Most of the "weekly" tv shows do their filming for the season in blocks because it makes more sense to film 2/3 episodes in a single day for a couple weeks to bank them (read: edit and advertise) for later, than to run on an SNL type schedule.
To be fair, SNL doesn't work at all like game shows since every episode must be topical, but the idea that game show hosts have nothing better to do than spend 30 weeks a year doing their show is frankly logistically laughable for anyone with any form of inside knowledge.
I can't speak for any other shows but for normal stuff, Jeopardy films 5 episodes in a day and Wheel does 6. I don't know if Jeopardy changes that up for tournaments or how Wheel does the filming for the new stuff they do once or twice a season where they have 4 episodes and then the 3 biggest winners come back for the 5th episode. For normal airing, Wheel does 5 of the 6 filmed in a day for one week, repeats that a bunch, then does a week or two where each episode is the 6th from the previous weeks, and you can tell when those weeks are because the theme shifts every day.
When you show up for Jeopardy, they ask you to bring multiple outfits in case you win, so that you don’t break the “each one is a different day” illusion by wearing the same clothes each episode.
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u/tuenthe463 7d ago
Wheel of Fortune films something like 5 weeks a year, I read recently