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Jeopardy! viewers BLAST ABC for 'ruining' the game show with a 'ridiculous' and 'distracting' debate countdown fail

Thursday's instalment of the game show aired right before the chaotic head-to-head and the network opted to promote the landmark event with an invasive sticker.

viewers were seething after ABC bosses decided to place a 'distracting' and 'unnecessary' countdown widget for Donald Trump and President Joe Biden's first debate in the corner of the screen for the entire episode – which repeatedly blocked a contestant's face from shot. Thursday's instalment of the game show aired right before the chaotic head-to-head and the network opted to promote the landmark event with an invasive sticker. Pressed on his role, he said he encouraged people to act 'peacefully and patriotically,' then changed the subject to launch an attack on former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.

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