What Is Mike Richards' Net Worth?

Mike Richards didn't just become the well-to-do executive producer of "Jeopardy!" overnight. In fact, he'd already had a lengthy career in television that spanned over twenty years. Parade reports that his experience includes "producing talk shows, dating shows, celebrity shows, reality shows, clips shows, game shows and cable news." Richards' first job as a producer appeared to be in 2000 (via IMDb) when he worked on the TV series "Friends or Lovers."

A few years later in 2006, Richards produced The CW's "Beauty and the Geek," which he also hosted. He did the same for the Game Show Network show "The Pyramid" in 2012. But Richards' career as a producer really started to take off in 2008 when he became the co-executive producer of the popular daytime game show "The Price Is Right," according to Variety. He also helped sell the revival of "Let's Make a Deal" to CBS, which he had executive produced as well.

Suffice to say, he's put a lot of hours in. "By the time he took the reins of 'Jeopardy,'" Variety points out, "Richards had produced more than 4,000 hours of game shows." It seems that Richards has always found steady work as a producer and was able to work his way up to more well-known game shows, which presumably paid better. While that has clearly been lucrative for him, Richards has also apparently gravitated towards hosting, which may mean more to him than just a paycheck.

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