In a judicial game of tug-of-war, Deadline reports that CBS has won its appeal to a higher court to remain the distributor of Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!. This comes only a week after a lower court ruled Sony could have those rights.

A three-judge panel in California’s Second Appellate District ordered on Wednesday, per Deadline, “The superior court’s order of April 10, 2025 denying the preliminary injunction and allowing Respondents to begin ‘distributing the shows and need not deliver episodes to CBS’ is stayed pending further order of this court.”

This leaves the ongoing dispute between the media giants in limbo until April 28^th. As mxdwn previously reported, the dispute began when Sony accused CBS of allegedly failing to live up to its obligations to distribute their shows properly. Accusations flew as Sony claims that CBS allegedly bundled its high-performing game shows along with its lower-performing shows to TV networks who were forced to run CBS’s programming if they wanted the coveted game show darlings, Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune. They also accused them of allegedly laying off all of the staff in charge of promoting and managing the dinnertime duo, leaving CBS incapable of fulfilling its contractual duties.

Mxdwn confirms that CBS rebuts this narrative, stating that Sony only wants to get out of their contract after they have made them billions.

In other Wheel of Fortune news, per Collider, Pat Sajak (The A Team, Santa Barbara) has announced that after his long-tenured departure from the show, he will now be performing in Joe Moore’s (Magnum P.I., Goodbye Paradise) stage production of a Columbo adaptation titled Prescription Murder.

Jeopardy! also continues to make daily headlines due to the new host, Ken Jennings (The Simpsons, Red Dead Redemption II), who replaced longtime beloved host Alex Trebek (Charlie’s Angels, Free Guy), and his antics. Many fans seem to be upset with his harsh calls. While others seem to be astonished at his never-ending side-gigs, which include podcasts, writing books, and hosting parades. Still other headlines deep dive into whether or not he is continuously quoting Die Hard. It’s clear to see that Americans are still completely obsessed with the two shows, which makes it understandable why the media giants are fighting over the rights to distribute them.