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Fans of 'Jeopardy!' who have watched the show for a long time are threatening to stop watching now that Mayim Bialik and Ken Jennings are sharing hosting duties.
The popular game show announced on Wednesday that Jennings and Bialik would keep their jobs. Jennings will host from September to January, and Bialik will take over from January to the end of the season.
The "Call Me Kat" actress will also host "Celebrity Jeopardy!" and special tournaments, while Jennings will host the "Second Chance Tournament" and the "Tournament of Champions."
Some people didn't like hearing that because both the "Jeopardy!" champion who made history and the "Big Bang Theory" alum have made mistakes and been criticized for them.
When the news was posted on Twitter, it got a lot of responses, and many of them were unhappy that Bialik would be staying.
“Will not be watching @Jeopardy until @KenJennings becomes the primary and only host. This switching stuff sucks! #boycottjeopardy because they have idiots running it. What a mess,” one commenter said.
“Great! I’ll watch through December when Ken hosts. I will not watch any Jeopardy Mayim hosts,” one person weighed in.
“And I am permanently not watching,” another person declared.
“No one is thrilled to see Mayim co-hosting at all, if you’d listen to the people most of us preferred Ken as the full-time host over Mayim Bialik. Watch when viewership goes down when Mayim hosts & then goes up with Ken you guys will regret to co-host crap,” one more user wrote.
“That woman drives me away from the show-and most others I know agree that she’s a mess as host,” one viewer quipped.
However, others said that Jennings is the problem.
“Mayim is way better as a host,” one user wrote. “Ken is not a public speaker let alone a TV host. Trivia nerds and Twitter nerds r the only Jeopardy viewers that prefer Ken, which is a small segment of Jeopardy’s viewership.”
“If Ken was as good as social media says he is, he would have been Sony’s pick by himself,” another stated. “Mayim needs practice. I agree. But she has a far superior Jeopardy voice for reading clues like Alex did. That’s why they picked Mayim.”
“This is a winning hosting team that Alex [Trebek] would be so proud of. Jeopardy is more popular than ever and will have the brightest future including prime time,” another said of the late longtime host.
In other scandal news about "Jeopardy!," all three contestants missed a question last week about Taylor Swift, who has won 11 Grammy Awards, and her hit song "You Need to Calm Down."
The show will start making its 39th season next week.
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