Does it seem to anyone else ...
... that they're being more lenient on slight errors in the post-Trebek era? Things like pluralizing words that should be singular, other mispronunciations, et cetera.
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I think Dr. Oz even let a few straight out answers (not being a question) slip thru.
I've gotta think it's not just a function of who the host is. There were lots of times in the past when a contestant would give a response, then later (usually right before the next Daily Double) Trebek would say that the judges had reconsidered that response and had changed their minds, and the player's dollar amount would be adjusted. That doesn't seem to be happening some times now with responses I think would have been rejected before. So I'm wondering if this is a change in policy for the show.
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I was thinking the same thing. If you read about the goings on behind the curtain, it seems that Jeopardy is heavily edited. I've read that a lot of guests will question an answer (question) when judged wrong, but these never end up on the broadcast. I'd bet that the 20 or so minutes we see is probably more like 45.
I hadn't heard that. But I had heard that sometimes in an ambiguous case, game play pauses while the judges determine whether a response is acceptable or not, and those pauses are edited out of the broadcast. In some cases those pauses can be quite long, but they take as long as it takes.
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