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Mike Richards Influenced ‘Jeopardy’ Guest-Host Rotation Before He Got the Gig: NYT

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Mike Richards picked which guest hosts screened for focus groups, which in turn influenced Sony’s choice of a successor to Alex Trebek.

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Jeopardy! executive producer Mike Richards played a role in the show’s rotation of guest hosts before he got the late Alex Trebek’s old gig, The

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