The one that might work on streaming, Pop Culture Jeopardy, is now out to watch on Prime Video and in actual fact the first three episodes are up in the UK storefront right now. New episodes go up every Wednesday, and it’s a 40-episode run.
Pop Culture Jeopardy sees teams of three battle it out in a series long tournament with $300,000 on the line for the eventual winners. New to the series is the ‘Triple Play’, a three part question/answer/clue/whatever that each person in the team has to give a response to win triple the clue’s value.
The show is hosted by the Jost with the most, Saturday Night Live‘s Colin Jost.
No word on plans for series two of UK Jeopardy, but it doesn’t sound like they’re giving it a New Year’s berthing/baptism of fire like last year. It’s been filmed.
Somebody on Reddit last month said they were on an episode that was filmed recently (as of then).
https://www.reddit.com/r/BritishTV/comments/1ggj7wr/is_jeopardy_uk_set_for_a_series_2_within_the_new/
Oh yes I knew it had been filmed, should have made that clearer.
It’s… fine? It is mostly what it says on the tin. Colin Jost does a very solid job as host. Having teams doesn’t have as much of an impact as you would expect, and the triple plays, where all 3 team members have to provide an answer, seem so tricky that I see teams avoiding answering them. The teams feel a little more central casting-y than I’d like but it’s not horrendous or anything.
The only problem is that it just doesn’t feel hugely necessary given the ton of other Jeopardy! stuff out there and it doesn’t really do enough different to stand out
The questions feel a bit too US-centric at times to have much international appeal but it’s still nice it’s been made available.
It’ll be interesting to see if it lasts, especially given the thread about streaming and quiz shows. I don’t think regular Jeopardy is readily streamable so that might be a selling point. The questions suggest the show is targeting a younger audience in their teens/early-20s, which is interesting and probably a little younger than I would have expected. Pop Culture as a topic feels like is has a better chance of reaching an audience than sports – plenty of folks like sports but obscure sports trivia has much narrower appeal.
One thing I’m intrigued about is does having each question a nine-way reaction test buzzer battle turn it into a crap shoot or will the cream still rise?