Ken Jennings on the future of Jeopardy!
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The Tension Between Keeping Loyal Fans and Bringing in New People Who Didn't Grow Up With This Show
It's largely a legacy. We have 60 years of goodwill if you go back to art Fleming and if you just do the Alex Trebek years that's 1984. So we were trying to figure out the actual audience. You know nothing's really bigger than jeopardy or wheel unless it's got the quarterback which is insane That this is now the last remnants of American monoculture. And we're the last man standing really because there's no more Cronkitesthere's no more CarsonThere's no more agreed upon there's SNL and there's that jeopardy wheel hour, he says.
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