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T22 WHATS UP! October 23 - 29, 2022 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert In the wake of the storm [Hur- ricane Ian], some Floridians are finding catfish in their front yards. And to make mat - ters worse, they were nowhere near as hot as their profile pic- ture. The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Last night in Toronto, Yankees superstar Aaron Judge hit his 61st home run of the season, ty - ing Roger Maris's American League record. ... Fans waited 61 years for this to happen. That's right, six decades of waiting for one exciting mo - ment: that sums up baseball pretty well. It was just revealed that during the FBI's search of Mar-a-Lago, they seized 200,000 pages of documents from the former president. ... If the FBI delayed their search another day, the TV show "Hoarders" would have beat them to it. I read that the Nord Stream pipelines, which funnel gas from Russia to Europe, have started leaking due to underwa- ter explosions and the U.S. and Europe think Russia is respon- sible. Yup, a leaky pipeline. To- day President Biden was like, "Oh, I have a great urologist for that!" Jimmy Kimmel Live! Congresswoman Marjorie Tay- lor Greene [is] getting divorced. She and her husband, Perry Greene, filed for divorce yester- day after 27 years. ... His original sentence was 30 years, but the judge shaved three years off for good behaviour. In the space where he had to state the reason for the divorce, he wrote "I am married to Marjorie Taylor Greene." The richest man in America is now Elon Musk. According to the new Forbes 400 list, Elon Musk is worth around $251 bil- lion. He beat out Jeff Bezos, who topped the list last year. Bezos ceded his spot at No. 1 in a show of solidarity with employees who aren't allowed to go No. 1 on the job. Yesterday [Sept. 26], NASA went full "Armageddon" (1998) and successfully hit an aster- oid with a spacecraft, in what is — they say — the world's first planetary defense mis- sion. Which is exciting news for everyone other than the Space Force. They were like, "Can't you let us have any- thing?" Late Night With Seth Meyers According to a new book, for- mer president Trump would tell White House visitors that he had a secret bathroom. And visitors would tell him, "Sir, that's just a closet." Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said yesterday that he will support the bipartisan bill to reform the Electoral Count Act of 1887. I guess he still feels bad about voting no the first time. President Biden's plan to forgive $10,000 per borrower in Federal Student Loan debt will cost nearly $400 billion, or in student loan terms, $27 per month for 30 billion years. According to new data, corona- virus cases are rising in the U.K. Maybe because last week the en- tire country attended the same event. The Late Late Show with James Cordon Exciting news for any fans of the Apple TV+ series "Ted Lasso." The entire fictional team, AFC Richmond, will now be playable video game characters in FIFA 23, which comes out tomorrow [Sept. 30]. Finally, a video game where you can play a trauma- tized divorced guy with a mous- tache. Today [Sept. 28] President Biden kicked off a two-day sum- mit at the White House where he's hosting multiple leaders from Pacific Island nations. ... Biden wants to show that the United States remains commit- ted to being an enduring player in the region, and also, Biden wants to know why so many tropical drinks have got little umbrellas. The drink's already wet, what are you protecting it from? LATE LAUGHS BY MICHELLE ROSE TV Media Future of 'Jeopardy': More "Jeopardy!"? On the heels of the recent "Celebrity Jeopardy!" re- vival and "Second Chance Tour- nament," and with a revamped "Tournament of Champions" set to begin next week, executive producer Michael Davies is re- portedly considering further ex- panding the "Jeopardy!" uni- verse. In an interview with the New York Times, Davies discussed future possibilities and ideas for additional spinoffs, including a Masters League that would fea- ture the show's winningest play- ers. "What we really need to de- velop is the pro-level version of the game," said Davies, who also co-hosts the soccer pod- cast "Men in Blazers" and is known to refer to "Jeopardy!" as a sport. "It seemed ridiculous to me that we have this sport ["Jeopardy!"] where every sin- gle year we take all of our best players — we take our LeBrons and our Dwyanes — and we switch them all out." Davies, who was the producer of "Who Wants To Be A Million- aire" when that show took off, also indicated he'd like to see this expansion air live but con- cedes the idea "makes a lot of my staff nervous." Another possible spinoff might focus solely on sports and pop culture trivia. "Jeopardy!" has experienced a few tumultuous years since the death of longtime host Alex Trebek in 2020. Davies officially became the show's full-time ex- ecutive producer in April, re- placing former host/executive producer Mike Richards after his ousting due to derogatory comments he made in the past. Before that, the search for a replacement host saw multiple guest hosts (including "Reading Rainbow's" LeVar Burton) tak- ing turns behind the podium. Ken Jennings ("The Chase") and Mayim Bialik ("The Big Bang Theory") were ultimately an- nounced as permanent hosts in July, with Jennings heading up hosting duties until December and Bialik taking up the reins in January. With the host issue settled and ratings remaining steady, "Jeopardy!" and its production team can now look ahead to the future. Speaking to Variety at the 2022 Daytime Emmy Awards, before Bialik and Jennings had formally signed on, Davies teased, "With all of our plans for 'Jeopardy!' — which is more 'Jeopardy!,' not less, more ver- sions — we're going to need multiple hosts to represent the entire audience, to represent the entire country, in order to take this franchise forward." 'Them': Amazon's horror an- thology series "Them" is round- ing out its cast for Season 2. Pop culture icon Pam Grier ("Foxy Brown," 1974), Luke James ("The Chi") and Season 1 star Deborah Ayorinde ("Harri- et," 2019) have been tapped as series leads for Season 2, which is formally known as "Them: The Scare." Like "Them: Covenant," the story for "Them: The Scare" will be set in Los Angeles Coun- ty, but this time in 1991, 40 years after the events of Season 1. In the new season, Ayorinde will play LAPD Det. Dawn Reeve, who is assigned to a gruesome murder case that has left the most hardened detectives in the Robbery Homicide Division shaken. According to the offi- cial description, something ma- levolent grips Dawn and her family as she draws closer to the truth. Grier will play Dawn's mother, Athena, who is described as me- ticulous, clever and prideful, "but her Mama Bear qualities hide secrets." James, meanwhile, will star as Edmund Gaines, an aspiring actor and a seemingly sensitive soul who feels a deep void within. Joshua J. Williams ("Mud- bound," 2017) and Jeremy Bobb ("Russian Doll") have also been tapped as regulars in Season 2. Williams will play Dawn's teen- age son, Kelvin "Kel" Reeves, who is harboring a secret from both his mother and grandmoth- er, and Bobb will play Dawn's partner, Det. Ronald McKinney, who has a reputation for closing cases quickly, occasionally through questionable means. Order up: Jon Cryer's por- trayal of iconic villain Lex Lu- thor in CW's "Supergirl" and other DC universe TV shows has proven to be a hit with fans (despite some initial misgivings when casting was first an- nounced), but the former "Two and a Half Men" star is moving over to NBC for his next TV project. The network recently gave a series order to a still-untitled comedy series from creator Mike O'Malley ("Survivor's Re- morse") and Cryer, who will serve as both star and executive producer. The show tells the story of Jim (Cryer) and Julia (Abigail Spen- cer, "Grey's Anatomy"), a couple who are going through an ami- cable divorce. They have decid- ed to continue raising their kids in the family home while taking turns staying with them, but it gets more complicated for Jim when Trey (Donald Faison, "Scrubs"), the owner of his fa- vorite sports team, enters the picture and wins Julia's heart. O'Malley will serve as show- runner alongside two real-life Boston sports team owners: Tom Werner, owner of the Red Sox, and Wyc Grousbeck, owner of the Celtics. Ken Jennings, host of "Jeopardy!" STARS ON SCREEN