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malaise

(269,028 posts)
Fri Jan 5, 2018, 08:35 PM Jan 2018

Jeopardy Regulars

Trebek has been quite ill. He'll be off for some time.

http://deadline.com/2018/01/alex-trebek-jeopardy-medical-leave-surgery-hiatus-1202235930/
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Production on Jeopardy! has been put on a brief hiatus while longtime host Alex Trebek recuperates from surgery.

Trebek was admitted to LA’s Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on December 15 after experiencing complications from hitting his head in a fall in October. He was diagnosed with a subdural hematoma and underwent surgery to remove it December 16. The surgery was successful, and he was released from the hospital two days later.

Trebek is expected to make a full and complete recovery. He will resume taping Jeopardy! in mid-January. Because the show is filmed months in advance, its broadcast schedule won’t be affected with one exception: The upcoming College Championship, which was supposed to tape now, will film in March and air in April.

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Jeopardy Regulars (Original Post) malaise Jan 2018 OP
I wish him a full recovery, but ... left-of-center2012 Jan 2018 #1
Scary stuff. I'm so glad he's ok! Greybnk48 Jan 2018 #2
I wish Trebeck a speedy recovery Gothmog Jan 2018 #3

left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
1. I wish him a full recovery, but ...
Fri Jan 5, 2018, 08:56 PM
Jan 2018

I don't like him as host.
I like the show, but would like to see another person take over.
(Someone had suggested Anderson Cooper)

I think it's his attempt to imitate the voices of famous people, or foreign accents.
Plus he allows misspellings in some final Jeopardy answers while not in others.

Greybnk48

(10,168 posts)
2. Scary stuff. I'm so glad he's ok!
Fri Jan 5, 2018, 10:06 PM
Jan 2018

He had a ruptured achilles tendon a few years ago too, another serious injury! For purely selfish reasons, I don't want him to retire anytime soon and wish him the best of health.

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