Mike Richards, the veteran TV producer who briefly succeeded Alex Trebek because the host of the quiz present Jeopardy!, has landed a giant job in conservative media.
Richards has joined The Every day Wire as its subsequent president of Every day Wire leisure and chief content material officer, main all of the leisure operations of the conservative media firm based by Ben Shapiro.
Richards joins after the exit of Jeremy Boreing, who stepped down as CEO of the corporate again in March, and is anticipated to work out of its Nashville headquarters.
Caleb Robinson succeeded Boreing as CEO of the corporate.
His rent means that The Every day Wire will proceed its ambitions past politics and information commentary, although it could cut back a few of the efforts Boreing championed, which included a non-figure funding into youngsters’s programming, and massive funds bets like The Pendragon Cycle.
“We knew the reply was, ‘Who’s Mike Richards?’ And now we are able to say ‘he’s an integral a part of The Every day Wire’ was the query,” mentioned Gloria Taylor, a rep for The Every day Wire. “He’s gained 5 Emmy’s, produced over 4,000 hours of community programming, and run a few of the most iconic exhibits the world has ever recognized. Thanks to the purple hairs. Please ‘cancel’ extra inventive geniuses.”
Shapiro leveraged a mixture of political opinionating and popular culture to construct the corporate into one of many largest gamers in conservative media outdoors of the standard ecosystems.
Richards, after all, had a prolonged profession as each a sport present producer and host, together with lengthy stints at The Worth Is Proper and Let’s Make a Deal, earlier than becoming a member of Sony and turning into the manager producer of Jepardy!.
Following Alex Trebek’s loss of life in 2020, Jeopardy! featured rotating visitor hosts for months, together with a number of stints through which Richards himself hosted. Sony, which produced the quiz present, named Richards the everlasting host of this system in August 2020.
That position was short-lived, nevertheless, after feedback he made on outdated podcasts got here to mild.
“As I discussed final week, I used to be deeply honored to be requested to host the syndicated present and was thrilled by the chance to increase my position,” Richards informed workers after the feedback got here out. “Nevertheless, over the past a number of days it has change into clear that transferring ahead as host could be an excessive amount of of a distraction for our followers and never the appropriate transfer for the present.”
He subsequently additionally stepped apart as EP of the present.