{"id":37831,"date":"2021-08-24T03:23:22","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T21:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/jeopardy-ignored-alex-trebeks-choices-for-a-successor-didnt-even-give-them-auditions\/"},"modified":"2021-08-24T03:23:28","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T21:53:28","slug":"jeopardy-ignored-alex-trebeks-choices-for-a-successor-didnt-even-give-them-auditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/jeopardy-ignored-alex-trebeks-choices-for-a-successor-didnt-even-give-them-auditions\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cJeopardy!\u201d Ignored Alex Trebek\u2019s Choices for a Successor, Didn\u2019t Even Give Them Auditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-85909\">&#13;<\/p>\n<header>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<div itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/WebPage\" class=\"entry-crumbs\">Home <span class=\"td-sp td-sp-breadcrumb-arrow td-bread-sep\"\/> Television <span class=\"td-sp td-sp-breadcrumb-arrow td-bread-sep\"\/> <span>\u201cJeopardy!\u201d Ignored Alex Trebek\u2019s Choices for a Successor, Didn\u2019t Even Give Them&#8230;<\/span><\/div>\n<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n            <\/header>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"thumb-wrap\"><\/div>\n<p><input class=\"jpibfi\" type=\"hidden\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The producers of \u201cJeopardy!\u201d and Sony TV obviously didn\u2019t care what Alex Trebek thought about who should succeed him as host of the game show.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, Trebek told TMZ\u2019s Harvey Levin on the air that he\u2019d suggested <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2018\/07\/30\/alex-trebek-jeopardy-replacement-alex-faust-kings-hockey\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">two people<\/a> to the show. These ideas obviously fell on deaf ears.<\/p>\n<p>One was Los Angeles King announcer <strong>Alex Faust<\/strong>, who would have been competition for EP Mike Richards. Faust is a young, good looking white guy. Whoops! That\u2019s what Richards thought he was himself!<\/p>\n<p>The other was CNN legal analyst <strong>Laura Coates, <\/strong>a Black woman who is smart, intelligent, and articulate.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone forgot about this interview, it was all forgotten, and Sony TV didn\u2019t even ask these people to do a week\u2019s worth of shows. Instead we got people like Dr. Oz, and both Good Morning America hosts, neither of whom could have done the show anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Now we\u2019re in this weird situation with Richards out. Ken Jennings is who I was told producers expected to choose last winter before Richards took over the process and rigged the competition in his favor. Some insiders also speculate the Mayim Bialik was on track for the job but her current Fox sitcom precluded her doing it full time.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting that Trebek\u2019s wishes were ignored, and a whole new marketing shpiel was introduced. What a shitshow.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Alex Faust prepares for NHL All-Star broadcast\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WkWEqTBxhTE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Laura Coates\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Eh6MOhG-suY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<footer class=\"clearfix\">&#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"author-box-wrap\">\n<h5 class=\"h5-caps-title\">Author<\/h5>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/21e5ba9a17931f5b774c4f9755d50a7c?s=106&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/21e5ba9a17931f5b774c4f9755d50a7c?s=212&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g 2x\" class=\"avatar avatar-106 photo\" height=\"106\" width=\"106\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"desc\">\n<p>Roger Friedman began his Showbiz411 column in April 2009 after 10 years with Fox News, where he created the Fox411 column.  He wrote the Intelligencer column for NY Magazine in the mid 90s, reporting on the OJ Simpson trial, as well as for the real Parade magazine (when it was owned by Conde Nast), and has written for the New York Observer, Details, Vogue, Spin, the New York Times, NY Post, Washington Post, and NY Daily News among many publications. He is the writer and co-producer of &#8220;Only the Strong Survive,&#8221; a selection of the Cannes, Sundance, and Telluride Film festivals, directed by DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-articles\">More articles from author<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<p>&#13;\n        <\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&appId=249643311490&version=v2.3\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Home Television \u201cJeopardy!\u201d Ignored Alex Trebek\u2019s Choices for a Successor, Didn\u2019t Even Give Them&#8230; &#13; &#13; The producers of \u201cJeopardy!\u201d and &#8230; <a title=\"\u201cJeopardy!\u201d Ignored Alex Trebek\u2019s Choices for a Successor, Didn\u2019t Even Give Them Auditions\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/jeopardy-ignored-alex-trebeks-choices-for-a-successor-didnt-even-give-them-auditions\/\" aria-label=\"More on \u201cJeopardy!\u201d Ignored Alex Trebek\u2019s Choices for a Successor, Didn\u2019t Even Give Them Auditions\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":37832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37831"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}