Alex Trebek is working on Jeopardy! again after finishing chemotherapy

I'll take an actual dose of good news for $1000.

Alex Trebek, fondly known as America's favorite quiz show host, announced Thursday he completed his chemotherapy treatments. He's now "on the mend" and back working on the 36th season of Jeopardy!, he said in a video message for the show's fans.

Trebek revealed his stage 4 pancreatic cancer diagnosis in March, pledging that he was "going to fight this" and "beat the low survival rate statistics for this disease." But that didn't mean he was leaning toward retirement, joking at the time that "under the terms of my contract, I have to host Jeopardy! for three more years."

Subscribe to The Week

Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives.

SUBSCRIBE & SAVE

Sign up for The Week's Free Newsletters

From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.

From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.

Sign up

Just about three months later, Trebek made another announcement: His cancer was in "near-remission," and that doctors "said they hadn't seen this kind of positive result in their memory." All of that treatment is now wrapped up, and a Jeopardy! spokesperson told CNN on Thursday that Trebek was now working on the show. Trebek never seemed to actually take a break from Jeopardy and filmed the end of Season 35 while undergoing cancer treatment, though as he told CBS News in May, he did it while wearing a very convincing wig.