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Jeopardy! Just Announced Who Will Host The Show In 2022

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Jeopardy! fans finally got a straight answer on who holds the podium through next summer.

More than a year after Alex Trebek’s death, “Jeopardy!” has settled its hosting chaos — at least for now. Sony Pictures Television confirmed that Mayim Bialik and Ken Jennings will keep splitting hosting duties on the syndicated show through the end of Season 38, pushing any decision on a single permanent host into the fall of 2022. It’s the calmest the show’s succession plan has looked since Trebek’s passing in November 2020.

• On December 8, 2021, Sony Pictures Television and “Jeopardy!” announced Bialik and Jennings will continue alternating as co-hosts through the end of Season 38, which runs through July 29, 2022.
• Michael Davies was confirmed to stay on as the show’s interim executive producer alongside the co-hosting arrangement.
• The move comes after Mike Richards resigned as host following just one week of taping Season 38, once past controversial comments and discrimination lawsuits resurfaced, and was subsequently fired as executive producer.

The Announcement Sony Made

Sony’s statement effectively tabled the search for a full-time replacement for Trebek until at least the fall of 2022, giving the show a stretch of predictability it hasn’t had since he died of pancreatic cancer. Bialik and Jennings will keep trading off on the daily syndicated episodes, with Davies overseeing production in his interim executive producer role. Season 38’s run through July 29, 2022 gives the arrangement a defined runway rather than an open-ended guessing game.

Season 37 Unraveling Explained

The road to this point was messy. After Trebek’s death, “Jeopardy!” cycled through a parade of guest hosts — Aaron Rodgers, Katie Couric, Dr. Mehmet Oz, LeVar Burton and others — before executive producer Mike Richards was named the permanent daily host in August 2021, with Bialik carved out for primetime specials and events like the “Jeopardy! National College Championship.” That plan collapsed almost immediately.

Richards lasted one week of taping Season 38 before he was out as host — and soon after, out as executive producer too.

Old comments and discrimination lawsuits tied to Richards resurfaced publicly, and the backlash moved fast enough that he resigned as host after just a week behind the podium, then lost his EP job not long after. It was one of several controversial moments from 2021 that forced a scramble, and it’s what pushed producers back to the guest-host pool for a fix.

Jennings And Bialik Split The Load

That fix arrived in September 2021, when Jennings and Bialik were brought in to alternate hosting the daily syndicated episodes for the rest of the calendar year. Jennings isn’t a stranger to the “Jeopardy!” set — he’s the record-holding 74-game champion and the winner of the 2020 “Greatest of All Time” tournament, and he’d already been working as a consulting producer on the show. Bialik, known for “The Big Bang Theory” and “Blossom” and a real-life Ph.D. in neuroscience, has been juggling the hosting gig with her lead role on the Fox sitcom “Call Me Kat.”

The December extension simply locks that tag-team setup in for months to come rather than leaving it as a stopgap. Between the co-hosting rotation and the steady stream of standout contestants keeping ratings buzzing this season — the kind of storylines “Jeopardy!” has generated all year — the show has managed to stay a daily habit for viewers even without a single face behind the podium.

Fall 2022 Timeline Implications

By tying the arrangement to Season 38’s July 29, 2022 finish, Sony bought itself real time to vet a permanent choice without the pressure that torpedoed the Richards hire. Nothing in the announcement rules Bialik or Jennings out from eventually landing the job full-time — it just means nobody has to answer that question until after next summer.

For now, tune in and you’ll get Jennings some weeks, Bialik others, both reading the same clues from the same podium Trebek held for 37 years, with Michael Davies still running the show behind the curtain. Season 38 plays out that way through July 29, 2022 — and the “who hosts Jeopardy! forever” question doesn’t reopen until the fall.