Jeopardy! has crossed the pond.
Sure, you learn that proper: the well-known answer-and-question sport present has added a pair letters to the top of its title. Dubbed Jeopardy! UK, the present might be hosted by Stephen Fry (The Morning Present, The Hobbit) and can air completely on BBC First in Canada beginning Wednesday, Jan. 10 at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
Regardless of the massive transfer, the present will for essentially the most half keep the identical aside from one large change — the U.Okay. model will permit individuals to play an additional spherical, growing stakes for the gamers.
Fry isn’t any stranger to internet hosting quiz reveals, having hosted the favored British quiz program QI from 2003 to 2016.
“I’m dizzy with delight and honoured to host,” Fry stated. “I hope Canadians watching this endlessly rewarding sport present will welcome me into their properties as they did the good and iconic Alex Trebek. Audiences needs to be ready for a nostalgic and uniquely beguiling good time to grace screens on BBC First in Canada this January.”
International Information did a fast Q&A with Fry concerning the gig, and the way British of us are taking to the “new” sport present.
International Information: Do you watch the unique Jeopardy!? And do you continue to watch it once you’re in North America?
Stephen Fry: Sure, I watch Jeopardy! at any time when I can after I’m in America. I’ve develop into fairly fixated with it as a result of there are such a lot of dramas concerned, inside little narratives that change and shift over the weeks. It’s thrilling, and I believe there’s something magical concerning the format. I first noticed Jeopardy! all these years in the past, with the legendary Alex Trebek internet hosting the quiz present and the concept I’m now on this place on the lectern in command of the sport, effectively, I imply, it makes me need to pinch myself.
How have the U.Okay. contestants taken to the quiz present?
The U.Okay. contestants have taken to the sport like geese to water. It’s been superb to observe. A variety of them have seen it earlier than, and even when they haven’t, it’s a sport that, like so many others, for those who attempt to describe it and simply lay it out in phrases, it sounds odd. However, as quickly as you begin watching it, you choose it up, and the little nuances develop into very obvious, and our contestants have been superb.
They’ve actually proven all facets of this sport. They’ve proven that it’s referred to as Jeopardy! for a very good cause. They take dangers, you already know, you must take dangers, and typically it could actually blow up of their face, and so they can go from a excessive to a low cash rating in seconds. It’s very unpredictable, and it’s great to observe. Our U.Okay. contestants are merely sensible, and the vary of their data will blow audiences away.
How do you suppose you’ll fare as a contestant?
[Laughs] Nicely, there are some topics I really feel moderately assured in, and I believe: How come they haven’t obtained that? However, I’ve to say I’d be very weak in some scientific, mathematical, and geographical classes. I’ve all the time been very dangerous at recognizing international locations’ flags.
For instance, I’m not naturally gifted with a very good visible reminiscence. I’m very dangerous at faces. Certainly, I’ve prosopagnosia, which is face blindness. So I’m fairly dangerous at these visible clues that present the face, however I believe I might take pleasure in it as a result of there’s one thing concerning the trip in Jeopardy!. There’s one thing concerning the peaks and the troughs that might give me pleasure. I’d in all probability sweat and battle for the buzzer. Perhaps someday I’ll play Jeopardy!.
Are you able to give us an instance of a number of the nice question-answers you’ve heard?
There was an excellent query the place the reply is also a sport. For instance, what was the insect that stood on Pinocchio’s shoulder? And the reply to that was cricket, which can be a sport. The one I actually love was a couple of typewriter key between escape and shift, or nevertheless it was described, it was extra correct than that, and I used to be utterly flummoxed. And naturally, it was F1 the operate key, which can be Method One, the game. So our clue setters as we name them are actually sensible. I imply, they give you essentially the most imaginative clues.
Inform us extra about Jeopardy! and what makes this quiz present so iconic?
It’s not simply boards of all these sums of cash and choose them, get it proper and the primary one to attain essentially the most on the finish is the winner. It’s truly a lot cleverer than that. It’s referred to as Jeopardy!, as a repeating, for an excellent cause. There’s a whole lot of risk-taking concerned. There are a whole lot of sudden surprises, and it brings out the easiest in all contestants, not simply their data, but additionally their quick-wittedness, as a result of it’s not all the time a data query. Typically it’s phrase video games and puzzles, and likewise these contestants are ready to again their very own data and judgement, that makes it actually what it’s, the best quiz sport ever devised.
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‘Jeopardy! UK’ premieres Wednesday, January 10 at 9 p.m. ET/PT, completely on BBC First in Canada. New episodes will air each Wednesday.
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