8 /10 1 Votes8
Country of origin United States No. of seasons 3 Presented by Dan Patrick Number of episodes 116 Genre Game show | 8.1/10 IMDb Narrated by Kelly Miyahara Original language(s) English First episode date 24 September 2014 Number of seasons 3 Director Kevin McCarthy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Similar The Moment of Truth, Let's Ask America, Trivial Pursuit: America, Deal or No Deal, Our Little Genius Profiles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sports Jeopardy! is an American television game show adapted from the quiz show Jeopardy! The show debuted on Crackle on September 9, 2014. Hosted by Dan Patrick, this version featured largely identical play to the parent program, but highlights sports trivia instead of general knowledge.
Format
In fall 2014, Crackle, an online video streaming service owned by Sony, began exclusively carrying Sports Jeopardy!, a themed version of the show with material focused entirely on sports trivia. Dan Patrick was announced to host this spin-off. Kelly Miyahara, a member of the Jeopardy! Clue Crew, serves as an on-camera announcer. Howie Schwab serves as off-camera judge and consultant. Each category has only four clues (250, 500, 750 and 1,000 in the Jeopardy! round, with those values doubled for Double Jeopardy!) compared to five in the parent series. The fewer clues allows Patrick and the contestants more time to interact during the interview portion of the show and during a "postgame" segment during and after the closing credits.
In this version, contestants play for points, with the second and third place contestants winning $1,000 and $2,000 each (the same as the parent series) and the winner earning $5,000. For the first season, three new contestants competed on each episode. Returning champions were added in the second season. The top three scorers from the first season competed in a Tournament of Champions for a $50,000 top prize. Justin Shibilski, a Yankees fan from Aurora, Illinois, beat all other competitors and won the two-day tournament.
For season 2, which premiered on September 23, 2015, the show changed to allow each episodes winner to return for the next episode as the returning champion. This is the same format followed by Jeopardy!. This was to allow the show to be seen as more easily binge-watched.
In April 2016, Sports Jeopardy! was acquired for television by NBCSN. Starting on August 6, 2016, the program will air nightly for the duration of the 2016 Summer Olympics after the conclusion of nightly coverage, and move to a weekly airing on Wednesday nights for the 2016–17 television season.