The Jeopardy! champion took to social media to call out producers of the game show after executive producer Michael Davies revealed on the Inside Jeopardy! podcast that the new season would recycle questions and contestants from the past.
The game show winner then cited the seemingly opposing comments from Davies, adding, “1:00-2:00: Jeopardy’s writers are invaluable and we couldn’t produce the show without them. 2:00-15:00: Here is how we will produce the upcoming season without them.”
“They are beloved and valued members of the Jeopardy! team, just as they value every other member of our team,” he said before listing all the departments within the show. “This really is a family who make this show who’ve been through a lot together over the last few years. And just the respect that everybody holds for each other is something remarkable about this program. And I think it comes across on air.”
After the first couple of minutes of acknowledging the writers like Holzhauer on his social media post, Davies then goes on to explain how Season 40 will move forward amid the writers strike.
Davies said that Season 40’s “original plan” was to “extend the postseason” which would include various tournaments that would’ve lasted about 15-16 weeks.
“The entire staff is committed to producing the best episodes we possibly can,” the EP said. “But I understand that the best episodes that are possible, are episodes that feature our writers writing original material, and the very best contestants, as we’ve always put on the air playing that original material.”
“So we decided that really we needed to invite back and give a second chance in general to players who probably thought that their chance to come back and play on the Alex Trebek Stage had gone forever. So we’re going to open the season with a second chance tournament for players from Season 37, who lost their initial game, and winners from that will advance to a Season 37 and Season 38 champions wildcard,” Davies said of Season 40.
The producer said that it would all culminate in a Tournament of Champions. Another change for the new season is that the new pricing for second and third place would go into effect as of the new season meaning that second place would win $3,000 and third place would get $2,000.
“Because I have no idea of the timing of when this ends when all of this can happen,” Davies added. “It’s tough for me right now to forecast what’s going to happen with the Season 40 postseason, that will take place during Season 41. I have been adamant that I want to do this at the same time. Every year. I got one year of doing that already got derailed. So we will attempt to get back on track. That is my plan. That is my promise.”
Teasing the first part of Season 40, Davies said, “For the Season 37 and Season 38 contestants, the material that we’re going to be using is a combination of material that our WGA writers wrote before the strike, which is still in the database, and material that is being redeployed from multiple, multiple seasons of the show.” Davies noted that Celebrity Jeopardy! is a different situation as everything had already been written before the strike.
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What I think Jeopardy should do is say to the writers that we support you, and will pay you what you are asking for. Then proceed with new shows. The show is hugely financially successful and I am sure they could afford it. That should also act as a template for other companies. I am sure all of them can afford it.
Agree with this assessment. Michael Davies is a nefarious, vain, convincing chump with derivative ideas whose only real skill is listening to his own voice, who will exploit anyone with real talent, and who probably wishes he were better at this game than he is so he could exploit people at the level of Iger and Hastings — but sadly he’s just a guy who got fired from ABC and formed a mediocre company.
Unless James Holzhauser is the owner of Jeopardy than his opinion doesn’t matter. Plus, if there is any show in existence that can replace their writing staff with AI immediately it’s a trivia show. I could prompt ChatGPT to write 1000 episodes of Jeopardy questions in 5 minutes. I hope the production company tells him to stuff it.
Question: What Nobel Prize-winning physicist is known for his development of the theory of general relativity, which revolutionized our understanding of gravity and the fabric of spacetime?
Not only is it a question instead of an answer, but it’s a first-grade level question. It also fails to give a subtle secondary clue as all Jeopardy answers give, which is a big part of the fun of these questions.
Jeopardy clues are riddles, not boring trivia questions. And it’s why Jeopardy has endured. AI cannot come up with new jokes or trivia questions because it only has previous ones to copy off. AI is incapable of inventing new ideas by definition. Your ire for workers is disgusting, one of the most morally repugnant stances you could possibly take.
First you have to input some examples of the Jeopardy question format, and then you can prompt it to generate questions in that same style. Might take a couple minutes of tinkering, but one AI-prompter (could be a lone staff writer or producer) can easily do the job of a whole team of writers. I’m not trying to sound callous, but I learn to accept the reality of a situation quickly. This IS how things will be done going forward so there’s really no point in wasting your time to stop it. AI is inevitable.
First you have to input some examples of the Jeopardy question format, and then you can prompt it to generate questions in that same style. Might take a couple minutes of tinkering, but one AI-prompter (could be a lone staff writer or producer) can easily do the job of a whole team of writers. I’m not trying to sound callous, but I learn to accept the reality of a situation quickly. This IS how things will be done going forward so there’s really no point in wasting your time to stop it. AI is inevitable.
No no, all that was proved was that someone doesn’t know how to properly write a LMM AI prompt. It’s kinda easy really, give it every episode to train on, then you have it replicate the style with it’s knowledge of… everything. It can easily filter out answer/questions to previously used one (or ones even like it) in a few minutes.
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