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Auditions: Jeopardy Australia
Stephen Fry quiz is proceeding to a second season for Nine, and is on the hunt for expats in Europe.
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Casting is underway for a second season of Jeopardy Australia, hosted by Stephen Fry on Nine.
Filming by Whisper North takes place in the UK, but travel is only offered for Aussie expats within Europe.
To be eligible you must be aged at least 18, hold Australian citizenship and are currently living in the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man, or an EU member state.
Filming will take place over a two week period at the end of Sept / beginning of October.
Closing date for entries is September 13th 2024.
You can apply here.
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This was an incredibly boring, boring, excruciatingly slow version of Jeopardy (so boring it doesn’t qualify for the ! at the end of the show’s title).
Why Nine would commission a second series is beyond me. It couldn’t count for Australian content quota could it, if it’s recorded in the UK? That’s the only reason I could think Nine would have more of them made.
Stephen Fry is likeable, but he seems pompous and lethargic as host.
Here’s hoping that there are more than just six measly episodes this time around (though there are only so many episodes that can be filmed in a two week period), which is especially silly for a format that has carryover champions (and will the last winner from the previous season be returning?).
And auditions… again? When the last series only had thirteen (?) contestants in total?
And I don’t think that Fry is a good fit for the show either. Perhaps for lack of a better description, he is so lacking in vigour, which doesn’t help the show’s slower pacing.
It’s amazing how effortless Alex Trebek made it look. He truly was one in a million. RIP
In any case, I’m glad to see it return.
As well as the 6 shows produced for Australian television in Series 1, there were also 20 shows for UK television, which aired daily over 4 weeks in a daytime slot.
I have actually been in the studio where Jeopardy is filmed to attend a recording of another quiz where a week’s worth of shows (five) were taped in a single day. I know someone who appeared on (and won) UK’s Tipping Point. I was discussing his appearance with him recently and he told me that, for Tipping Point, 3 shows are recorded a day which I believe is the same for the UK version of The Chase, so schedules will vary but production of all UK quiz shows is fast paced.
For Series 2 of Jeopardy, a total of 26 shows will be filmed in that 2-week period, including 20 new shows for the UK.
I love both Stephen Fry and Jeopardy but I couldn’t make it through the first season. He’s just a bad fit for it and the pacing was painfully lumpen.
I’ve no idea what profile (if any) Stephen Fry commands in Australia, but in the UK he is a well-known and popular comedian.
Previous incarnations of Jeopardy have been tried before, however I believe this version most closely mirrors the US show, both in terms of presentation and difficulty of questions.
Personally, I felt in Series 1 that Fry assimilated well to the format and did a great job as host.
Must be cheap to make. It was a flop ratings wise
Was it? I thought it did really well for a barely-promoted show that was condemned to a Saturday evening timeslot.
Not sure you could look its final few episodes positively at all though, given barely reached 6 figures in Total and easily beaten by old movie re-runs with commercials over hours that only aired in a few markets… But Nine definitely would not renew in this climate with out absolute justification, so must be something at play, Knoxy might know more?
Yes, the ratings for Series 1 tailed off here in the UK also, however a further run has been commissioned so ITV obviously believes that the format still has legs.
I think the show was perhaps a bit high brow for its daytime audience, so it will be interesting to see if the second series retains its daytime afternoon slot which immediately precedes The Chase or whether it is shifted elsewhere.