Earlier this week, Leonard Cooper took home the $75,000 top
prize in this year’s Jeopardy’s Teen Tournament and also gets the award for “Best
Final Jeopardy! Response” since Ken Jennings’s last one.
Jeopardy! is currently holding its annual Tournament of
Champions, where 15 of the highest-winning champions compete in a two-week
period for a grand prize of $250,000.
Mark Walberg will be the host of the FOX game show pilot,
Don’t Lose The Money. The pilot is schedule to be produced in Germany this
month.
Famed Let’s Make A Deal host Monty Hall and Bob Stewart (posthumous), one of the greatest producers in game show history, will receive Lifetime
Achievement Awards at the 2013 Daytime Emmy Awards.
MundoFOX’s Minuto Para
Ganar (Minute To Win It) has been renewed for a second season. The show is
currently holding a casting call and the production location will move from Los
Angeles to New York.
Let’s Make A Deal will be airing two-weeks worth of shows
celebrating its 50th anniversary starting on February 18 with appearances by
Monty Hall & Carol Merilll and the return of the Super Deal.
Millionaire will kick of its “Countdown to the Oscars” week
on February 18. Next week, contestants will be asked movie questions and a home
viewer will win a 2014 Oscars Fan Experience prize package.
The Price Is Right will air its first-ever Kids Special in April;
giving children ages 8-14 a chance to play pricing games alongside a parent or
guardian.
Wheel of Fortune, Millionaire, and NBCU’s Baggage all have
something in common this week: their ratings remained flat from last week at a
7.8, 2.6, and 1.1 rating, respectively.
Jeopardy’s rating slipped a slight 1%, down to a 6.9, while
Family Feud continues to prosper ratings-wise by inching up another 4%, up to a
5.3.
Sources: Game Show News Net, BuzzerBlog, The Hollywood Reporter, Broadcasting & Cable
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