Alex Trebek

Following Alex Trebek’s death, a parade of replacements indicates struggle to find apt host for Jeopardy!

From Ken Jennings to Katie Couric, a parade of replacements seem to be battling for the soul of Jeopardy! after Alex Trebek

LeVar Burton fans sign online petition calling for actor to be new Jeopardy! host

Burton is among the final group of guest hosts for the quiz show, which lost its longtime host Alex Trebek to cancer last November and has put off announcing his successor.

Jeopardy! without Alex Trebek: Makers talk about engineering a successful game show succession

Instead of naming a new host right away for Jeopardy!, the makers have decided to test out a number of guest hosts and see how their audience responds.

Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings to be first in series of interim hosts after Alex Trebek's demise

Ken Jennings, who won 74 games in a row in Jeopardy, will host episodes that air in January

Alex Trebek, the late host of Jeopardy!, was a modest voice of declarative truth, trusted authority

The Jeopardy! brand will live on, but there's something especially poignant now about saying goodbye to Alex Trebek because of what his show represented: a place of empirical, uncontested truth in the media.

Alex Trebek, host of long-running quiz show Jeopardy!, dies of pancreatic cancer aged 80

The remaining episodes of Jeopardy! with host Alex Trebek will air through 25 December, a Sony spokeswoman said.