with Match of Champions must be postponed till the writers returned “and be capable to write authentic materials that the match deserves.”
“So we determined that basically we wanted to ask again and provides a second probability normally to gamers who most likely thought that their probability to return again and play on the Alex Trebek Stage had gone eternally. So we’re going to open the season with a second probability match for gamers from Season 37, who misplaced their preliminary recreation, and winners from that can advance to a Season 37 and Season 38 champions wildcard,” Davies mentioned of Season 40.
The producer mentioned that it will all culminate in a Match of Champions. One other change for the brand new season is that the brand new pricing for second and third place would go into impact as of the brand new season which means that second place would win $3,000 and third place would get $2,000.
“As a result of I don’t know of the timing of when this ends when all of this could occur,” Davies added. “It’s robust for me proper now to forecast what’s going to occur with the Season 40 postseason, that can happen throughout Season 41. I’ve been adamant that I need to do that on the similar time. Yearly. I acquired one 12 months of doing that already acquired derailed. So we’ll try and get again on observe. That’s my plan. That’s my promise.”
Teasing the primary a part of Season 40, Davies mentioned, “For the Season 37 and Season 38 contestants, the fabric that we’re going to be utilizing is a mix of fabric that our WGA writers wrote earlier than the strike, which remains to be within the database, and materials that’s being redeployed from a number of, a number of seasons of the present.” Davies famous that Celeb Jeopardy! is a unique state of affairs as every little thing had already been written earlier than the strike.
