Herb Stempel Trying To Get On ‘Jeopardy!’

Stempel on ‘Jeopardy!’?

Herb Stempel, one of the contestants who helped trigger the 1950s quiz-show scandals (recounted in the recent Robert Redford movie “Quiz Show”) is attempting to make a game-show comeback of sorts.

In an interview for a New York TV show, Stempel tells Frank Hope, host of the public-access “Beyond Vaudeville,” that he recently went through two auditions to be a contestant on “Jeopardy!” and is waiting to find out if he’ll be invited onto the show.

In the late ‘50s, Stempel, having been fed the right answers by producers, won $49,500 on the game show “21” before losing, in another rigged game, to Charles Van Doren. Bitter about being forced to lose, he later revealed that the program was fixed.

Religion and TV

Television programmers consistently underestimate the role of religion in American society, according to a conservative group’s annual study of the matter released last Wednesday.

The Media Research Center study found that network news coverage of religious issues declined between 1993 and 1994, according to L. Brent Bozell, chairman of the self-described conservative research and education foundation, who spoke Wednesday at a Washington news conference.