Jeopardy! Masters returned for its third season on Wednesday evening (April 30), however many viewers didn’t come again with it, with the season premiere down considerably from final yr’s opener.
In keeping with TVSeriesFinale.com, citing Nielsen scores, the Jeopardy! Masters Season 3 premiere, which aired at 9 pm on ABC, scored 3.12 million whole viewers and 0.28 within the coveted 18-49 demo. This was down almost 35% from final season’s premiere of 0.43 within the demo and round 25% in whole viewers (4.27 million).
Compared, Superstar Wheel of Fortune, which aired at 8 pm, was up on final season’s premiere in whole viewers, with 3.04 million in comparison with 2.885. The demo dropped barely, from 0.40 final season to 0.33 this season. That is Pat Sajak‘s remaining season as Wheel host.
It needs to be famous that Superstar Wheel aired at 9 pm final season and has been moved to eight pm this yr. In the meantime, Jeopardy! Masters has moved from 8 pm to 9 pm. The Jeopardy! Fan‘s Andy Saunders has cited this time change as the principle cause for the numerous scores drop for Masters.
“I imagine the #1 reason behind the drop in scores for the primetime choices this season is the truth that ABC moved the time slot from 8:00 to 9:00. It’s my perception that 9:00 is just too late of a time for the common Jeopardy! viewer to have the brainpower to really feel like they’ll play alongside at house,” Saunders wrote.
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He added, “Even my very own mother and father save the episode till the following morning to look at. For primetime Jeopardy! to achieve success, it must air as early within the evening as potential—and 9:00 shouldn’t be conducive to that. It has completely nothing to do with overexposure of the format—and I’m positive some on Reddit will make that case over the following week—and every little thing to do with the truth that it’s airing too late at evening for the common viewer to productively watch.”
As Saunders predicted, many followers on the Jeopardy! Reddit discussion board did blame the scores crash on the oversaturation of Jeopardy. Along with common syndicated Jeopardy!, the sequence now airs Pop Tradition Jeopardy! on Prime Video, has simply completed airing Superstar Jeopardy!, and incessantly holds tournaments (together with the Event of Champions, Second Likelihood, the Jeopardy! Invitational, Champions Wildcard, and many others).
“Jeopardy overload maybe? Regular, superstar, popular culture, masters…..” wrote one Reddit person.
“I agree that pushing the airtime again an hour later damage Superstar and Masters, and I additionally suppose the oversaturation of Jeopardy spin-offs contributed. Concerning Andy’s phrases, it may be each causes,” stated one other.
One other added, “It’s completely oversaturation. My household loves Jeopardy, however nobody is ready to watch a number of streams all through the day or week. We by no means miss an episode of the common or TOC, however superstar/faculty/masters is an excessive amount of.”
“They’ve taken a can’t-miss present and turned it right into a present even essentially the most devoted fan could be challenged to look at each episode,” wrote one commenter.
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One other countered this, saying, “Is the expectation that devoted followers will watch each episode? I’ve interpreted it way more as “now we have a taste of Jeopardy for everybody” and fewer that “you received’t have the ability to observe in the event you don’t watch each episode”. The present has stated that’s their intention too.”
“This is the reason Jeopardy Masters must be a like each 5 yr occasion or one thing. The burnout is actual and the competitors isn’t at the same time as thrilling because the previous,” stated one person.
One other commenter put the blame on the kind of questions, writing, “An enormous a part of the enjoyable of Jeopardy is taking part in alongside at house. I can’t communicate for anybody however myself, however Jeopardy Masters is so difficult that I really feel like an fool watching it. I would get 4 or 5 right responses throughout the entire recreation.”
Others stated Masters isn’t as interesting this yr because it’s lacking fan favorites equivalent to Amy Schneider, Sam Buttrey, and James Holzhauer.
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“With out gamers like James and Sam, I used to be bored to tears final evening watching, I solely knew it was on as a result of J! despatched a e-newsletter saying it was on. And I watch all editions of J! besides Superstar,” wrote one person.
“Surprise how a lot of that is James not attending and the way a lot of an impact event fatigue actually had on this,” added one other.
“No curiosity watching with out James,” one other wrote.
One other disagreed, although, replying, “Juveria and Victoria are simply as charming and as expert as James and Sam, maybe you simply should spend some extra time with them.”
One fan stated the scores drop is probably going because of a large number of causes, citing “Event burnout, lack of promoting by ABC in comparison with the previous seasons, the truth that James isn’t there, and many others.”
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Jeopardy! Masters, Wednesdays, 9 pm, ABC, subsequent day on Hulu