'Jeopardy! Greatest of All Time' Tournament to Air in Syndication for First Time

By Paige Albiniak
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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CBS Television Distribution’s Jeopardy! will salute its greatest player of all time, Ken Jennings, in a two-week encore of the Jeopardy! Greatest of All Time tournament that aired on ABC in primetime in January. This will mark the first time the tournament will air in broadcast syndication.

Included in the two-week run are Jennings’ first ever appearance on the show, which originally aired on June 2, 2004, and his final game of that record-setting 74-game winning streak that originally aired on Nov. 30, 2004. Sandwiched in the middle are the eight matches of the GOAT tournament, which also featured professional poker player James Holzhauer, who introduced a new high-stakes way of playing the game during his original run last spring, and Brad Rutter, who until the tournament was the game’s highest money winner.

The episodes will begin airing on Monday, May 4 and run through Friday, May 15.

Jeopardy!, which has been hosted by Alex Trebek since its start in syndication, is in its 36th season. The show is produced by Sony Pictures Television and distributed by CBS Television Distribution. 

Paige Albiniak
Paige Albiniak

Contributing editor Paige Albiniak has been covering the business of television for more than 25 years. She is a longtime contributor to Next TV, Broadcasting + Cable and Multichannel News. She concurrently serves as editorial director for The Global Entertainment Marketing Academy of Arts & Sciences (G.E.M.A.). She has written for such publications as TVNewsCheck, The New York Post, Variety, CBS Watch and more. Albiniak was B+C’s Los Angeles bureau chief from September 2002 to 2004, and an associate editor covering Congress and lobbying for the magazine in Washington, D.C., from January 1997 - September 2002.