Like you need ask? lol just being snarky. YES again!!!

Yeah, around $75,000. He’s a machine.

What if he keeps winning next season? Will other contestants lose interest?

"What if he keeps winning next season?"

Although taping has been completed for this season, the show tapes several months in advance. We'll still be seeing "new" shows for a while.

I forgot that since this is Friday, I can watch it. So I am. :-)

He talks over Alex, which I don't care for.

It’s becoming the Alex and James Show.

We don't normally watch, but tonight I thought I'd tune in. Dagnabit, there are heavy storms around, and it kept cutting out. I finally gave up.

While he is impressive, I found him a bit annoying . And I felt sorry for the other two. Why were they there, again?

I did notice they seemed to be following his lead tonight. I don't think he's cheating or found a loophole. It's just a strategy. So I really don't get the distaste? Maybe he's changing the face of the game, but it's not like it's a low blow or anything? I did also notice the double jeopardies came early. Did they put them in higher dollar amounts to combat or counter his new strategy? Or, are the games set way in advance and it's a coincidence? Interesting.

Yes, I mentioned that in the other topic of Jeopardy, that he doesn’t let Alex finish what he is saying. That’s why I find him arrogant. He did get off to a slow start tonight.

Really slow! I totally agree. It bothers me when Alex doesn't get to finish when James interrupts.

Here's his wife when she was a contestant on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" He's cheering her on in the audience.

His achievements were discussed on CBC radio on the evening of Apr. 23, where they interview many people connected to current news/affairs worldwide on "As It Happens" weeknights for an hour and a half.

Probably can hear it at www.cbc.ca/aih.

Maybe check, "the jeopardy fan.com".

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Alisande, so funny that the wife is a good player as well.

The wife is pretty smart! I didn't know either....Liberty Bell on $100 bill....ok.

I watched it tonite. I liked it better when they had a limit to how many days you could win. When will he be done? How long can it go on?

It hasn't been that way since 2003?! Why do you think that's better, jasdip? Just out of nosiness

;)

I wasn't home to watch it tonight, but he had a close call Monday night. Maybe they can bring that contestant back again. Wearing a disguise. With a new name. :-)

Lol Alisande-- I was happy to see it Monday night- I really was excited to see it and felt the actual suspense. Then I did watch it last night and when it was clear early on that he was going to win, I was starting to get turned off.

It's truly amazing and impressive and every other word like that but I think I agree with you.

Rob, by having 1 contestant consistently win for weeks, months, however long it takes, in my mind takes the fun out of the whole game. Plus, who the heck wants to even apply to be on the show knowing he's still in the game.

Plus, who the heck wants to even apply to be on the show knowing he's still in the game.

I would think lots of people. Becoming champion isn't everything by a long shot. There's the whole experience of being chosen and appearing on Jeopardy (at last!). And then when they tell their stories to the grandchildren, they'll have an excellent excuse as to why they didn't win!

Jeopardy schedules auditions and contestant appearance times months in advance. When you are given a date to appear, you have no idea who you will be competing with.

In 2004, Ken Jennings was on for 74 days and won 2.5 million. Your on til you lose. I'm excited to see how far James will go.

I don't watch the show but I know the program is taped well in advance of broadcast. Someone we know was on it in the past year and had a good run of several days, a more "normal" experience.

I think the time lapse between the recording and the broadcast was something like 4 months, and could have been a bit more, but I don't remember exactly. He was sworn to secrecy, of course, and couldn't discuss the experience until after the broadcast date.

They record 5 shows (I think that's the right number) one after the other, with just time for a quick break to refresh and change clothing in-between. The report back was that it was both grueling and very tiring and that the intensity affected his mental performance.

jasdip,

I keep thinking the SAME thing. I wouldn't want to go up against him. The guy that almost beat him the other night was playing the game like he was. I think that's what it's going to take. He has changed the game forever, probably. What a brilliant strategy, whether one likes him or not. No point in finding daily doubles with no money. I still think they've moved them to the bottom to thwart him a bit. Maybe

The strategy he uses was invented by someone else.

some one beat Ken Jennings, know anything about that person? Nancy Zerg ring a bell? No?

I am continually astonished by the breath of this guys trivia knowledge.

I have read they do film five shows two days in a row for ten games at a time exhausting.

I looked this up. Only ten contestants have won more than seven games in a row.

My husband is very irritated by the fact that although the second and third place winners may win a decent amount of money they really only win one or two thousand dollars,depending on placement.

It’s getting boring.

It's really no fun, like attending a sports event where one team totally dominates the other and the score is zero to whatever--a wipeout.

I was surprised at how vastly relieved James seemed to be when he won after that close call Monday night. He looked like he was literally sweating. I know I'm not terribly competitive myself, but I would have thought he'd be a tad more open to handing over the championship to someone else. Instead, his demeanor reminded me of the teenage boys I used to see emerging from the Catholic church after going through the experience of Confession.

Here's a May 1 interview with Alex on GMA. (I cannot remember the interviewer's name, but didn't she have her own battle with cancer?) Alex--what a fine man. Handsomer now than as a younger man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lLNc6Qpjwc

Its not boring at all to my household and we still think its fun. We are amazed at James' vast knowledge and pleased that he keeps going. At the end of the show last night Alex said that next week will be the teacher's tournament and so I am disappointed to have to put James on "hold" for a week - or else maybe tonight or tomorrow night something happens to change his status?

Deebert, my hubs is also disappointed that the second and third places only win $2,000 and $1,000 too.

James has passed the contestant in second place for most conservative wins (Julia. Love her!). Ken Jennings is left to surpass

Alex has now said how much pain he was in, in the initial stages of treatment. He was writhing in pain in his dressing room then had to film the next show.

He's also admitted that he has lost his hair and wears a wig. "And he now challenges the eagle-eyed Jeopardy! viewers to guess which episodes feature his real hair, and which ones are a wig.

“On air I’m told that there were times when the hairpiece looked better than my real hair,” he said. “So we’ll see how people react to that.”

Wow, what an amazing man, what strength.

I was pretty sure he had been wearing a hairpiece. It's not a very good one but that is beyond what is important. The treatments must be intense. :(