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    British television game show producer

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  1. Apr 14, 2022 · Following the firing of former EP Mike Richards in August, Michael Davies, who was named interim host, has accepted a permanent EP position. ... News; Apr 14, 2022 12:01pm PT

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    • Jeopardy! Creator Merv Griffin Gave Davies His Big Break
    • Davies Is The Founder of The Production Company Embassy Row
    • He Also Co-Hosts A Popular Podcast and A TV Show About Soccer
    • He Doesn’T Want to Reimagine The Show

    In a J!Buzz blog post from last December, Davies, then the interim executive producer of Jeopardy!, told fans that he met the late Merv Griffin, creator of both Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune, more than 30 years prior. When Davies was 24 — and working as an assistant tennis pro in Florida as he plotted a career in TV writing — he got a job as a dev...

    Davies is the founder and president of Embassy Row, the production company behind unscripted series like Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen, Talking Dead, and the new Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. In his April blog post, Davies said that the support of his colleagues “means that I have the resources and people to continue to run and build Emb...

    With friend Roger Bennett, Davies hosts the Men in Blazerspodcast, which, as they explain in the podcast description, is “driven by the belief that Soccer is America’s Sport of the Future. As it has been since 1972.” Davies and Bennett met at a wedding in 2006 and bonded over how miserable they were to be missing the World Cup final that day. Their...

    Though Davies told fans on the J!Buzz blog that he wants to build and develop Jeopardy!to “take advantage of new platforms,” it sounds like he doesn’t want to fix what’s not broken. “Jeopardy!does not need to be imagined or reimagined,” he wrote. “It is honestly the most perfect idea, both classic and essentially modern. Its air is filled with a co...

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  3. Apr 14, 2022 · April 14, 2022 10:20am. Jeopardy Set Courtesy of Jeopardy Productions Inc. It’s official: Michael Davies is the new showrunner of Jeopardy!. The Embassy Row president announced in a blog post ...

  4. Michael Peterson Davies [4] (born 3 March 1966) is a United States-based British television game shows producer. [5] He is best known for bringing the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire to American television. Since 2014, he has hosted a podcast entitled Men in Blazers alongside journalist Roger Bennett.

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    • 1990-present
    • Television producer
    • Michael Peterson Davies, 3 March 1966 (age 57), London, England
  5. While talking to the press at the Television Critics Association winter press tour on Feb. 10, Davies went into more detail on the decision to commit to one host. After Mike Richards was let go ...

  6. Aug 7, 2023 · August 7, 2023 10:14am. Christopher Willard/ABC/ Getty Images. Jeopardy! is undergoing a big change for its Season 40 as a result of the writers strike. Michael Davies, who took over as exec ...

  7. Jul 27, 2022 · 07.27.2022. A Note from Jeopardy! EP Michael Davies: New Hosts and New Initiatives. I write today with the exciting news that we have closed and signed deals with Mayim Bialik and Ken Jennings to be the hosts of Jeopardy! moving forward. The fact is, we have so much Jeopardy! to make, and so many plans for the future, that we always knew we ...

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