Jeopardy! Season 40 finale schedule change revealed leaving some viewers unable to watch last episode

JEOPARDY!’S Season 40 finale will air later than fans are expecting.

The game show will be delayed in some time zones due to the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games and others will not see it at all.

The Season 40 finale of Jeopardy! will be delayed in many regions tomorrow night[/caption]

Ken Jennings will host the finale and will be back for Season 41[/caption]

Jeopardy! usually airs weekdays at 7pm on ABC.

The 2024 Summer Olympic Games begin tomorrow, July 25, the same day as the Jeopardy! finale.

Their opening ceremony airs live at 1:30pm EST and will air again in primetime at 7:30.

Despite the Olympics airing on NBC, Jeopardy! will be delayed or removed from the schedule in some regions.

On an Excel sheet made by Matt Carberry, the different times and stations are listed.

This is causing those cities to air the finale on Saturday, Sunday, or Monday.

In some regions, Jeopardy! is being moved to MeTv or The CW.

For a lot of cities in the Central and Pacific time zones, Jeopardy! will not air at all on Friday.

THE END OF THE SEASON

Thursday’s episode will have three contestants facing off against each other.

Phil Gatton is an IT portfolio director & musician from Louisville, Kentucky.

Krista Boyd from Saint Paul, Minnesota, is a legislative fiscal analyst.

They will be facing off against Davey Morrison.

He is an actor and screenwriter from Provo, Utah.

Davey is the current champion, after being the only player to answer Wednesday’s Final Jeopardy! question correctly.

Jeopardy! Host Timeline

Jeopardy! has had a tumultuous history regarding hosts after the death of the iconic Alex Trebek in 2020. Here are all of the hosts since the game show's inception in 1964.

Art Fleming – 1964 to 1975, he was the original host of the daytime version of Jeopardy! on NBC.

Alex Trebek – 1984 to 2020, the late, great Alex hosted Jeopardy!’s modern iteration for 36 years until his death from pancreatic cancer.

Guest hosts – 2020 to 2021, Jeopardy! tested out a series of guest hosts for week or two-week stints, including Anderson Cooper, LaVar Burton, and Aaron Rodgers.

Mike Richards – 2021, he was named host for one week before resigning amid controversy. He was the show’s executive producer at the time.

Mayim Bialik – 2021 to 2023, when Mike was announced as the show’s new host, Mayim was chosen to host tournaments and primetime specials.

Mayim and Ken Jennings – 2022 to 2023, 74-time champion Ken (the longest-winning contestant ever) joined Mayim as a guest host and they split hosting duties.

Ken Jennings – 2023 to present. Last December, Mayim announced on Instagram that she would “no longer” host Jeopardy! after a lengthy hiatus, having stood with the writer’s strike, and Ken was named sole host.

Ken now helms all editions of Jeopardy! including Celebrity Jeopardy!, the nightly show, and other primetime specials like Masters.

Whoever wins this game will move on to the finale.

SINKING IN

Davey defeated three-day champion Neilesh Vinjamuri on Wednesday.

Nelish not reaching a fourth win made him ineligible for the Tournament of Champions.

During the interview segment, Davey stunned host Ken Jennings and viewers when he revealed that he escaped from quicksand.

“Really?” Ken, 50, exclaimed.

“I was location scouting for a film project and took a step into some mud and took another step and was up to my waist in thick goopy bog from which I could not emerge,” Davey explained.

Ken then asked how someone escapes from quicksand

“So I deduced what you’re supposed to do which is – I can’t – I couldn’t reach dry land,” the player shared.

“And you can’t push your way through, no one was around to call out for help.”

“And so I tried leaning back and lifting my legs to see if my weight were more evenly distributed if I could scoot to land, and it worked, and I did,” Davey said.

Ken said that this was the most helpful piece of information everyone learned that night.