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At a time when daytime talk shows are on a relative decline in viewership Live seems to have found the secret sauce to retaining its audience. This season, it is one of just two syndicated talk shows to improve on its average total viewership from the previous year. Live remained the No. 1 entertainment talker on television over the past year, growing 3% in average total viewers to 2.23 million per episode. According to Nielsen data, the show has been the most-watched syndicated talk show in every week since Ripa and Consuelos teamed up.

Bob Hearts Abishola will premiere in broadcast syndication this fall on station groups including Nexstar, Sinclair, Hearst, Tegna, Scripps, Weigel, Sunbeam, Gray, Mission, Lockwood and Bahakel, Warner Bros. Discovery Content Sales confirmed Wednesday. The Warner Bros. Television sitcom, which is concluding its five-season run on CBS, is joining its Chuck Lorre-produced siblings – The Big Bang Theory, Young Sheldon and Two and a Half Men – in syndication.

Suits will make its broadcast television debut on MyNetwork TV this fall, where it will be offered on free television for the first time. The legal drama, created and written […]

Picking up Disney’s second longest-running syndicated show are ABC Owned Television Stations and leading broadcast groups including Hearst, Scripps, Nexstar, Tegna, Gray and Allen Media Group.

Many in the veteran genre are introducing apps, QR codes, the metaverse and more to retain and engage audiences, grow viewers and optimize monetization.

Mary Connelly will be departing as executive producer and co-showrunner of The Jennifer Hudson Show at the end of daytime syndicated talk show’s current second season. The daytime veteran is leaving The Jennifer Hudson Show‘s producer Warner Bros. Unscripted Television/Telepictures, her studio home of more than two decades, to pursue new projects. She made the announcement to the show’s staff and crew Thursday.

Today’s episode of ABC‘s Tamron Hall show was scotched after a grease fire in an on-set kitchen caused a brief evacuation of the Upper West Side ABC studio where Hall tapes the show. A rerun of the Monday eclipse episode was aired instead, but in a brief live appearance ahead of the episode Hall stood on the empty, mostly evacuated set and explained what happened.

Anything goes as station groups forge their own content fiefdoms. Pictured: Sony Pictures Television is offering stations two new hours of the NFL Network morning show Good Morning Football. (NFL Media)

Pat Sajak’s final run on Wheel of Fortune is quickly coming to a close. After more than four decades as host of the iconic game show, Sajak’s final episode will air on Friday, June 7. His farewell episode, which taped last Friday, will serve as Wheel‘s Season 41 finale.

The Jennifer Hudson Show will spend the week of April 8 with the cast of ABC’s Emmy-winning comedy, Abbott Elementary. Series star and creator and multiple Emmy-winner Quinta Brunson, who plays optimistic second-grade teacher Jeanine Teagues at the fictional Philadelphia school, will kick off the week on Monday, sitting down with Hudson in the show’s Burbank, Calif., studio. Pictured: Jennifer Hudson will chat with Chris Perfetti (l) and Quinta Brunson during the show’s Abbott Elementary week.

25 Words or Less, Pictionary and Person, Place, or Thing to air on the Fox Television Stations through 2024-25 season.

The talker is cleared in 95% of the U.S. on stations from groups including Fox Television Stations, Nexstar, Sinclair, Hearst, Gray and Scripps.

Episodes will get a second run on Game Show Network after the daily show premieres in broadcast syndication starting this fall. Jaleel While to host.

Karamo has been renewed for a third season, Tracie Wilson, executive vice president, NBCUniversal Syndication Studios & E! News, said Thursday. The conflict talker is hosted by reality television personality, author, actor, producer and activist Karamo Brown.

NBCUniversal Syndication Studios has renewed The Steve Wilkos Show for an 18th season in national syndication. The Steve Wilkos Show is the second longest-tenured syndicated talk show in current production and is averaging 765,000 viewers for the 2023-24 season, according to NBCU Syndication Studios.

TV stations with rerun rights in the older Judge Judy library expiring in the fall of 2024 that clear the new-to-broadcast series Judy Justice will receive an additional two additional runs of each new Judy Justice episode.

The pop culture game show, based on iconic People crosswords, is set to return this fall with renewals on the Fox Television Stations, Sinclair, CBS, Nexstar, Gray and Scripps stations for 90% U.S. clearance.

Sony Pictures Television said it is launching a 60th Diamond Collection campaign to mark the three-score anniversary of the long-running answer-and-question game Jeopardy. The year-long celebration will including a new “Why Not You?” campaign to recruit contestants kicking off March 30, which is being designated as “JeoparDay!”

NFL Network’s Good Morning Football is headed to syndication for the 2024-25 season, confirms Sony Pictures Television, which is handling national distribution. The show, which has been airing on NFL Network since August 2016, will produce two additional original hours each day to air five days a week on broadcast and other platforms. Good Morning Football — or GMFB, as it will be called in syndication — will premiere ahead of NFL preseason football this summer. Stations can take one or two hours each day and air the show whenever they want. GMFB is being sold to stations with a 7-7 barter split. Pictured: Good Morning Football  panelists discuss QB Russell Wilson’s release from the Denver Broncos.

Programming leaders from Gray, E.W. Scripps, Sinclair and Graham Media will discuss how they’re finding creative ways to bring out fresh content in a tightly constricted syndication market during a panel at TVNewsCheck’s Programming Everywhere conference at the NAB Show on April 14. Register here.

As part of its week-long activation for the 2024 Super Bowl, Paramount Global took Drew Barrymore, Entertainment Tonight and Inside Edition to Las Vegas to shoot shows and segments on the ground before, during and after the big game. All three CBS Media Ventures-produced shows set up shop in front of the Bellagio fountains to talk football, parties, celebrity, and of course, the Taylor Swift of it all.

She moves up from SVP, overseeing many of the syndication company’s games shows.

Three years after she ended her landmark show, Judy Sheindlin returns to familiar territory when Freevee original Judy Justice enters syndication later in 2024.

The renewal marks sixth year on the Fox Stations for the entertainment news series from Warner Bros. Television Group.

The Flip Side, a new syndicated game show hosted by Jaleel White, will launch in the fall, with CBS Stations signing on as the anchor station group, it was announced […]

Among the station groups renewing the Warner Bros. Television Group’s Daytime Emmy-nominated talk show are Fox Television Stations and Hearst Television.

After a late start to its fourth season and behind-the-scenes turmoil, The Drew Barrymore Show has received and early, drama-free renewal for a fifth season on the CBS Stations. It is the first pickup for the syndicated daytime talker since the major reorganization at the show’s producer and distributor CBS Media Ventures, which was put under the purview of Wendy McMahon, now president-CEO of CBS News and Stations and CBS Media Ventures.

As 2023 comes to a close, syndication’s one big swing for 2024 looks to be Debmar-Mercury’s talker starring and executive produced by Ken Jeong. Other potential offerings include a true-crime strip from Warner Bros. Discovery’s Telepictures, one or two shows from Sinclair and possibly new games from CBS Media Ventures and Sony Pictures Television. It’s early, though, as station groups and studios are making budget decisions before deciding whether to go forward with their latest projects.

“Sony has informed me that I will no longer be hosting the syndicated version of Jeopardy!” Bialik wrote Friday on Instagram. “I am incredibly honored to have been nominated for a primetime Emmy for hosting this year and I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to have been a part of the Jeopardy! family.”

After a tumultuous exit from NBC — and a brief business arrangement with disgraced mogul Harvey Weinstein — Hall has gone on to become Disney’s second longest-running syndicated talk show host.

Marty Krofft, the savvy businessman who partnered with his older brother Sid to amass an entertainment empire fueled by such mind-blowing kids TV shows as The Banana Splits Adventure Hour, H.R. Pufnstuf and Land of the Lost, died Nov. 25. He was 86. Eight years younger than Sid, Marty Krofft died in Los Angeles of kidney failure, his family announced. (Courtesy of Sid & Marty Krofft Picture Archive)

Portia Bruner, a former anchor at Fox-owned WAGA Atlanta, is in the second season of an eponymous talk show also getting national carriage on Fox Soul. National syndication is next in her sights. A full transcript of the conversation is included.

The Sony Pictures Television-produced procedural has for the first time sold in syndication and will begin airing on the AMC Networks-backed WeTV starting Nov. 12. The deal covers the first six seasons of the Shemar Moore-led drama from exec producer Shawn Ryan. The upcoming seventh and final season of the CBS series is also included in the deal with WeTV.

Scott Koondel thinks that the model he’s using to sell Judy Justice – Judge Judy Sheindlin’s next chapter, which streams on Amazon’s Freevee – is one he can apply to many other shows in syndication. “I have a lot of shows that are for streaming and eventually for syndication,” said Koondel, who worked in distribution for CBS from 1997 to 2018, the last six as EVP and chief corporate content licensing officer. He started at Paramount in 1994. “I see a world where I could provide syndicated shows for TV stations and not have to deficit finance.”