I was an America's Team member on two episodes of Trivial Pursuit: America Plays, specifically the October 31, 2008 episode is relevant here.  Through the entire game before the final round, the contestants shut out America's Team.  The winning contestant was in a situation to win a nice bundle of cash for the last 3 questions of the final round.

Let's just say with my $765 share, one item I bought was an XBox 360.

This is a show that I’m still bummed I waited too late to submit anything. I also wonder if they were about a half-decade too early with the technology?

How about Jim Tracy, the contestant in the pilot for Bill Cullen's short-lived Blankety Blanks?  He can also be seen (back to camera) in the original $25,000 Pyramid sales-pitch film.  He played all five days of that week with June Lockhart and William Shatner.  Though he never won in the Winner's Circle, perhaps he accrued more than $1,000 for the number of games he advanced to WC.

I still have a hard time thinking Joe and Jane Average are going to think about Prime Video as much more than the place those crappy Thursday NFL games are on.

Hey, pretty fun one last night!

My episode of MILLIONAIRE started with the Fastest Finger question about movies I had not seen. No shame there.
Successful contestant plays, their run ends. (Honestly I don't remember what happened.)

Second Fastest Finger: TV shows I do not watch. Oh, well, I'm still having a good time.
Successful contestant gets into Hot Seat, does pretty well, dials his phone-a-friend, THE FRIEND DOESN'T ANSWER. Not the question, the phone.

I realize if he chooses a wrong answer, there will be time for another FF.

I realize I am actively rooting for him to choose a wrong answer. Which he does.

Third Fastest Finger, the Blindingly Easy Geography question, to which I know the answer but press the buttons in the wrong order.

Until then I did not know I could root for someone to lose. Apparently I can. I'm not happy about that, but these things happen. It's good to learn things.

Interesting to note that in a Variety article on the move ...

https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/pop-culture-jeopardy-season-2-netflix-1236554591/

... it specifically mentions that Prime Video "changed its strategy with game shows." Translation -- they premiered several traditional, "shiny floor" shows in 2024 and none of them appear to be coming back to the streamer. "The 1% Club" becoming exclusive to Fox this summer was likely a hint that Prime was changing its mind on the genre. (*) The streamer will stick to Mr. Beast and similar fare.

Do we have any idea how season 1 of PCJ did in terms of minutes viewed and the like? All I heard from the J! podcast was that "it was doing well with younger viewers," but never went into specifics beyond that.

Season 1 had issues but, over time, Colin Jost improved as a host and the presentation was a lot smoother.


JD

(*) There was so much hype about Travis Kelce hosting a new take on "5th Grader" than, after the show premiered, dead silence. The show wasn't good (IMO) but I did not expect the promotion to go away in such a short period of time.