Adjustments are coming to Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune subsequent season. The 2 hit sport exhibits have remained well-liked for many years and are two of the most-watched exhibits on tv in the present day. Nevertheless, they’ve at all times been community exhibits, and with folks shifting away from cable, it’s tougher to achieve all of the followers who’ve grown to like them over time.
Nevertheless, that’s about to vary. Here’s what the 2 sport exhibits are planning for subsequent 12 months.
Jeopardy! And Wheel Of Fortune Shifting To Streaming
Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune introduced a big change for subsequent season. It is a change many followers declare has been “lengthy overdue.” They’re shifting to streaming. Nevertheless, earlier than anybody will get upset concerning the announcement, they don’t seem to be leaving community tv, which continues to be free to look at for folks with antennas or cable TV.
Ken Jennings hosts Jeopardy!, the king of daytime tv sport exhibits. Ryan Seacrest hosts Wheel of Fortune and has loved success since changing Pat Sajak this season. Now, extra followers have an opportunity to see the 2 sport exhibits in a really completely different method.
Each sport exhibits are getting their first streaming offers. This may enable Sony to seek out bigger and youthful audiences for the 2 hit sequence. Their mother or father firm introduced that it’s accepting bids from firms within the media and tech sectors. Sony hopes to have a deal in place as early as April, however they’re speaking to completely different streaming providers.
In accordance with experiences, the offers are for the streaming rights to new episodes (by way of The New York Instances). It seems like these will likely be three-year offers and would begin as quickly as this September. “The world is altering round us,” mentioned Keith Le Goy, the chairman of Sony’s TV division. “Consumption on streaming is now overtaking consumption of different types of supply of tv.”
What Does This Imply For Jeopardy! And Wheel Of Fortune
Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune common seven million American viewers a day. Nevertheless, these numbers are down as extra folks watch tv in different methods. Older viewers members largely follow conventional viewing with antennas or cable TV.
A number of exhibits have gone to streaming. WWE Monday Night time Uncooked, which used to common over six million viewers on Monday nights on USA Community, has moved to Netflix. The numbers have been largely in step with latest cable numbers, however WWE appears pleased with the transfer. Competitor AEW Dynamite has a deal now the place it simulcasts on TNT and Max, getting the perfect of each worlds.
Jeopardy! already examined the waters. Pop Tradition Jeopardy! streams on Prime Video, and if Sony needs to maneuver the flagship present to streaming, it seems like that was a optimistic expertise. Nevertheless, many followers rebelled when Dancing with the Stars moved from conventional tv to Disney+. This meant it solely lasted one season, and now it simulcasts on each ABC and Disney+, just like AEW on Max and TNT.
The excellent news is that followers with out streaming can nonetheless watch Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune, however they must wait a day after the primary airing to see them in syndication.
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Shawn S. Lealos has been a contract author for over 25 years and is a voting member of the Oklahoma Movie Critics Circle. He’s additionally a broadcast writer with a e-book concerning the Stephen King Greenback Child Filmmakers.