Alex Trebek's Final Jeopardy! Episode Had Show's Highest Ratings in Almost Two Years ✖ As the ongoing search for a permanent host to succeed Alex Trebek at the lectern on Jeopardy! continues, the official word on the ratings of Trebek's final episode as host have been released. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the final week of shows featuring Trebek at the lead averaged "11.12 million daily viewers for the week," marking its biggest ratings since April of last year. His final episode which aired Friday, January 8 (and had been taped just ten days before Trebek's death) had over 14 million viewers though, marking the highest ratings for an individual episode of the series since June of 2019, which was the final episode of Jeopardy! GOAT competitor James Holzhauer's original 32-game winning streak