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Mayim Bialik won’t be hosting the final week of this season’s “Jeopardy!” episodes in a show of solidarity with the Writers Guild of America strike.

Bialik was slated to host the final episodes of the show’s current season, which are expected to be filmed between May 16 and May 19. Her decision to abstain makes “Jeopardy!” one of the first game shows to be impacted by the ongoing writers strike. The show’s writers are some of thousands in Hollywood that have been striking since May 2 for a fair contract.

Michele Loud, one of the show’s writers, told Variety on May 6, “There is no ‘Jeopardy!’ without writers. Without us, it’s just an empty blue screen.”

However, production on “Jeopardy!” is expected to go on as scheduled with Ken Jennings taking over hosting duties…

Jeopardy! is getting a major change as a result of the ongoing Writers’ Guild of America strike. On Thursday, reports revealed that Jeopardy! host Mayim Bialik has walked away from hosting the final week of episodes for Season 39, in order to stand in solidarity with the writers’ strike. Ken Jennings, who also hosts episodes of the iconic game show, will reportedly step in to host Bialik’s episodes, which will be filmed between Tuesday, May 16th and Friday, May 19th. While Jeopardy! is technically a WGA production, the contributions of questions from WGA writers were written in advance of the strike.

Bialik and Jennings have shared hosting duties of Jeopardy! following the passing of original host Alex Trebek. Jennings hosted the batch of episodes from August through…

TGIFF. A sequel to the 2003 comedy Freaky Friday, which starred Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan as a mother and daughter who swap bodies, is officially in the works, with Curtis and Lohan both in talks to return. Disney confirmed the news to the New York Times for a piece tied to the 20th anniversary of the film, and Elyse Hollander is writing the script. Curtis told the Times that after people kept asking her if there would be another Freaky Friday during her Halloween Ends press tour last year, “When I came back, I called my friends at Disney and said, ‘It feels like there’s a movie to be made.'” Apparently, the mouse agreed. “Jamie and I are both open to that, so we’re leaving it in the hands that be,” Lohan said, promising, “We would only make something that people would…

The co-host won’t be presenting any shows for the remainder of Season 39.

MTV Movie & TV Awards will be very different from what fans have been used to due to a strike by the Writers Guild of America (WGA). Unlike before, when nominees and other artists graced the show with their presence, there won’t be any live audience this year. The award ceremony initiated in 1992 was simply MTV Movie Awards. But more than two decades later, it began to honor works on TV. Like a typical award ceremony, viewers often anticipated the annual show, including the live audience and the show’s host. However, this time, some slight changes have been influenced by the ongoing Writers Guild of America strike.

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Drew Barrymore Excitedly Announced Being Host Of the MTV Movie & TV Awards

Back in March, Drew Barrymore…