'Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time' — the biggest hit of the 2019-20 TV season — racked up 14.6 million viewers per episode over the four-night event
The biggest hit of the 2019-20 TV season is an offshoot of one of the longest-running game shows in syndication:racked up 14.6 million viewers per episode over the four-night event.
It's a phenomenal number for the current era, ahead of same-day viewership for every non-sports show on TV so far this season. It's also not a shock to Rob Mills, ABC's head of alternative series, specials and late night. "I have to say I'm thrilled, but not really surprised. The idea felt so big, and there's something about— you knew that audience would migrate," says Mills of the show's already sizable viewership .
The game-show event is part of ABC's effort to have one big live event on its air each month, whether it's the Oscars, the NBA Finals or the restaging of classic sitcoms in the Jimmy Kimmel-led. "The strategy we've adopted [is to have] at least one monthly tentpole event. Some months we'll have more. Some are legacy parts of our history; some are new, like," said ABC Entertainment president Karey Burke at a TCA panel Jan. 8.
Mills credits Friedman with creating the best-of-seven format, in which the first player to win three nightly matches earns the title and $1 million.staff did a rigorous vetting of all the games Holzhauer, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter previously played. "Once we wrote the games, then we had to go back and compare all this material with all the games that have been played previously by these three contestants, so we weren't repeating clues that might have been asked previously," says Friedman. "It was a scrubbing process of comparing these subjects and categories and responses to all of the games, the hundreds of games, that these three collectively have played before. That's where our database certainly came in handy.
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