How Savannah Guthrie Pre-Filmed Hosting ‘Jeopardy’ This Week

Jeopardy! is welcoming in yet another guest host this week: Savannah Guthrie, anchor of The TODAY Show. While the TV personality has spent the last few weeks preparing for her gig on the ABC competition series, she’s also been managing her day job over at NBC. You may be wondering: if Guthrie films Today every day from Monday to Friday, will she get any sleep while she’s also filming Jeopardy!? Or is she leaving Today for the next two weeks to devote herself to this new gig? We have the answers for this week’s guest host of Jeopardy!.

“For me, the opportunity to guest host Jeopardy! was a dream come true,” Guthrie said of the experience. “I watched a lot of Jeopardy! to prepare — I watched a lot of Alex [Trebek]‘s episodes. If you want to learn how to be good at something, you watch the person who is the absolute best.”

But just how exactly did Guthrie film Jeopardy! when she hosts Today every weekday morning? This morning on her talk show, Guthrie walked viewers through some behind-the-scenes details on Jeopardy! — here’s how she filmed her 10 episodes of the game show:

Is Savannah Guthrie leaving The TODAY Show to film Jeopardy!?

No — she’s multi-tasking! Well, kind of. The episodes are pre-taped, so you’ll still see Guthrie anchoring The Today Show with Hoda Kotb this week. Keep reading to find out how she managed both jobs at once.

How did Savannah Guthrie film her Jeopardy! guest host episodes around The TODAY Show?

As stated above, episodes of Jeopardy! are pre-taped and aren’t broadcast live on ABC. Guthrie filmed her episodes a while back, though the exact date hasn’t been released. She was able to film all of her 10 episodes of Jeopardy! without leaving Today because the team films so quickly. In her segment, on Today, Guthrie explained that there’s one whole day of production meetings and rehearsals, meeting the contestants, and then it’s showtime. Jeopardy! films for two days.

“The Jeopardy! schedule is not for the faint at heart: taping 10 shows and 10 outfits in just two days,” Guthrie said. “After a whirlwind week, that was a wrap.”

Where does Jeopardy! film new episodes?

Jeopardy! films in Culver City, California. The Today Show films in New York, NY — that’s quite a distance for Guthrie to have had to traverse!

Who is the next Jeopardy! guest host? How many more guest hosts will Jeopardy! have?

After Guthrie, Jeopardy! will have six more guest hosts: Dr. Sanjay Gupta, George Stephanopoulos, Robin Roberts, LeVar Burton, David Faber, and Joe Buck. Mayim Bialik just finished her gig as guest host before Guthrie made her debut, and she was followed by celebs like Katie Couric, Dr. Oz, Aaron Rodgers, Anderson Cooper, and Bill Whitaker.

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