Jeopardy winner is likely shaking up the game show's budget
Jessica Bursztynsky
19 hrs ago Holzhauer, who has been setting records over the past 12 episodes, set a single-show record of $131,127 in winnings, according to a report from The Atlantic. So far, he's won around $850,000 and is on track to reaching $2.5 million — the past record set by Ken Jennings — in half the time. Jennings scored his prize after 74 consecutive wins, and his best one-day tally was $75,000.
Since the average single-show earnings come in around $20,000, some wondered how much Holzhauer's earnings would take out of the show's budget.
"Typically, for a long-running show the prize budget is determined by way of averages of what has been won in the past," Bob Boden, a former head of programming at Game Show Network, told The Atlantic. "James's performance, I'm sure, is causing grief for an accountant somewhere."
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