Celebrity Jeopardy! season 2: next episode, contestants, host and everything we know about the game show

This show was a hit with fans and is now back on ABC. What is Celebrity Jeopardy! season 2? That's right!

After Celebrity Jeopardy! season 1 had a good run in primetime in the early days of 2023, the format that sees big-name stars play the classic game show to win money for charities is back.

Jeopardy! has been expanding its offerings to fans of the long-time daily game show. In addition to Celebrity Jeopardy! (which was previously a special event and also a famous Saturday Night Live skit), Jeopardy! Masters was a blast for fans, as some of the best players in recent years went head-to-head over a multiple-week tournament, including James Holzhauer, Amy Schneider, Mattea Roach and more (Jeopardy! Masters 2024 has already been announced as happening).

So, which celebrities are going to test their knowledge on Jeopardy? Here's everything that we currently know about the new season of the game show.

When is the next Celebrity Jeopardy! season 2 episode?

The second semifinal game for Celebrity Jeopardy! season 2 takes place on Tuesday, January 9, at 8 pm ET/PT on ABC. This matchup is set to feature Steven Weber, Katie Nolan and Dule Hill.

Celebrity Jeopardy! season 2 host

Ken Jennings is the host for Celebrity Jeopardy! season 2.

This is a change from season 1 of the primetime special, when Mayim Bialik hosted. However, Bialik was replaced by Jennings for season 2 when she stepped away from hosting Jeopardy! in solidarity with the writers and actors strikes in 2023.

Celebrity Jeopardy! season 2 contestants

Twenty-seven Celebrity Jeopardy! contestants competed in the quarterfinals, but only nine advanced to the semifinals. Below are the full list of celebrities that have participated in Celebrity Jeopardy! season 2, with the semifinalists ID'd with an asterisk (*).

• Utkarsh Ambudkar (Ghosts)*

• Shane Battier (former NBA player)

• Brian Baumgartner (The Office)

• Cedric the Entertainer (The Neighborhood)

• Macaulay Culkin (Home Alone)

• Rachel Dratch (Saturday Night Live)*

• Mark Duplass (The Morning Show)

• Peter Facinelli (Twilight franchise)

• Melissa Fumero (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)

• Emily Hampshire (Schitt's Creek)

• Dule Hill (The West Wing)*

• Becky Lynch (WWE wrestler)

• Heather McMahan (comedian)*

• Christopher Meloni (Law & Order: Organized Crime)

• Cynthia Nixon (The Gilded Age)

• Katie Nolan (TV sports personality)*

• Mo Rocca (comedian)*

• Adam Rodriguez (Criminal Minds)

• Peter Schrager (NFL broadcaster)

• Amanda Seales (Insecure)

• Kyra Sedgwick (The Closer)

• Sherri Shepherd (Sherri)

• Mira Sorvino (Sound of Freedom)*

• Timothy Simons (Don't Worry Darling)

• Sheryl Underwood (comedian)

• Lisa Ann Walter (Abbott Elementary)*

• Steven Weber (Chicago Med)*

Celebrity Jeopardy! season 2 format

The basic game format is the same as your normal version of Jeopardy! Three players will compete, buzzing in to answer clues in the form of the question, trying to rack up the most money/points, with whoever has that at the end of the game being the winner. However, there are some tweaks to the format for Celebrity Jeopardy!

Instead of the traditional two rounds of Jeopardy and Double Jeopardy, Celebrity Jeopardy! has three rounds. The values are also different than traditional Jeopardy! rounds: in round 1 questions are worth 100, 200, 300, 400 and 500 points; in round 2 those are doubled to 200, 400, 600, 800 and 1000; and in round 3 it rises to 300, 600, 900, 1200 and 1500.

When it comes to Daily Double questions, the first two rounds have the normal number of Daily Doubles associated with them (round 1 has one, round 2 has two), but there are then three daily doubles in round 3.

Final Jeopardy is the same as the normal game, with all contestants answering a question, wagering some amount of what they have earned over the previous two rounds.

The hour-long Celebrity Jeopardy! episodes consist of one game.

Again, presuming Celebrity Jeopardy! season 2 keeps the same format that it had for season 1, there will be three quarterfinal rounds, where nine contestants play games, with the three winners moving on to the semifinals. The winners of those three semifinal games will then move on to the Celebrity Jeopardy! finals.

Who is advancing on Celebrity Jeopardy! season 2?

Check out our Celebrity Jeopardy! season 2 bracket for a detailed look at how the field looks for the tournament, but here's a quick summary of who has advanced so far.

Quarterfinals 1

• Mark Duplass

• Emily Hampshire

• Utkarsh Ambudkar (winner)

Quarterfinals 2

• Brian Baumgartner

• Lisa Ann Walter (winner)

• Timothy Simons

Quarterfinals 3

• Christopher Meloni

• Sherri Shepherd

• Katie Nolan (winner)

Quarterfinals 4

• Steven Weber (winner)

• Shane Battier

• Melissa Fumero

Quarterfinals 5

• Mira Sorvino (winner)

• Adam Rodriguez

• Peter Schrager

Quarterfinals 6

• Dule Hill (winner)

• Sheryl Underwood

• Peter Facinelli

Quarterfinals 7

• Macaulay Culkin

• Rachel Dratch (winner)

• Becky Lynch

Quarterfinals 8

• Cynthia Nixon

• Cedric the Entertainer

• Heather McMahan (winner)

Quarterfinals 9

• Kyra Sedgwick

• Mo Rocca (winner)

• Amanda Seales

Semifinals 1

• Utkarsh Ambudkar

• Mira Sorvino

• Lisa Ann Walter

Semifinals 2

• Steven Weber

• Katie Nolan

• Dule Hill

Semifinals 3

• Rachel Dratch

• Mo Rocca

• Heather McMahan

Finals

• Lisa Ann Walter

Celebrity Jeopardy! season 2 trailer

Check out the first promo for Celebrity Jeopardy! season 2, which offers us a look at just some of the celebrities that are going to be competing in the quiz tournament for charity.

How to watch Celebrity Jeopardy!

Celebrity Jeopardy! airs on ABC, meaning that if you have a traditional pay-TV cable setup or a TV antenna you can simply flip on the TV and tune to your local ABC channel to watch.

If you have or are looking to move onto a live TV streaming service for your TV viewing needs and want to make sure you can watch Celebrity Jeopardy!, FuboTV, Hulu with Live TV and YouTube TV all carry ABC as part of their channel lineups.

Additionally,  you can watch Celebrity Jeopardy!, as episodes stream the day after they initially air on Hulu. You can catch up with the entirety of Celebrity Jeopardy! season 1 right now on the streamer.