Mike Richards

Michael G. Richards (born July 5, 1975 in Burbank, California), also known as Mike Richards, is a television personality and producer.

Richards is best known as the second host of Beauty and the Geek, and has produced numerous game shows including Weakest Link. Richards was until the end of the 2018–19 season the executive producer of The Price is Right and Let's Make a Deal and was a candidate to host Price before Drew Carey was chosen. Richards left both shows in 2019 and joined Sony Pictures Television, where he has been assigned to Who Wants to be a Millionaire? as an co-executive producer with Jimmy Kimmel, who is also the host of the show, and Michael Davies for the eight-episode run in the 2019–20 season, On August 29, 2019, Sony Announced that he will succeed as executive producer of Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! from the retiring Harry Friedman at the start of 2020-21 season. Richards hosted GSN's 2012 revival of The Pyramid and is the current host of the GSN show Divided.