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Title: "Pop Culture Jeopardy" and "Wish List Games" coming to Amazon Prime
Post by: colonial on May 14, 2024, 08:42:07 AM
Amazon Prime has been quite busy with game shows lately. First it was the U.S. take on "The 1% Club" followed by Travis Kelce helming a "5th Grader" reboot. Now this ...

https://deadline.com/2024/05/prime-video-pop-culture-jeopardy-1235914898/

Based on the description, this sounds like Michael Davies's "World Series of Pop Culture" with a "Jeopardy" bow on top. No word on host, actual format or premiere.


We also have "Wish List Games" coming to Prime as well ...

https://deadline.com/2024/05/amazon-unscripted-series-orders-1235914915/

Hosted by Nick Cannon with the assistance of "influencer" Lele Pons (as I'm old, I don't know who that is. I'm pretty sure this person is not one of Cannon's 75 or so kids), this show has contestants competing to win everything on their Amazon Wish List, up to $25,000. And the show is 30 minutes in length, per Deadline.


JD
Title: Re: "Pop Culture Jeopardy" and "Wish List Games" coming to Amazon Prime
Post by: BrandonFG on May 14, 2024, 10:53:14 AM
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The show will launch in more than 240 countries and territories. It’s a new twist on the classic gameshow and will focus on categories from alternative rock to The Avengers, from Broadway to MMA and Gen Z to Zendaya.
Welp. There goes my chances. :P

/Still plan to try out
Title: Re: "Pop Culture Jeopardy" and "Wish List Games" coming to Amazon Prime
Post by: Joe Mello on May 14, 2024, 12:48:08 PM
Based on the description, this sounds like Michael Davies's "World Series of Pop Culture" with a "Jeopardy" bow on top. No word on host, actual format or premiere.
My reactive thought was a three-round game with each round dedicated to either music, movies, or TV and played by one member of each team.
Title: Re: "Pop Culture Jeopardy" and "Wish List Games" coming to Amazon Prime
Post by: snowpeck on May 14, 2024, 12:50:55 PM
Amazon Prime has been quite busy with game shows lately. First it was the U.S. take on "The 1% Club" followed by Travis Kelce helming a "5th Grader" reboot. Now this ...

https://deadline.com/2024/05/prime-video-pop-culture-jeopardy-1235914898/

Based on the description, this sounds like Michael Davies's "World Series of Pop Culture" with a "Jeopardy" bow on top. No word on host, actual format or premiere.

This has been out there for a few days apparently: https://stg.jeopardy.com/be-on-j/pop-culture
Title: Re: "Pop Culture Jeopardy" and "Wish List Games" coming to Amazon Prime
Post by: BrandonFG on May 14, 2024, 02:11:06 PM
Anyone having trouble logging in? It says my email/password are invalid, it won't let me log in using Facebook, and I have yet to receive a reset password email. Wonder if the site isn't as ready as they thought?
Title: Re: "Pop Culture Jeopardy" and "Wish List Games" coming to Amazon Prime
Post by: aaron sica on May 14, 2024, 02:18:51 PM
Anyone having trouble logging in? It says my email/password are invalid, it won't let me log in using Facebook, and I have yet to receive a reset password email. Wonder if the site isn't as ready as they thought?

I experienced the same things. I made a new account and  that seemed to work.
Title: Re: "Pop Culture Jeopardy" and "Wish List Games" coming to Amazon Prime
Post by: BrandonFG on May 14, 2024, 02:30:29 PM
Anyone having trouble logging in? It says my email/password are invalid, it won't let me log in using Facebook, and I have yet to receive a reset password email. Wonder if the site isn't as ready as they thought?

I experienced the same things. I made a new account and  that seemed to work.
Damn...now the site is down altogether. I guess they didn't expect as much of a response. I'll try again later tonight.
Title: Re: "Pop Culture Jeopardy" and "Wish List Games" coming to Amazon Prime
Post by: snowpeck on May 14, 2024, 02:53:43 PM
It might not actually be ready for applications yet. Seems like it might be some sort of testing site. It came up high in a Google search for Pop Culture Jeopardy though.
Title: Re: "Pop Culture Jeopardy" and "Wish List Games" coming to Amazon Prime
Post by: DoItRockapella on May 15, 2024, 05:23:39 PM
Applications for Pop Culture Jeopardy appear to be officially open now:

https://www.jeopardy.com/be-on-j/pop-culture

I would totally apply for this if it were individual contestants, but I could never find two other people who would want to be on a team with me.
Title: Re: "Pop Culture Jeopardy" and "Wish List Games" coming to Amazon Prime
Post by: tpirfan28 on July 31, 2024, 04:22:31 PM
Our Pop Culture Jeopardy host is Colin Jost (https://x.com/jeopardy/status/1818740604077293713?s=46&t=FEyHQln9qANNcrEBwHjOaw) (SNL/Weekend Update).
Title: Re: "Pop Culture Jeopardy" and "Wish List Games" coming to Amazon Prime
Post by: BrandonFG on July 31, 2024, 05:03:55 PM
So I take it Mayim is more or less out in the Jeopardy! Cinematic Universe? I figured she was a natural fit, being both a sitcom star and former host who they were keeping on the back burner for future projects.
Title: Re: "Pop Culture Jeopardy" and "Wish List Games" coming to Amazon Prime
Post by: clemon79 on July 31, 2024, 07:01:11 PM
So I take it Mayim is more or less out in the Jeopardy! Cinematic Universe? I figured she was a natural fit, being both a sitcom star and former host who they were keeping on the back burner for future projects.

She never got any better.

She was decent....for one of the fill-in non-game-show-host hosts. I think the expectation was that, tag-teaming with Ken, they would both improve. Ken did, by leaps and bounds. She...didn't.

Her refusal to cross a picket line that, while wearing that particular hat, she was fine to cross, just gave them the excuse they needed to let her go.
Title: Re: "Pop Culture Jeopardy" and "Wish List Games" coming to Amazon Prime
Post by: DoItRockapella on August 10, 2024, 08:37:18 AM
OCA now lists tape dates for Pop Culture Jeopardy. They'll begin taping on August 17 (one week from when I am typing this), and will tape the entire season over ten taping days from August 17-29.

https://on-camera-audiences.com/shows/Pop_Culture_Jeopardy

It should be noted that while the dates are listed, tickets don't actually seem to be available yet.

Good luck to them?
Title: Re: "Pop Culture Jeopardy" and "Wish List Games" coming to Amazon Prime
Post by: tvwxman on August 12, 2024, 07:55:34 AM
OCA now lists tape dates for Pop Culture Jeopardy. They'll begin taping on August 17 (one week from when I am typing this), and will tape the entire season over ten taping days from August 17-29.

I would imagine with Colin head-writin' on SNL, his availablity is somewhat limited....
Title: Re: "Pop Culture Jeopardy" and "Wish List Games" coming to Amazon Prime
Post by: Joe Mello on August 12, 2024, 01:06:26 PM
OCA now lists tape dates for Pop Culture Jeopardy. They'll begin taping on August 17 (one week from when I am typing this), and will tape the entire season over ten taping days from August 17-29.

I would imagine with Colin head-writin' on SNL, his availablity is somewhat limited....
I don't think it's been said what the format or episode order was. Not that I think this is the format, but you could do an 81-team single-knockout tournament in 40 matches, which would easily fit in that range.
Title: Re: "Pop Culture Jeopardy" and "Wish List Games" coming to Amazon Prime
Post by: DoItRockapella on August 14, 2024, 06:28:37 PM
Checked OCA again - tickets for Pop Culture Jeopardy are available now.

I don't think it's been said what the format or episode order was. Not that I think this is the format, but you could do an 81-team single-knockout tournament in 40 matches, which would easily fit in that range.

I actually think that IS the format. Michael Davies said on a recent episode of the Inside Jeopardy podcast that there will be twenty-seven first round matches with three teams in each, which would mean eighty-one teams and forty episodes.
Title: Re: "Pop Culture Jeopardy" and "Wish List Games" coming to Amazon Prime
Post by: Bob Zager on September 10, 2024, 12:32:03 PM
Here is a shot of the set:

(click just the large "spoiler" box)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Jeopardy/comments/1fd07m6/pop_culture_jeopardy_set/#lightbox 
Title: Re: "Pop Culture Jeopardy" and "Wish List Games" coming to Amazon Prime
Post by: Bob Zager on September 16, 2024, 01:26:51 PM
A hint of some possible set changes on regular J!:

https://postlmg.cc/jCD8vnTv

It's a bit difficult to tell, but I think the game board is a single, seam-free screen, and (definitely),  the single screen, between Ken and the contestants is positioned higher and appears to have a middle positioned support, not two supports holding it.  Something looks different on the contestant stands sides, too!
Title: Re: "Pop Culture Jeopardy" and "Wish List Games" coming to Amazon Prime
Post by: MSTieScott on September 16, 2024, 07:02:13 PM
Presumably both versions of Jeopardy! tape in the same studio, so it makes sense that major set changes would carry over.

If you compare the above pictures to the floor we currently see on air (here are two (https://katiecouric.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Jeopardy-WEB.png) recent (https://www.jeopardy.com/sites/default/files/styles/jbuzz_article_teaser/public/2023-09/JEP40_0915_JBuzz_OOS_Featured_Image_1600x900%20(1).jpg) images), you can see that they've filled in the area between the host's position and the game board so there's no longer a sticky-outy part.
Title: Re: "Pop Culture Jeopardy" and "Wish List Games" coming to Amazon Prime
Post by: Matt Ottinger on September 16, 2024, 09:53:33 PM
d so there's no longer a sticky-outy part.

Scott, please remember that a lot of us aren't in the industry.  We'd appreciate it if you wouldn't use technical terms.
Title: Re: "Pop Culture Jeopardy" and "Wish List Games" coming to Amazon Prime
Post by: Hastin on September 17, 2024, 11:40:00 AM
Really hope the extended area in front of the podiums means that Ken can walk up to the contestants for interviews. The COVID-era blocking of him only being able to stand in front the screen was starting to feel weird 4+ years later, especially during the "final chat".

(Personally hoping the removed "sticky-outy part" means that he can do Final J! from the game board like the Alex days.)
Title: Re: "Pop Culture Jeopardy" and "Wish List Games" coming to Amazon Prime
Post by: clemon79 on September 17, 2024, 02:57:17 PM
(Personally hoping the removed "sticky-outy part" means that he can do Final J! from the game board like the Alex days.)

I kinda prefer Final Jeopardy from Ken's Personal Screen, otherwise, what's the point of having a Personal Screen? (I'm assuming video clues play from there as well.)

Hell, if we're gonna go big and the gameboard is seam-free, let's do FJ there, and use the WHOLE DAMN THING. "Here's the clue." BOOM.
Title: Re: "Pop Culture Jeopardy" and "Wish List Games" coming to Amazon Prime
Post by: JasonA1 on September 17, 2024, 03:39:11 PM
I kinda prefer Final Jeopardy from Ken's Personal Screen, otherwise, what's the point of having a Personal Screen? (I'm assuming video clues play from there as well.)

Last I saw, they play on the monitor below the player scoreboards you see in the photo here (https://www.jeopardy.com/jbuzz/behind-scenes/7-things-you-dont-see-jeopardy-set). That picture's pre-COVID, but you get the gist.

-Jason
Title: Re: "Pop Culture Jeopardy" and "Wish List Games" coming to Amazon Prime
Post by: bwood on September 26, 2024, 04:18:07 PM
Pop Culture Jeopardy debuts December 4th as a part of "Winning Wednesdays".

https://www.tvinsider.com/gallery/pop-culture-jeopardy-premiere-date-release-schedule-host-set-photos/

Title: Re: "Pop Culture Jeopardy" and "Wish List Games" coming to Amazon Prime
Post by: Bob Zager on October 02, 2024, 11:07:23 AM
Here are new pics of the both the regular series and Pop Culture sets:

https://i.imgur.com/4f9RbrU.jpeg

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fmore-pop-culture-jeopardy-set-images-v0-civpozpdm2sd1.jpg%3Fwidth%3D1080%26crop%3Dsmart%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3Dbf4aa67f08fb10b2f5777de914a39d0795e7f428
Title: Re: "Pop Culture Jeopardy" and "Wish List Games" coming to Amazon Prime
Post by: Jeremy Nelson on October 02, 2024, 12:41:49 PM
Here are new pics of the both the regular series and Pop Culture sets:

https://i.imgur.com/4f9RbrU.jpeg

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fmore-pop-culture-jeopardy-set-images-v0-civpozpdm2sd1.jpg%3Fwidth%3D1080%26crop%3Dsmart%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3Dbf4aa67f08fb10b2f5777de914a39d0795e7f428
Nice updates, but still a little bit of a letdown considering they hyped up a "new set" on the podcast and this is essentially another half step. Really was hoping those giant letters from Pop Culture made their way over to the regular set.
Title: Re: "Pop Culture Jeopardy" and "Wish List Games" coming to Amazon Prime
Post by: gameshowfan2001 on October 03, 2024, 11:27:45 PM
Definitely looking forward to Pop Culture Jeopardy. I love Colin on Weekend Update.
Title: Re: "Pop Culture Jeopardy" and "Wish List Games" coming to Amazon Prime
Post by: bwood on December 30, 2024, 09:04:35 AM
Here are new pics of the both the regular series and Pop Culture sets:

https://i.imgur.com/4f9RbrU.jpeg

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fmore-pop-culture-jeopardy-set-images-v0-civpozpdm2sd1.jpg%3Fwidth%3D1080%26crop%3Dsmart%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3Dbf4aa67f08fb10b2f5777de914a39d0795e7f428
Nice updates, but still a little bit of a letdown considering they hyped up a "new set" on the podcast and this is essentially another half step. Really was hoping those giant letters from Pop Culture made their way over to the regular set.

According to a promo for the Second Chance Tourney on FB, the large letters from PCJ! Are carrying over to the Syndicated version. I think it was a sponsored ad and not on the actual FB page yet.