FILE - Producer Mike Richards poses successful the pressroom astatine the 43rd yearly Daytime Emmy Awards connected May 1, 2016, successful Los Angeles. Richards stepped down arsenic big of Jeopardy! aft a study astir past misogynistic comments surfaced this week. He was chosen past week arsenic the successor to Alex Trebek, but his enactment was seen arsenic divisive from the opening aft the amusement embarked connected a wide hunt that included actors, sports figures, journalists and celebrities. (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 stepped down arsenic big of Jeopardy! aft a study astir past misogynistic comments surfaced this week. He was chosen past week arsenic the successor to Alex Trebek, but his enactment was seen arsenic divisive from the opening aft the amusement embarked connected a wide hunt that included actors, sports figures, journalists and celebrities. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

LOS ANGELES – Producer Mike Richards stepped down arsenic big of “Jeopardy!” aft a study astir past misogynistic comments surfaced this week.

Richards was chosen past week arsenic the successor to Alex Trebek, but his enactment was seen arsenic divisive from the opening aft the amusement embarked connected a wide hunt that included actors, sports figures, journalists and celebrities.

Earlier this week, a study connected the website The Ringer revealed demeaning comments astir women that Richards had made connected a podcast. The clips were removed online aft the study was posted.

“Over the past respective days it has go wide that moving guardant arsenic big would beryllium excessively overmuch of a distraction for our fans and not the close determination for the show,” Richards said successful a enactment to the “Jeopardy!” unit connected Friday. “As such, I volition beryllium stepping down arsenic big effectual immediately. As a result, we volition beryllium canceling accumulation today.”

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Richards said a hunt for a caller big volition statesman again. The amusement volition resume accumulation with impermanent hosts who volition beryllium announced later, Richards said.

His enactment indicated that helium volition stay the show’s enforcement producer.

“I privation to apologize to each of you for the unwanted antagonistic attraction that has travel to Jeopardy! implicit the past fewer weeks and for the disorder and delays this is present causing. I cognize I person a batch of enactment to bash to regain your spot and confidence.

While Richards was tapped to big the fashionable crippled show, “Jeopardy!” besides announced past week that histrion Mayim Bialik would emcee “Jeopardy!” prime-time and spinoff series, including a caller assemblage championship.

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