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Is 'Jeopardy!' About to Expand Its Empire with a Bunch of Spinoff Shows? · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Since the passing of
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  Speaker 1: legendary host Alex Trebek, Jeopardy already entered a new era
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  Speaker 1: with two hostsplitting the duties Ken Jennings and Miambiolic. But
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  Speaker 1: there's now even bigger potential changes on the horizon and
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  Speaker 1: expanding empire. Following the debut of Celebrity Jeopardy this past Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: executive producer Michael Davies revealed to The New York Times
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  Speaker 1: he says more than one new spinoff is in the works,
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  Speaker 1: starting with what might be a professional Trivia Master version.
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  Speaker 1: What we really need to develop is the pro level
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  Speaker 1: version of the game. It seemed ridiculous to me that
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  Speaker 1: we have this sport where every single year we take
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  Speaker 1: all of our best players are Lebron's are Dwyane Wades,
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  Speaker 1: and we switch them all out after only one loss.
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  Speaker 1: They're even considering airing that live a first, but we
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  Speaker 1: need to iron out the details. And that's not all.
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  Speaker 1: They've even discussed new Jeopardy shows specifically focused on special
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  Speaker 1: interest topics like sports or music or pop culture. In
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  Speaker 1: the meantime, you can catch have tried and true original
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  Speaker 1: Jeopardy weeknights on a bes C that's direct from Hollywood,