cap, the 77-year-old Trebek delivered the news of his surgery and recovery himself in a video posted to the show's Facebook page. / Updated By Alex Johnson 
 
 LOS ANGELES — Taping of the game show "Jeopardy!" The venerable host and Canadian icon underwent brain surgery in December, but he posted a video message on Thursday saying he expects to return to taping "Jeopardy!" "Some of you may have heard by now that during the holiday break, I had a slight medical problem -- a subdural hematoma, blod clots on the brain, caused by a fall I endured about two months ago," Trebek said in the video. "Alex spent Christmas at home with his family, and he will return to the Jeopardy! Sony Pictures, which produces the show, said they will return to filming new tapings with Trebek in mid-January. is taped months in advance, so Sony said it had plenty of unaired episodes already in the can. It said the only change in its schedule would be to delay the show's annual college championship to April.
– Alex Trebek has a "slight medical problem," in his words—but it's serious enough that Jeopardy! is now on hiatus. NBC News reports the 77-year-old game show host underwent brain surgery to remove blood clots on Dec. 16 at Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and is now recuperating. The blood clots, also known as a subdural hematoma, came about after Trebek fell in October. Per ABC News, he announced the news himself in a video posted to the show's Facebook page on Thursday. "Prognosis is excellent, and I expect to be back in the studio and taping more Jeopardy! programs very, very soon," said a baseball-cap-wearing Trebek in the video. The show tapes its episodes ahead of time, so viewers shouldn't notice much of a disruption in the schedule, though the show's college championships will be pushed to April. Trebek "is expected to make a full and complete recovery," show producer Sony Pictures Entertainment says in a statement, noting Trebek is due back in the middle of this month.