Jeopardy! signs it's cancellation -- not only Mikey, but a female host which doubles down on his misconduct...

I should've stayed in bed this morning.

Well, we got the announcement.  And it not only seems to validate Mike Richards' takeover of the show, it also seems to validate his misconduct with women as well.

You see, it appears that, to somewhat placate the masses, Sony Pictures decided to trade off making Richards a part-host of the show with splitting the difference with Mayim Bialik.  Richards apparently will host the main show, and now ABC is going to do prime-time specials (including the College Championship), and Bialik is slated to host those.

On surface, that wouldn't be a problem.

But now it appears that Ms. Bialik ALSO has some skeletons in her closet, and it appears they fit in quite nicely with Mr. Richards and how he tried to fuck around with the models himself on The Price Is Right.

Seven years ago, Mayim wrote a rather uncomfortable editorial in the New York Times about her relationship with the sexuality of the likes of Harvey Weinstein.

In it, she tends to blame the women and the promiscuity, saying, in part (it's paywalled), that her tomboyish appearance was a defense mechanism against it and what she admitted was a conflicted relationship.

That was a lie, Mayim:  You forget the tap dancer on top of the piano on one of the openings of Blossom, Mayim?  As much as I will admit I enjoyed it, the fact is that now you're not only victim-blaming, you're also trying to play it both ways -- probably because you had to service your own masters in that regard as well.

Not only that, but that was not dissimilar to what I did with respect to Debbie in the weeks before getting arrested -- and that is viewed as victim-blaming.

And Mayim is going to ruffle a lot of feathers the wrong way.  She's an avowed Zionist in a world where much of Conservative America believes America is more beholden to Israel than itself.  Until COVID, at least, she is or was an anti-vaxxer as well.

So, now, in trying to sully the waters, Sony Pictures has just went and made it WORSE.  Mike Richards has won his power play to host Jeopardy!, and to probably reshape it in his image.  On top of that, he's now, as a matter of trying to cover his own tracks in THAT regard, got a female co-host who probably doesn't have a problem with the conduct which got The Price Is Right sued three times under Richards' watch, and paid out a lot of money twice!

Mark it down:  The fan boycott, from what I'm reading on sites, is already beginning.  I give it two years and Jeopardy! will be gone.  Richards' first stunt to poison-pill the show has cost the show 20% of it's ratings, which it has never gotten back (Dr. Oz).