Did you know has won the most Emmys of any game show? The show, which has been on the air since 1964, even holds a Guinness World Record for its total 44 wins in its 60-year history (as of last July, the show has received a total of 135 Emmy nominations). Among those prizes, received its first Primetime Emmy last year. “Every Emmy win is exciting,” producer Sarah Whitcomb Foss, who has been with for 20-plus years, tells , adding that the Primetime Emmy win was “particularly special.
” “Each year the show is recognized, it feels like a wonderful affirmation that people still find it rewarding to learn new things and that this beautifully simple format that Merv Griffin created 60 years ago is still as relevant as it was back in 1964,” she adds. is, of course, the iconic quiz competition show that reverses the traditional question-and-answer format by giving general clues to contestants, who then phrase their answer in the form of a question. Fan favorite Alex Trebek hosted the show for 37 seasons until his death in 2020, and former contestant Ken Jennings, who won $4.
5 million on , was named the show’s permanent host last December. The show is in its 40th season in syndication (not counting such primetime spinoffs as and ), making it one of the longest-running game shows of all time, with more than 9,000 episodes aired. In 2011, Trebek was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, and in 2012, won a Peabod.
