"Jet Set (game show) Jet Set is a BBC National Lottery game show which was broadcast on BBC One from 20 January 2001 to 8 August 2007. It was hosted by Eamonn Holmes. Six studio contestants compete against one another for a chance to face off against the previous week's champion, with a week's luxury vacation for two at stake. Each contestant in turn is given a category and must decide whether to play it or pass to an opponent. A question is then asked; a contestant who answers incorrectly, or who passes to an opponent who answers correctly, is"
"30, 2017, he was named an Officer of the Order of Canada by then Governor General David Johnston for ""his iconic achievements in television and for his promotion of learning, notably as a champion for geographical literacy."" Alex Trebek George Alexander Trebek (born July 22, 1940) is a Canadian-American television personality. He has been the host of the syndicated game show ""Jeopardy!"" since it was revived in 1984, and has also hosted a number of other game shows, including ""The Wizard of Odds"", ""Double Dare"", ""High Rollers"", ""Battlestars"", ""Classic Concentration"", and ""To Tell the Truth"". Trebek has made appearances in"
"Art Fleming Arthur Fleming Fazzin (May 1, 1924 – April 25, 1995) was an American actor and television host. He is most notable for being the original host of the television game show ""Jeopardy!"", which aired on NBC from 1964 until 1975. Fleming was born in New York City. His parents, William and Marie Fazzin, had immigrated to the United States from Austria. They were a popular dance team in Europe, who had brought their show to America. Their son Art was a varsity letterman football player at James Monroe High School in New York City, standing 6 feet 4"
"final episode of the 1990s edition of Match Game aired on ABC. Bewitched season 7 episode 6 as Paul Revere Bert Convy Bernard (Bert) Whalen Convy (July 23, 1933 – July 15, 1991) was an American actor, singer, game show host and panelist known for hosting ""Tattletales"", ""Super Password"" and ""Win, Lose or Draw"". Convy was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Bernard Fleming and Monica (""née"" Whalen) Convy. Convy's family moved to Los Angeles when he was seven years old. He later attended North Hollywood High School where he was an all-around athlete. The Philadelphia Phillies offered"
"Alex Trebek George Alexander Trebek (born July 22, 1940) is a Canadian-American television personality. He has been the host of the syndicated game show ""Jeopardy!"" since it was revived in 1984, and has also hosted a number of other game shows, including ""The Wizard of Odds"", ""Double Dare"", ""High Rollers"", ""Battlestars"", ""Classic Concentration"", and ""To Tell the Truth"". Trebek has made appearances in numerous television series, usually portraying himself. A native of Canada, he became a naturalized United States citizen in 1998. Trebek signed a contract to host ""Jeopardy!"" until 2022 on October 31, 2018. Trebek was born in Sudbury,"
"""227"". Gilbert is married to his wife Sharee. Johnny Gilbert John L. Gilbert III (born July 13, 1924) is an American show business personality who has worked mainly on television game shows. Originally a nightclub singer and entertainer, he has hosted and announced a number of game shows from various eras, dating as far back as the 1950s. He is known primarily for his work as the announcer and audience host for the syndicated version of the quiz show ""Jeopardy!"". Gilbert was born in Newport News, Virginia. He began performing by singing as a boy in his hometown Lutheran Church"
"presenters during this period included Dale Winton, Carol Smillie, Terry Wogan and Ulrika Jonsson. On 30 November 1996, live on BBC One, the draw machine failed to start. During the ""2000 Today"" broadcast on 31 December 1999, a special ""Big Draw 2000"" drawing was held to ring in the new millennium. This returned on 31 December 2002 as ""Big Draw 2003"". On 20 May 2006, during the draw on ""The National Lottery Jet Set"" that took place minutes before the Eurovision Song Contest 2006, several members of the group Fathers 4 Justice protested on the set causing the show to"
"Dale Winton Dale Jonathan Winton (22 May 1955 – 18 April 2018) was an English radio DJ and television presenter. He presented the shows ""Dale's Supermarket Sweep"" from 1993 until 2001 and again in 2007, the National Lottery game show """" between 2002 and 2016 and the 2008 series of ""Hole in the Wall"". Winton also presented ""Pets Win Prizes"" (1995–96) and ""The Other Half"" (1997–2002). Winton was born on 22 May 1955 to a Jewish father, Gary Winton, and actress Sheree Winton, a Jewish convert. Winton's father died on the day of his bar mitzvah and Winton was brought"
"Pat Sajak Pat Sajak ( , born Patrick Leonard ; October 26, 1946) is an American television personality, former weatherman, and talk show host, best known as the host of the American television game show ""Wheel of Fortune"". Born in Chicago on October 26, 1946, Sajak was also raised there, the son of Joyce Helen (Brandecka) and Leonard Anthony Sajdak, a factory worker, who died when Sajak was young. All of his grandparents were Polish. His mother remarried Walter Backal. Sajak graduated from Farragut High School in 1964, then went to Columbia College Chicago while working as a desk clerk"
"donated their winnings to the charity of their choice. Of these celebrities, Gene Simmons was the most successful, winning $500,000 for Glazer Pediatrics AIDS Foundation. In addition to these celebrities, former ""Jeopardy!"" champion Ken Jennings and Nobel Prize winner George Smoot, both of whom were playing on their own behalf, won $500,000 and $1,000,000 respectively. Jennings's stint on the show helped propel him back into the lead for the most money won on game shows by one person in the United States. A half-hour daily syndicated version of the show, also with Foxworthy as host, began airing on September 21,"
"Jimmy Kimmel James Christian Kimmel (born November 13, 1967) is an American television host, comedian, writer, and producer. He is the host and executive producer of ""Jimmy Kimmel Live!"", a late-night talk show that premiered on ABC in 2003. Kimmel hosted the Primetime Emmy Awards in 2012 and 2016, and the Academy Awards in 2017, 2018 and now 2019. Before hosting ""Jimmy Kimmel Live!"", he was best known as the co-host of Comedy Central's ""The Man Show"" and ""Win Ben Stein's Money"". Kimmel has also produced such shows as ""Crank Yankers"", ""Sports Show with Norm Macdonald"", and ""The Andy Milonakis"
"Jep! Jep! is an American children's television game show, adapted from the quiz show ""Jeopardy!"". It aired first on Game Show Network throughout the 1998–99 season, and then on Discovery Kids through late 2004. It was hosted by cartoon voice actor Bob Bergen, and created by Scott Sternberg who had earlier created ""Wheel 2000"", a children's version of ""Wheel of Fortune"". The show's production involved many of the daily syndicated ""Jeopardy!"" then-current personnel, including director Kevin McCarthy and four of the nine writers that the show employed at the time, and Alex Trebek, the main ""Jeopardy!"" series' host, served as"
"Bert Convy Bernard (Bert) Whalen Convy (July 23, 1933 – July 15, 1991) was an American actor, singer, game show host and panelist known for hosting ""Tattletales"", ""Super Password"" and ""Win, Lose or Draw"". Convy was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Bernard Fleming and Monica (""née"" Whalen) Convy. Convy's family moved to Los Angeles when he was seven years old. He later attended North Hollywood High School where he was an all-around athlete. The Philadelphia Phillies offered him a contract when he was just 17 and he played two years of minor league baseball in 1951–52. He"
"September 10, 1984. Both NBC versions and the weekly syndicated version were hosted by Art Fleming. Don Pardo served as announcer until 1975, and John Harlan announced for the 1978–1979 show. Since its inception, the daily syndicated version has featured Alex Trebek as host and Johnny Gilbert as announcer. With over 7,000 episodes aired, the daily syndicated version of ""Jeopardy!"" has won a record 33 Daytime Emmy Awards as well as a Peabody Award. In 2013, the program was ranked No. 45 on ""TV Guide""s list of the 60 greatest shows in American television history. ""Jeopardy!"" has also gained a"
"if they lose. Until 1987, each of the celebrities bet on all the performances and the most accurate one was selected to be that show's ""Wettkönig"" (""bet king""). Ever since, one of the people performing the task is selected by a telephone vote. Celebrities that have appeared on the show included a vast range of personalities, with repeated guests including the likes of Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez, Tom Cruise, Angelina Jolie, Cameron Diaz, Brad Pitt, Naomi Campbell, Michael Douglas, Michael Jackson, Jennifer Aniston, David Beckham, Hugh Grant, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Claudia Schiffer, Heidi Klum, Bill Gates, Karl Lagerfeld, Mikhail Gorbachev and"
"same plot at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California. Tomarken was survived by his three children from his first marriage. Peter Tomarken Peter David Tomarken (December 7, 1942March 13, 2006) was an American television personality primarily known as the host of game show ""Press Your Luck"". Tomarken was born in Olean, New York, the middle son of Barnett and Pearl Tomarken, who owned Dee's Jewelry store in Olean. His family was Jewish. One of his brothers, Ed, went on to become a professor at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio - a fact Tomarken mentioned on an episode of"
"titled “I’m Coming Home,” which has since served as a voice for the experience of military families around the country. He also stars in a series of commercials for Bosley Hair Restoration.[3] On October 16, 2015, Rogers appeared as the new host of Discovery Channel's ""Gold Rush - The Dirt. On January 13, 2017, Rogers was a guest on ""The Ellen Show"" with his daughter, Samantha, to advocate for cystic fibrosis research. Matthew Rogers Matthew Wyatt ""Matt"" Rogers (born September 16, 1978) is an American television host and country singer. He was also one of the finalists on the third"
"In May 2006 Jolly and five other fathers rights activists protested during the showing of the BBC lottery show ""The National Lottery: Jet Set"". The show was taken off-air for several minutes after protesters ran from the audience onto the stage displaying posters. The protesters were soon removed from the studio and the lottery draws were hurriedly finished in order to start coverage of the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest. In June 2006 Jolly Stanesby admitted he was ""lucky"" to escape with only a fine after trying to disrupt the Queen’s birthday celebrations. Stanesby and Tony Ashby another Fathers 4 Justice"
"Jerry Lester Jerry Lester (February 16, 1910 – March 23, 1995) was an American comedian, singer and performer on radio, television and the stage, who hosted the first network late night television program as host of ""Broadway Open House"" on NBC, a vaudeville-esque combination of comedy and music, whose success demonstrated the potential for late-night television and led to the creation of the ""Tonight Show"". Jerry Lester was born in Chicago in 1910. His father was a music critic. As a youth, Lester competed in dance contests and performed in various venues. Following his graduation from Northwestern University, he performed"
"1978 to 1979. Art Fleming hosted the program during its entire run on NBC. The current version of ""Jeopardy!"" debuted in first-run syndication in September 1984, with Alex Trebek as host. It followed the same basic format as the NBC version, with larger prize money and a futuristic set. With the exception of a 39-episode block of weekly shows placed into syndication near the end of the first NBC run in 1974 and 1975, ""Jeopardy!"" has aired its first-run episodes five days a week throughout its existence. Various international versions of ""Jeopardy!"" have been produced for countries other than the"
"amount on the wheels; if successful, $100 was awarded; otherwise, the contestant received a ""Joker"" T-shirt as a consolation prize. During the final first-run week of this version (March 4–8, 1991), the format reverted to the original format without categories. On May 17, 2017, it was announced that TBS would reboot the show with Snoop Dogg acting as host and serving as the executive producer along with Michael Strahan. The revival premiered on October 24, 2017. In January 2018, the show was renewed for a second season. Jeannie Mai served as hostess in the first season. Beginning in the second"
"Johnny Gilbert John L. Gilbert III (born July 13, 1924) is an American show business personality who has worked mainly on television game shows. Originally a nightclub singer and entertainer, he has hosted and announced a number of game shows from various eras, dating as far back as the 1950s. He is known primarily for his work as the announcer and audience host for the syndicated version of the quiz show ""Jeopardy!"". Gilbert was born in Newport News, Virginia. He began performing by singing as a boy in his hometown Lutheran Church choir. Although his parents had never worked in"
"Celebrity Jeopardy! (Saturday Night Live) Celebrity Jeopardy! is a series of sketches that aired regularly on the television comedy/variety show ""Saturday Night Live"" between 1996 and 2002, the years when Will Ferrell was a cast member. It parodies the same-named special event on the television quiz show ""Jeopardy!"" that features competition between notable individuals with all winnings going towards charitable organizations, and significant reductions to the game's level of difficulty. Fifteen sketches aired between December 1996 and February 2015: two sketches per season from 1996 to 2002; and one each in 2005 and 2009, when Ferrell returned to the show"
"Angeles version in 2009. Kimmel has been a fundraiser for the Democratic Party. Jimmy Kimmel James Christian Kimmel (born November 13, 1967) is an American television host, comedian, writer, and producer. He is the host and executive producer of ""Jimmy Kimmel Live!"", a late-night talk show that premiered on ABC in 2003. Kimmel hosted the Primetime Emmy Awards in 2012 and 2016, and the Academy Awards in 2017, 2018 and now 2019. Before hosting ""Jimmy Kimmel Live!"", he was best known as the co-host of Comedy Central's ""The Man Show"" and ""Win Ben Stein's Money"". Kimmel has also produced such"
"The National Lottery: In It to Win It The National Lottery: In It to Win It is a BBC National Lottery game show which was broadcast on BBC One from 18 May 2002 to 16 July 2016. It was hosted by Dale Winton. Five contestants compete for a chance to win up to £100,000. They are initially seated in the Waiting Area, on one side of the studio, and each is assigned one of five colours. One ball is drawn at random from a lottery machine, and the contestant matching its colour crosses the studio to sit in Winners' Row."
"Jay Jackson Jesse Greene ""Jay"" Jackson (November 4, 1918 – August 16, 2005) was an American radio and television quiz show host and announcer. Jackson was the master of ceremonies of the panel quiz show ""Twenty Questions"" when it aired on the ABC Television Network starting in early 1953 and ending in May 1955. He then hosted the nighttime version of the popular quiz show ""Tic-Tac-Dough"" from its debut on September 12, 1957 through September 1958, yielding that job to Win Elliot for the remaining 13 weeks of the show's nighttime run (September 1957 – December 1958). Jackson was featured"
"Beat the Odds Beat the Odds is an American game show created by Bill Derman for Bing Crosby Productions. It first aired as a local production on KTLA in Los Angeles, California in 1961 with Mike Stokey as host and Stan Chambers as announcer. Dennis James succeeded Stokey as host in 1962, and the last episode aired in August 1963. The format was revived for syndication, debuting nationally on December 16, 1968 with Johnny Gilbert as host and Bill Baldwin as announcer. This version of the show lasted until September 1969. In the show, contestants competed to form words after"
"2006 during the live broadcast of ""National Lottery: Jet Set"" the studio was invaded by members of the Fathers 4 Justice campaign group, causing the show to go briefly off air while the protesters were removed. This was also a problem as that night's lottery broadcast ran straight into the Eurovision Song Contest 2006. For ""Question Time"" on 22 October 2009, the BBC invited the leader of the British National Party, Nick Griffin, onto the programme for the first time causing heated public debate and strong protests outside the studios. Television Centre had its security breached with around 30 anti-fascist"
"since been dropped from BBC iPlayer as of 8 April 2017, and since 1 April 2016, draws are now broadcast exclusively on their official channel on YouTube. On 12 April 2018, it was announced that the televised Saturday night draw would be aired on ITV with Stephen Mulhern as the new host, being renamed to ""The National Lottery Results"". The first show was presented by Noel Edmonds. After the first show, it was either co-presented by Anthea Turner and Gordon Kennedy, or Bob Monkhouse, all of them assisted by the psychic Mystic Meg. Carol Vorderman had a segment during the"
"Al ""Jazzbo"" Collins Albert Richard ""Jazzbo"" Collins (January 4, 1919 – September 30, 1997) was an American disc jockey, radio personality and recording artist who was briefly the host of NBC television's ""Tonight"" show in 1957. Born in Rochester, New York, in 1919, Collins grew up on Long Island, New York. In 1941, while attending the University of Miami in Florida, he substituted as the announcer on his English teacher's campus radio program and decided he wanted to be in radio. Collins began his professional career as the disc jockey at a bluegrass station in Logan, West Virginia; by 1943,"
"by ""Jeopardy!"" host Alex Trebek for its first 25 years (1989-2013). However, at the 2013 National Geographic Bee, Trebek announced that 2013 would be his last year hosting the Finals. Newscaster Soledad O'Brien took his place the following year, moderating the bee in 2014 and 2015. O'Brien was then replaced by Mo Rocca in 2016, 2017, and 2018. The current champion is Venkat Ranjan, from Windemere Ranch Middle School in San Ramon, California. The competition begins at the elementary school and middle school levels (4th grade - 8th grade) and usually occurs in November, December, or January. This competition requires"
"Most Influential Man of 2010 by AskMen. Jon Stewart Jon Stewart (born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz; November 28, 1962) is an American comedian, writer, producer, director, political commentator, actor, and television host. He hosted ""The Daily Show"", a satirical news program on Comedy Central, from 1999 to 2015. Stewart started as a stand-up comedian but branched into television as host of ""Short Attention Span Theater"" for Comedy Central. He went on to host ""The Jon Stewart Show"" and then ""You Wrote It, You Watch It"", both on MTV. Stewart has also had several film roles as an actor but did few"
"Jackpot (game show) Jackpot (also referred to as Jackpot!) is an American and Canadian television game show produced by Bob Stewart which saw contestants attempting to solve riddles in order to win cash and prizes. ""Jackpot"" made its debut on the NBC television network on January 7, 1974 as part of their daytime schedule and ran until September 26, 1975. The show videotaped in New York City, where Stewart was based at the time, and was hosted by Geoff Edwards. In 1985, Stewart teamed up with USA Network and Global Television Network for a revival that aired in both the"