Friday, August 1, 2025

'Jeopardy!' favored to win Game Show categories at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards


Happy August! I decided to begin the month by continuing my Emmy Awards coverage with the nominees in the game show categories at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards.
Outstanding Game Show
  • Celebrity Family Feud (ABC)
  • Jeopardy! (ABC / Syndicated)
  • The Price is Right (CBS)
  • Wheel of Fortune (ABC / Syndicated)
  • Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (ABC)
Strictly speaking, Celebrity Family Feud, Jeopardy!, and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire tie for first with two nominations each. However, as the publicity image from Twitter/X in the upper right corner above shows, Jeopardy! claims a third nomination for Pop Culture Jeopardy! I'll agree and use it as a tiebreaker. Gold Derby's assessment matches my handicapping from total nominations, with all experts, 85.7% of editors, and 91.7% of users expecting the winner to be Jeopardy! It's the two-time defending winner, so that's a reasonable expectation. Celebrity Family Feud has the support of 14.3% of editors and 4.5% of users. Thanks to 1.9% of the users, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire sits in third. The long-shot picks of The Price is Right and Wheel of Fortune are the choices of 0.9% of users each.

Outstanding Host for a Game Show
  • Elizabeth Banks – Press Your Luck (ABC)
  • Steve Harvey – Celebrity Family Feud (ABC)
  • Ken Jennings – Jeopardy! (ABC / Syndicated)
  • Colin Jost – Pop Culture Jeopardy! (Prime Video)
  • Jimmy Kimmel – Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (ABC)
Despite winning the program category both times since game shows were transferred from the Daytime Emmy Awards to the Primetime Emmy Award, the hosts of Jeopardy! have never won Outstanding Host for a Game Show. The prognosticators at Gold Derby think that jinxed streak will be broken, as every expert and editor along with 77.2% of users predict that Ken Jennings will earn his first Emmy Award. Steve Harvey, the last winner of this category at the Daytime Emmys, sits in second with the support of 11.5% of users. Colin Jost, Elizabeth Banks, and Jimmy Kimmel are the choices of 4.9%, 3.6%, and 2.7% of users, respectively.

That's a wrap for today's coverage of Emmy nominations. Stay tuned to see if I resume with the nominees for Outstanding Unstructured Reality Program tomorrow. In the meantime, I close with a blast from the past, "Weird Al" Yankovic - I Lost on Jeopardy (2022 version) - excerpt.

I re-recorded a bunch of my old songs for use in the Roku Channel biopic (WEIRD: The Al Yankovic Story), and this is the one that got left on the cutting room floor. I didn't record the whole song, just one chorus - the reason being that we only needed a couple seconds of it for the movie. It was originally going to be used in the drunk driving scene, where Weird Al (Daniel Radcliffe) is repeatedly changing the channels on his car radio (and all the songs are Weird Al songs). Eric Appel (the director) and I ultimately decided that we didn't need to include this song, because we hadn't introduced it previously in the movie, and also because it would have cost us several thousand dollars extra in licensing fees. But since my band and I went through all the trouble of recording this 22-second masterpiece, we figured SOMEBODY should hear it!
Sorry, "Weird Al" Yankovic - I Lost On Jeopardy (Official HD Video) won't embed, so click the link to watch it.
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