The Pop Culture version of Jeopardy! was announced a few months back at Prime’s upfronts, and is produced, like the host series, by Sony Pictures Television. Unlike regular Jeopardy!, the game will be played in teams of three, with each trio fighting it out to demonstrate their superior mastery of pop culture minutiae. (Also, anecdotally, we took the admissions test for this one, and the level of detail being asked for was much more rigorous than we expected; prepare yourself for some very granular questions about sports, country music, movies, games, and more.)
There’s no word yet on when Pop Culture Jeopardy! will air—we haven’t gotten our callback yet, despite answering upwards of 30 percent of the test questions right, so they must still be pretty early in the process—although we’re going to go ahead and guess that filming won’t even begin until after Jost’s current Olympic duties are over. The series is the latest of the very occasional efforts to spin the quiz show franchise off into other areas, with the most recent successful run being Jeff Probst’s Rock & Roll Jeopardy!, the three-season VH1 quiz show that dared to ask if you could face the trivia know-how of reality TV’s hardest-rocking tan shorts occupant. Primary Jeopardy! is currently hosted (in what’s still, we believe, technically a “temporary” position) by Ken Jennings, after his former co-host Mayim Bialik was quietly shuffled away from the show in the aftermath of the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes last year.
