Jeopardy! Masters tournament hits ‘concerning’ speedbump as ‘less than half of it is filmed’ despite premiere in 2 weeks

JEOPARDY!’s highly anticipated Masters tournament is reportedly extremely behind schedule.

According to ticketholders, the taping of yesterday’s episode was cancelled. Four of the 10 episodes were filmed in advance of May 8, 2008.

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The primetime special is supposed to air over three weeks on ABC and Hulu starting on May 8, hosted by Ken Jennings, 48.

The lineup includes James Holzhauer, Amy Schneider, Matt Amodio, Sam Buttrey, Andrew He, and Mattea Roach.

Six stars will be competing in different pairings over a period of three weeks in ten episodes lasting one hour and featuring two matches.

Jeopardy! has a $500K prize for the champion of all Champions. In its promotional materials, Jeopardy! called the event its “biggest-ever event.” official trailer [seen above].

There is not enough time to film the rest of this special.

Only four out of 10 episodes were recorded

Reddit user, who flagged Sunday’s abrupt cancellation of the show one day before the 24th April taping of the next set of episodes.

The headline read: “Breaking News: Masters tape recording canceled again.”

Jeopardy!The ticketing company On-Camera Audiences of’s is alleged to have let them down by email.

It said that the company had sent an email alerting them to Jeopardy! The original 3/15 taping for tomorrow (4/25) has been canceled.

“They have taped four of the ten episodes at this point,” they said.

One person, who wanted to go to the next set of recordings wrote on the email: “THIS I CONFIRMED” and shared their ticketing confirmation.

The message read, “Due unforeseen circumstances the Jeopardy! Master’s has been cancelled.

The event will be rescheduled. “We apologize for the inconvenience. Please accept our sincere apologies for the inconvenience caused. Thank you for understanding.”

It’s not clear when or if there will be a delay in the airing of the U.S Sun special.

Many fans who had rearranged their schedules in order to attend the event confirmed that they too received the same cancellation email.

‘REASON UNKNOWN’

Another fan responded that they received an email as well and said: “They have told us they are sending us a present since this is their 2nd cancellation at the last minute for this recording.” What will it be?

A second attendee who was also invited wrote: “Hey, same thing happened here!” What did you say, I too would like a present for this. “I literally changed my work and personal schedule to accommodate this.”

Another third wrote: “Ugh!” Since we had been in the 3/15 taped, it was our responsibility to be there. Our vacation plans were changed (flights, etc.) so that we could be in the crowd. So disappointed.”

Someone else confirmed the cancellation on Twitter: “Tomorrow’s #Jeopardy Masters taped canceled.” The reason for the cancellation is unknown but confirmed by several people. “Four of the ten scheduled episodes have been canceled.”

One fan said: “Jeopardy Masters starts to make me nervous!!

The first four episodes have only been recorded?

Another fan asked: “Is it possible to use a substitute?”

Someone else said it was already too late. “Especially since they had already broadcast all of the promotional material with these people.” I’m surprised that Jeopardy did that, since I feel like it would make the most sense to prepare all games, and then post the advertisements.”

The beloved game show earlier revealed that Cris Pannullo – the 21-day champ who is going to be in the next Tournament of Champions – was tapped as the alternate and was on site in case any of the stars couldn’t make it for the first taping, which wound up not being the case.

There appears to be only one recording at the moment.

DELIVERIES ACROSS BOARD

The taped episode that was scheduled to air in March was cancelled on Monday.

Reddit users reported that at the time they were there and the filming was stopped by a person.

Ken mentioned it as a “happy” type of emergency,” the writers wrote.

They were to shoot two hour-long shows (basically four 30-minute episodes). They cancelled the two shows after 12:00.

“We were all already seated in the audience when Ken came out personally to relay the news and he just did a Q&A with the audience instead.

The relayed that they had been told:[The] The plan is to continue taping in April. They have guaranteed us tickets for that show, but I will not be able make it.

One person asked: “And, the happy emergency was…someone’s wife went into labor?” A second person replied: “That is my opinion, it seems likely.”

Schedule for the current yearThe Futon criticThis is what you will find:

• Week 1, May 8, 9, 10 and 12.
• Week 2: 15-17 May
• Week 3: 22-24 May – The special’s winner will be crowned on the 24th of May.

TIME IS OF THE EXCESSENCE

Jeopardy! Masters is the brainchild of new executive producer Michael Davies and is intended to determine the best player in any given year, a belt notch higher than the Tournament of Champions (which only features contestants from the prior season).

Jeopardy is a concern! Aside from the fact that Masters is actually finished, there has been some trouble in recent months due to a small window of time between filming and airtime.

High School Reunion Tournament, a game show that aired in February 23, was filmed late in January.

Michael Davies, the EP for Edinburgh West, apologized to the public after a “horrible editing error” was made which showed all three players’ final scores before the start of a game.

It’s an error series and it is somewhat surprising that this happened.

Please accept my apology to the crowd at the beginning of the performance. The show was a total failure.

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