LeVar Burton to be a guest host on ‘Jeopardy!’

Other upcoming guest hosts include George Stephanopoulos

LeVar Burton’s fans are finally getting their wish as the actor has been tapped to guest host “Jeopardy!” before the end of its current season.

Sony Pictures Television announced Wednesday that Burton will be among the hosts filling in on the program before the end of the season.

Other upcoming guest hosts include Fox sportscaster Joe Buck, CNBC host David Faber, and “Good Morning America” coanchors George Stephanopoulos and Robin Roberts.

Burton, 64, had been touted on social media as a potential successor to the late Alex Trebek. The TV show has been using guest hosts since the final Trebek episodes aired in December and has not publicly set a timetable for naming a permanent replacement.

Younger audiences grew up watching Burton on the PBS series “Reading Rainbow.” He also starred in the 1977 TV miniseries “Roots” and was in the cast of “Star Trek: The Next Generation.”

Longtime fans had circulated a petition supporting Burton, who has expressed interest in taking the “Jeopardy!” host role permanently.

“I am overjoyed, excited and eager to be guest-hosting Jeopardy!, and will do my utmost best to live up to your faith you in me,” Burton tweeted shortly after the news was announced.

Other upcoming guest hosts include actress Mayim Bialik, “Today” co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, CNN medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta and “60 Minutes” correspondent Bill Whitaker. CNN anchor Anderson Cooper is guest host this week.

Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers recently finished a two-week stint as guest host and has made it known that he covets the full-time job. Rodgers is a “Celebrity Jeopardy!” champion and obsessive fan of the program.