Michael T. Mondak speaks about the future streaming of Jeopardy!

My sources tell me that starting early in 2025, Jeopardy! will stream all 9000+ episodes on either Amazon Prime Video or Hulu.

These episodes date back to opening day on September 10, 1984.  We will get to see some of the greatest champions of all time from Chuck Forrest to Frank Spangenberg and Leszek Pawlowicz to Rachael Schwartz and Dan Melia to Eddie Timanus and Robin Carroll to Brad Rutter and Mark Dawson to Ken Jennings and David Madden to Larissa Kelly and Roger Craig to Matt Jackson and Cindy Stowell to James Holzhauer and Matt Amodio to Amy Schneider and Mattea Roach to Yogesh Raut.

We will also get to see all of the editions of the Tournament of Champions, the Teen Tournament, the Seniors Tournament, the College Championship, Celebrity Jeopardy!, the International Tournament of Champions, Kids Week, and the Teacher's Tournament.  (No word on whether we will see Super Jeopardy!, the Battle of the Bay Area Brains, Greatest of All Time, or Jeopardy! Masters.)

We will get to see contestants from the lakes of Minnesota to the hills of Tennessee, across the plains of Texas from sea to shining sea, from Detroit down to Houston and New York to LA and everywhere in between.  We will also see contestants from Canada and other foreign countries.

We will also see a very young Greg Proops as a contestant long before Whose Line is it Anyway? and Michael Reilly before he became the host of Monopoly.

We will also get to travel to Sweden for the 1997 International Tournament of Champions, DAR Constitution Hall in DC for the Teen Tournaments of 1997, 2012 and 2016, Kids Week in 2004, the 2016 Teacher's Tournament as well as all of Power Players Weeks, Zellerbach Auditorium at Cal-Berkeley for the 1998 College Championship, the Wang Center for the Performing Arts for the Teen Reunion Tournament in 1998, Chicago's historic Rosemont Theater for the 1999 College Championship, the Theater at Madison Square Garden for the 1999 Teen Tournament and Celebrity Jeopardy!, the Civic Center in Atlanta for the 2000 Tournament of Champions, Meany Hall at the University of Washington for the 2000 College Championship, the Hilton in Las Vegas for Celebrity Jeopardy! and the 2001 International Tournament of Champions, the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia for the 2001 Teen Tournament, Pauley Pavilion at UCLA for the 2001 College Championship, Radio City Music Hall for the Million Dollar Tournament of Masters in 2002 and 2006 Celebrity Jeopardy!, Value City Arena at evil Ohio State in 2002, Payne Whitney Gymnasium at Yale for the 2003 College Championship, the Petersen Events Center in Pittsburgh in 2004, PNC Arena in Raleigh for the 2005 College Championship, Galen Center at Southern Cal for the 2007 College Championship, Kohl Center in Madison for the 2008 College Championship, the Convention Center in Las Vegas for the 2009 Tournament of Champions and IBM's headquarters for the Watson games in 2011.

We will see how Jeopardy! has evolved from its earliest days to the present day.  (No word on whether we will see its prior spinoffs Jep!, Rock & Roll Jeopardy! and Sports Jeopardy! again.)

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