Mayim Bialik, Bill Whitaker and Katie Couric will serve as hosts on Jeopardy!

Celebrities including Mayim Bialik, 60-minute personality Bill Whitaker and Katie Couric are hosting Jeopardy! as the show still features a changing range of host houses, after longtime host Alex Trebek died last November of pancreatic cancer.

The news of the above-mentioned trio comes on the heels of the news The Green Bay Packers fullback Aaron Rodgers will also be under the stars in the upcoming season of the quiz show.

“Alex was a legend, honored by all of us,” Mike Richards, executive producer of the show, said in a statement. “I want to thank our hosts, who will not only help us all celebrate his great legacy, but will also give their own occasion to the show.”

Couric will make history as the first woman to present the program; the show will also donate to individual charities selected by each host, and donate the sum of the profits for the week they offer.

Richards told Entertainment Weekly on Wednesday that the program is looking for ‘people who are credible to give the clues, people who can actually give the clues accurately, who can respond right or wrong to the answers, and that Jeopardy! fans will enjoy in that role, but it will not try to make themselves the star. ‘

He said, ‘There’s going to be a wide variety of big names that I’m going to call,’ Oh yeah, of course, ‘and then my hope is that there are some,’ Oh, I did not think of that person, and I would love to see what it looks like Jeopardy! ‘

Richards said he will host the show for a few weeks to give the upcoming host enough time to ‘prepare for their appearance’.

The first host to follow Trebek – who has hosted the show for more than 8,000 episodes since 1984 – was Ken Jennings, who won 74 consecutive games to record the program’s longest winning streak, in addition to making $ 1. won millions on JEOPARDY! The greatest of all time a year ago.

“Honestly, I’m in the audience,” Jennings said in a clip before the show. “I do not want to be out here. I want to see Alex here. I know exactly how they feel when they see someone else behind this chair. ‘But there are tens of millions of people who like this show; we love this show, Alex loved the show. I’m just happy to fill in and help. ‘

Jennings began recording his delivery on November 30, 2020, as the beloved Canadian host passed away on November 8, less than two weeks before he pre-recorded his last series at the end of October.

Richards, who spoke to the Today show earlier this month, said Trebek “was in a lot of pain amid the recordings, but the perfect professional – an absolute fighter” – continued.

As for his replacement, Richards said Trebek ‘mentioned a few names, but he wanted to stay out there as a whole, as’ no one was going to replace him, and he knew it’.