ABC to air Jeopardy GOAT tournament

[Matt Ottinger]

Wow....first night ratings are in- and the fast nationals are off the charts...

The demo shares are the real story here.  Jeopardy (and to a degree, all game shows) takes a hit for skewing "too old," but that sure wasn't the case last night.  Total dominance with the under-50 crowd as well as the over-50 crowd.

[calliaume]

Missed the first night - actually, I'll probably miss most nights (I'm in a new job, and I'm not home now until close to 8 PM Central time) - does anybody have a streaming link that isn't locked up? (I'm not worried about spoilers - somebody on my Facebook feed spoiled it early anyway.)

[jage]

Disagree on the FJ theme, and it's now my ringtone.
It sounds a bit faster because of the background notes which are fast-paced 16th notes, but the speed is still the same. The main theme is amazing.

Agreed 100%. Could you share please?

From Chad Mosher:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAopae-9Kgw&feature=youtu.be

[BrandonFG]

Disagree on the FJ theme, and it's now my ringtone.
It sounds a bit faster because of the background notes which are fast-paced 16th notes, but the speed is still the same. The main theme is amazing.

Agreed 100%. Could you share please?

[Chelsea Thrasher]

I'm in a weird place with this; as a piece of music I adore it, but as the Final Jeopardy think music it feels just a little too busy musically for a 30 second think background.

[Sodboy13]

Slaughtered the timeslot and carried the network for the rest of the night. Wowsers. Wonder if ABC would be interested in, say, a 13-week prime time tournament over the summer.

[JasonA1]

Slaughtered the timeslot and carried the network for the rest of the night. Wowsers. Wonder if ABC would be interested in, say, a 13-week prime time tournament over the summer.

I think any network would be interested in taking advantage of something like the Alex + James publicity firestorm...but I'm not holding my breath for that to happen again.

Really enjoyed what I saw last night, although I need to give it a second watch on the DVR to get the finer details.

-Jason

[Chuck Sutton]

This is probably like Celebrity Family Feud considered a different show from the syndicated to qualify for PrimeTime Emmys.  I wonder how big a campaign ABC or Sony will make Alex for Best Reality or Competition Show host or the Tournament for Best Competition Show(Reality was dropped from award name last year)

[JakeT]

I'm in a weird place with this; as a piece of music I adore it, but as the Final Jeopardy think music it feels just a little too busy musically for a 30 second think background.

I think "too busy" best describes it and it is perhaps now a bit of a distraction to the players during those most-important 30 seconds...

JakeT

[BrandonFG]

Listening to it again, it sounds like background music for a Jeopardy! commercial, or one of the brief ads they do between the end of Double and Final J! It's catchy, but I agree a little out of place as think music. I think if they remove the percussion and synthesized 1/16 notes, it sounds more suitable here.

I may be in the minority, but being already like the main theme, it's growing on me more as a potential replacement for if/when they ever decide to update, even if it's not as fast-paced.

[Joe Mello]

Slaughtered the timeslot and carried the network for the rest of the night. Wowsers. Wonder if ABC would be interested in, say, a 13-week prime time tournament over the summer.

I think any network would be interested in taking advantage of something like the Alex + James publicity firestorm...but I'm not holding my breath for that to happen again.

I'm in the camp that nothing will happen, but I have to think someone in an important post spent today thinking of ways to keep J! in primetime.

Hell, in 2 years you could rehash Battle of the Decades into a Super Jeopardy format.

[JakeT]

While there are hopes of keeping "JEOPARDY!" in primetime, there is still the strong reality that the show won't survive that long past Alex...he has brought an atmosphere to that show that few can duplicate...

JakeT

[trainman]

While there are hopes of keeping "JEOPARDY!" in primetime, there is still the strong reality that the show won't survive that long past Alex...he has brought an atmosphere to that show that few can duplicate...

I think you mean "possibility."

I agree that it's a possibility, but disagree with the adjective "strong." If this board had been around in 1984, I'm sure a good number of posters would be saying that the new version of J! wouldn't survive long without Art Fleming.

[BrandonFG]

I think people will embrace the eventual replacement. I mean, TPiR is still going strong with Drew Carey, and even he didn't expect to be there this long.

/That's right, there's middle schoolers who never saw Bob Barker host a new episode of The Price is Right
//You're welcome

[aaron sica]

/That's right, there's middle schoolers who never saw Bob Barker host a new episode of The Price is Right
//You're welcome

That would be my future stepdaughter, just turned 13 and was 9 months old when Drew Carey began hosting.