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This week on Jeopardy!, a new champion really caught fans’ attention. Not only did Ryan Manton become a fan favorite, but he has a connection with the show from before. While answering questions in the meet and greet part of the show, he said that his wife was a contestant on the show three years ago.

Here is what you need to know about Manton and his wife.

Jeopardy! Champion’s Wife Was On Show Before Him

On his first appearance on Jeopardy!, Ryan Manton answered questions about himself during the interview portion of the show. The systems administrator from Columbus, Ohio, explained how he proposed to his wife. That is when Ryan delivered some fun trivia.

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“My now wife, Lauren—my girlfriend at the time—was on Jeopardy! about three years ago,” Manton told Jennings, “She was on your last guest hosting episode” (via...

[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for the September 30 episode of Jeopardy!] Jeopardy! contestant Ryan Manton, a systems administrator from Columbus, Ohio, had a sweet connection to the show even before he came on during Season 41. Manton faced off against Alison Prelusky, a copywriter from Lindenhurst, New York, and the one-day champ Kate Roesch, a data visualization developer from Indianapolis, Indiana in the September 30 game, and when it came time for the interview portion in the middle of the Jeopardy! round, host Ken Jennings asked him to tell the story of how he proposed to his wife. “My now wife, Lauren—my girlfriend at the time—was on Jeopardy! about three years ago,” Manton shared, telling Jennings, “She was on your last guest hosting episode.” That was the February 19, 2021 episode, in Season 37. Lauren Menke came in third place, facing off against Sam Stapleton and the one-day champ Alan Johnson. Stapleton won (with $33,201, to Johnson’s $22,600 and Menke’...

Though he's best known for his tenure as Superman in the original feature film series, there's a lot more to Christopher Reeve than just the Man of Steel. Unfortunately, most refused to see anything more than the man in blue tights and a big red cape, but Reeve often challenged himself and took on other roles not traditionally associated with his past as a superhero. In one of his last leading roles, Reeve played a man by the name of Alan Johnson in the made-for-television Black Fox trilogy of Westerns that really deserve a bit more recognition.

Inarguably, Peep Show's best episodes contain the greatest comedic moments in sitcom history. Running from 2003 to 2015, Peep Show stars the perfectly cast comedy duo of David Mitchell and Robert Webb as flatmates. While Mitchell plays the reserved, self-aware pseudo-intellectual Mark, Webb is the passionate, delusional, and sensation-chasing Jeremy/Jez. It's a classic sitcom pairing between two highly contrasting individuals, whose only common factors is their unrelenting and selfish dishonesty. This relationship lays the groundwork for the show's brilliantly subtle absurdity and hard-hitting dark humor, which rarely ever misses throughout the entirety of Peep Show's 54 episodes. Although technically a rom-com, Peep Show is not for the faint of heart.

Originally called Pov, Peep Show also stands out for its signature heavy use of point-of-view shots and voice-overs that reveal the inner monologue of whichever character's perspective is onscreen. To this day, Peep Show remains the only sitcom that has used both...

The Masked Singer is back, with fans tuning in every Saturday night to try to guess which celebrity is behind each costume.

Comedian Joel Dommett has returned to host proceedings, with 13 mystery stars singing familiar songs on stage, while dressed up in an outfit obscuring their identity.

Guessing along with the in-studio audience and the viewers at home are the judges: Mo Gilligan, Davina McCall, Rita Ora and Jonathan Ross.

One way to help narrow things down is checking out who’s been on the series before – as it seems unlikely they’d return to the show (although not impossible).

So here’s a full list of who appeared on seasons one, two, three and four…

Season one

Winner: Nicola Roberts – Queen Bee

Jason Manford – Hedgehog

Katherine Jenkins – Octopus

CeeLo Green – Monster

Denise van Outen – Fox

Jake Shears – Unicorn

Skin – Duck

Kelis – Daisy

Teddy Sheringham – Tree

Justin Hawkins – Chameleon

Alan Johnson...

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker brought back many notable characters from Sw history, from the grand return of Palpatine to those vocal cameos at its climax. There’s one that even the most hardcore fan would be hard-pressed to pick up on, though. Partly because they’re only briefly on screen in the background of one scene, but mostly because they look nothing like they did the last time we saw them.

The character in question is Dengar, one of the bounty hunters employed by Vader in The Empire Strikes Back (as played by Morris Bush). Inspecting the images below, you wouldn’t think this creepy-looking cyborg with the emaciated inhuman face was the same person as the humanoid hunter from the Original Trilogy. But yup, that’s what’s heavily implied by the movie’s Visual Dictionary.

A crazy Star Wars thing is that a character that briefly...

Paterson Joseph chats to us about Good Omens, Peep Show, being cut from Paddington, and why he'd "never say never" to playing the Doctor...

Where do you begin with Paterson Joseph? Be it on stage or the small screen, he’s popped up everywhere from Shakespeare to Survivors, from Casualty to Green Wing. To some, he’s the suave, sharply dressed and, latterly, lapsed alcoholic Alan Johnson in Peep Show. But to others, this writer included, he’ll always be the mysterious, flamboyant swashbuckler, the Marquis de Carabas, from Neil Gaiman’s rich sub-London fantasy Neverwhere.

Now, he’s appearing on BBC Radio 4 in a festive double bill of prestige productions. First, he’s giving voice to fast-food mogul and horseman of the apocalypse Famine in Good Omens, adapted from the novel by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. Then, on New Year’s Day, he’s Pierre, the passionate protagonist...

Even the most hardened cynic couldn't fail to be moved by Alan Johnson's story of his tough upbringing

• The Essay: The Book that Changed Me

"David Copperfield entered my life at the time my mother left it."

As a series opener, Alan Johnson's first line for The Essay: The Book that Changed Me sets the bar pretty high in the emotive stakes. Not only does the former home secretary construct a portrait of turmoil and grief, drawing parallels between his own childhood and Dickens's, but he manages it in a way that chips away at the cynicism reserved for politicians. It's just all too sincere and heartfelt. "When [Dad] ran off with the barmaid from the village pub in 1958, [Mum] saw it as a defeat. We saw it as a victory; life would be better without him."

Johnson rails against his dad (a drunk, gambler and cheat, in that order...

After 10 years and eight series, Peep Show is expected to bow out in 2014 with a final farewell for the world's worst flatmates, Mark and Jeremy. The El Dude Brothers may well be no more.

Launching the careers of David Mitchell and Robert Webb and making every 30-something loser feel a lot better about themselves, the show is quite rightly considered one of Channel 4's greatest ever comedies. Here are 12 reasons that we're going to miss it terribly.

1. Because Jeremy is the greatest Big Brother contestant that never was

"I'm basically an upmarket Bubble".

2. Super Hans. And everything he's taught us about the music scene.

"The whole industry is run by suits. Sitting behind their big marble desks, ties done up to 11, clicking their fingers to the f**king Lighthouse Family, getting their d**ks sucked by a big Alsatian dog. They're all perverts, mate."

3. Alan Johnson. The Johnson is here.

Life and work of Iain Banks to be honoured at 30th festival, with Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood and Neil Gaiman also featuring in two-week event partnered by the Guardian

The life and works of the late Iain Banks will be celebrated by close friends including Ian Rankin and Val McDermid in a special event at this August's Edinburgh international book festival, for which the Guardian is media partner.

"Scotland and the world were rocked by his death last weekend," said Nick Barley, the festival director. "We'd been planning a celebration anyway as we're marking our 30th birthday, and his first novel, The Wasp Factory, was out in 1984. I spoke to him many times about what he'd like to do. He wanted to be there – sadly he can't be."

Instead, the event on the festival's closing Sunday will see Scottish authors including Rankin, McDermid and Ken MacLeod looking back over Banks's 29-year career.

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Michael revisits the 1996 incarnation of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, a magical BBC series that was ahead of its time...

Spoiler warning: While this article is about a 17-year old TV programme, it inevitably discusses plot points that are also present in the currently-broadcasting radio drama remake.

“Let me tell you a story. No, wait, one’s not enough. I’ll begin again...”

So reads the back-cover blurb of Neil Gaiman’s 2006 short story anthology Fragile Things, but it’s as apt a beginning as any for an expedition back through the knotted overgrowths of time to the author’s 1996 foray into television: the six-part miniseries Neverwhere.

Now, let’s get this out of the way first: there is no single, true ‘Neverwhere’. Like its signature setting, a semi-mythological, hidden version of London that exists below the streets of Britain’s capital, Neverwhere is a...

Netflix has revolutionized the home movie experience for fans of film with its instant streaming technology. Netflix Nuggets is my way of spreading the word about independent, classic and foreign films made available by Netflix for instant streaming.

Sorry, folks… there are simply too many great films streaming this week to post an image for them all, but that’s a good thing, eh? You’ve got your movie watching work cut out for you, due in great part to Miramax releasing damn near their entire catalog of films on one day!

B. Monkey (1999)

Streaming Available: 05/01/2011

Director: Michael Radford

Synopsis: Good-hearted schoolteacher Alan Furnace (Jared Harris) desperately wants some excitement in his life — and he may just get some. One lonely night at a London bar, Alan spies the raven-haired beauty Beatrice (Asia Argento) arguing with two friends, Paul (Rupert Everett) and Bruno (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers). Beatrice quickly befriends Alan and...

Watching the Fox Mel Brooks Collection on Blu-ray, two things become readily apparent. One is that Mel Brooks loves movies. He doesn’t just like them, he loves them. Sure, you can hold his adaptation of the Ernst Lubitsch film To Be or Not to Be against him, but can you think of another filmmaker who would make a silent film ever, much less in the mid-70’s? His greatest films are movie-centric satires that show a great affection for old Hollywood and when he strays he tends to fall flat. The second part of the equation that is Mel Brooks is presented after the jump.

And that second part of Mel Brooks is this: he started strong and lost his way. Something of a gag writer, when paired with Gene Wilder the two made their best works - on their own Brooks made films with a lot of gags,...

Fiona Phillips has blasted Channel 4 news anchor Krishnan Guru-Murthy after he mocked her role at the Labour Party conference. The former GMTV host introduced home secretary Alan Johnson at the Brighton event last Tuesday. Writing in her column for The Mirror, Phillips revealed: "Apparently, Channel 4's smug Krishnan Guru-Murthy - apologies if you haven't a clue who he is - reckons was 'excruciating'." (more)...

The top 10 best Adam Sandler movies. Comedian. Actor. Musician. Singer. Writer. Producer. Swell guy (probably). The sum of all these parts makes Adam Sander who he is today; a much loved and much viewed working entertainer. He makes us laugh. He makes it look easy. There are few comedic actors when have been at the top of the box office for as long as The Sandman, so let’s appreciate this multi-talented dude.

10. 50 First Dates (2004)

50 First Dates (not to be confused with the similar-sounding 51st State starring Samuel L. Jackson) is the 2nd collaboration between the Sandman and Drew Barrymore after The Wedding Singer.

Set in Hawaii, Sandler is Henry Roth, a ladies man (!) who falls for Drew’s character Lucy Whitmore. After managing to romance her, he wakes up the next morning to find she has forgotten who he is and has no prior knowledge of the previous day’s events.

The ban on radio personality Michael Savage to Britain has been lifted. United Kingdom Home Secretary Alan Johnson reportedly has lifted the edict for Mr. Savage, according to Wnd.com. Mr. Savage was lumped in a varied group of Islamic hate preachers, racial bigots and terrorists. With an estimated 8 million listeners and broadcast on 400 radio stations, Mr. Savage hosts the nation's third most popular radio talk show in the U.S. According to the website, Mr. Savage was involved in a lawsuit with previous UK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith for libel, who put Mr. Savage in the ban list described as the "least wanted" visitors to the country. Smith, according to the website, admitted she was not...