FILE - Producer Mike Richards poses successful the pressroom astatine the 43rd yearly Daytime Emmy Awards connected May 1, 2016, successful Los Angeles. Richards is retired arsenic enforcement shaper of Jeopardy!, days aft helium exited arsenic the quiz shows recently appointed big due to the fact that of past misogynistic and different comments. Richards is besides nary longer enforcement shaper of Wheel of Fortune." (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

FILE - Producer Mike Richards poses successful the pressroom astatine the 43rd yearly Daytime Emmy Awards connected May 1, 2016, successful Los Angeles. Richards is retired arsenic enforcement shaper of Jeopardy!, days aft helium exited arsenic the quiz shows recently appointed big due to the fact that of past misogynistic and different comments. Richards is besides nary longer enforcement shaper of Wheel of Fortune." (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

LOS ANGELES – Mike Richards is retired arsenic enforcement shaper of “Jeopardy!”, days aft helium exited arsenic the quiz show’s recently appointed big due to the fact that of past misogynistic and different comments.

Richards is besides nary longer enforcement shaper of “Wheel of Fortune,” according to a memo to unit that was confirmed by Sony, which produces some of the shows.

“We had hoped that erstwhile Mike stepped down from the big presumption astatine Jeopardy! it would person minimized the disruption and interior difficulties we person each experienced these past fewer weeks. That intelligibly has not happened,” Suzanne Prete, an enforcement with the crippled shows, said successful the memo.

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