'Jeopardy!' leads game show nominees at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards

For the entertainment-related entry I promised my readers yesterday, I'm writing about a genre I've generally avoided in a dozen plus years of blogging, game shows. That's because I blog about the Primetime and Creative Arts Emmy Awards, not the Daytime Emmy Awards, which recognized game shows until this year, when they were moved to the Creative Arts Emmy Awards. That's enough, along with covering RuPaul's Drag Race, a competition reality show, which is an adjacent genre, to get me to write about them beginning here and now. Without any further ado, here are the nominations for game shows at this season's ceremony.

Outstanding Game Show
Family Feud (ABC / Syndicated)
Jeopardy! (ABC / Syndicated)
The Price Is Right (CBS)
That's My Jam (NBC)
Wheel of Fortune (Syndicated)

I have four reasons to pick Jeopardy! First, it won this award at last year's Daytime Emmy Awards. I know I keep saying that electorates matter in these awards show posts, but in this case I expect the new electorate to agree with the old one. So do the experts at Gold Derby, all of whom chose Jeopardy! That's my second reason. The third is that it has more nominations than its competition, three. Its nearest competitors, Family Feud and Wheel of Fortune, have two each. Fourth, it's my personal favorite, as it actually tests how smart its contestants are and it educates its viewers as it entertains them.*

Outstanding Host for a Game Show
Mayim Bialik – Jeopardy! (ABC / Syndicated)
Steve Harvey – Family Feud (ABC / Syndicated)
Ken Jennings – Jeopardy! (ABC / Syndicated)
Keke Palmer – Password (NBC)
Pat Sajak – Wheel of Fortune (Syndicated)

On the other hand, electorates do matter for this category. The Daytime Emmy Awards voters didn't even nominate Mayim Bialik, Ken Jennings, and Keke Palmer last year, instead nominating Wayne Brady for Let's Make a Deal, Leah Remini for People Puzzler and Pat Sajak twice, once for Wheel of Fortune and again for Celebrity Wheel of Fortune. The only returning nominee is Steve Harvey, who won last year. He's not favored this year. Instead, I'm agreeing with the experts at Gold Derby, three of whom forecast Mayim Bialik while the fourth chose Ken Jennings to win. The odds tie Jennings with Emmy winner Keke Palmer for second, which is why I'm featuring her promotional Twitter image here.

*It's also the only one I tried out for. I didn't get past the first round of auditions, as I didn't know who Porky Pig's girlfriend was (Petunia) and miscounted the number of zeros in a trillion (twelve). Oops. That made me relate to "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. Just the same, it makes for a perfect preview of the entry I have planned for World Television Day tomorrow, which I foreshadowed in Broken Peach sings 'One Way or Another' from 'Hocus Pocus 2' for Halloween.

Speaking of Hocus Pocus 2, I thought it should be nominated for Outstanding Television Movie. It was, along with Dolly Parton's Mountain Magic Christmas, Fire Island, Prey, and Weird: The Al Yankovic Story. I don't think it will win; the experts at Gold Derby have it tied for last place with Weird: The Al Yankovic Story and Prey tied for first. I plan on writing more about that category and the other nominations for TV movies when I resume my series on the Primetime and Creative Arts Emmy Awards. In the meantime, called that, too.

Stay tuned.

Previous posts about the 2023 Primetime and Creative Arts Emmy Awards

• Dove's 'Cost of Beauty' the sole PSA among the 2023 Emmy nominees for Outstanding Commercial
• 'The Territory' leads nominees for Exceptional Merit In Documentary Filmmaking at the 2023 Emmy Awards
• Barack Obama defends his Emmy against Hollywood all-stars narrating nature and science documentaries
• The music of 'Prehistoric Planet 2' earned the series its first Emmy nomination
• 'Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy' defends its Emmy for Outstanding Hosted Nonfiction Series or Special
• '100 Foot Wave' has the most nominations but experts think 'The U.S. and the Holocaust' and 'The 1619 Project' have best chances to win Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series at the Emmy Awards
• 'Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie' leads nominees for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special at the Emmy Awards
• 'Good Night Oppy' has six nominations at the News & Documentary Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Science and Technology Documentary and Best Documentary
• HBO dramas and 'SNL' split the nominees for Outstanding Short Form Nonfiction or Reality Series at the 2023 Emmy Awards
• 'Welcome to Wrexham' leads unstructured reality programs at the 2023 Emmy Awards
• 'Queer Eye' leads structured reality shows at the Emmys - again
• Primetime and Creative Arts Emmy Awards shows postponed indefinitely because of strikes
• Nixon saying 'Sock it to me' and Outstanding Talk Series Emmy nominees for Presidential Joke Day
• Celebrate Star Trek Day with two Emmy nominations for 'Star Trek: Picard'
• Pete Davidson hosts as 'Saturday Night Live' returns
• A late celebration of RuPaul's birthday with the Emmy nominations for 'Drag Race'