The 46th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards, which are no longer television and available to stream only, were last night at the Pacific Civic Auditorium in Pasadena. ABC’ “General Hospital” was the evening’s big winner with five trophies, followed by CBS’ “The Young and the Restless,” with three, and culinary series “Valerie’s Home Cooking,” featuring Valerie Bertinelli, […]
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James Holzhauer, a professional sports gambler from Las Vegas, Nev., has been a dominant force as the current reigning champion on the game show “Jeopardy!” Holzhauer proved that once again during the Tuesday, Apr. 9 episode as he set the show’s new all-time record in single-day earnings by winning $110,914, far surpassing the nine-year mark […]
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On March 6, legendary game show host Alex Trebek announced on YouTube that he was diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer. Trebek stated in the video: “Now, just like 50,000 other people in the United States each year, this week I was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. Now normally, the prognosis for this is […]
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During the semifinal game of the ‘Jeopardy’ College Championship that originally aired on April 17, there was a category sarcastically entitled “Deep Lyrics” which featured simple lines from some of the chart-topping hit songs of recent years. The contestants had to respond with the name of the artist(s) who performed those songs. For an amusing […]
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ABC’s “General Hospital,” which was almost put out to pasture when “All My Children” and “One Life to Live” departed, leads the list of Daytime Emmy Award nominations with a hefty 26. Next is daytime dramas “Days of Our Lives” on NBC and “The Young and the Restless” on CBS, with 25 each. All three again […]
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Alex Trebek, the host of longrunning syndicated hit game show “Jeopardy“, disclosed in a YouTube video on Jan. 4 he had a “slight medical problem”: a subdural hematoma (blood clots on his brain) due to a fall he had experienced about two months prior. During the holiday weeks, Trebek had surgery done for it and […]