Wheel of Fortune taps a new executive producer to succeed Mike Richards

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Bellamie Blackstone, a veteran of Nicolas Cage's History of Swear Words and Kids Say the Darndest Things, will oversee Wheel of Fortune full-time following the departure of Richards last year as Jeopardy! and Wheel executive producer. Longtime Wheel supervising producer Steve Schwartz, who was interim executive producer this season, has been promoted to co-exec producer.