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.
Law & Order and Law & Order: SVU will be back for the 2024/25 season after NBC renewed the pair of shows but spinoff Law & Order: Organized Crime is in a slightly more precarious position. The network has renewed Law & Order for Season 24, while Law & Order: SVU will be back for Season 26.
NBC has renewed all three One Chicago series — Chicago Med, Chicago Fire and Chicago P.D. — for the 2024-25 season. Med was renewed for Season 10, Fire for Season 13 and P.D. for Season 12. The trio of shows returned in January following a long break due to the dual writers and actors strikes with shortened seasons.
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.
The network has ordered a second season of the series, the first international edition of its NCIS franchise. The pickup corresponds with a second-season order for the show from Paramount+ in Australia.
While The Bear is currently in production on Season 3, sources confirm to Variety that FX is already cooking up Season 4, which will film back to back with the third season. FX renewed the Chicago-set restaurant dramedy for Season 3 in November and has not announced a Season 4 renewal.
HBO has picked up two more seasons of Real Time With Bill Maher, which will take the weekly talk show through its 24th season in 2026. The show’s current order was due to expire at the end of this year.
The two shows join Tracker in securing a spot in the network’s lineup for next season.
The pickup, announced by the network on Monday, also includes the return of chef Curtis Stone and cake artist Yolanda Gampp as celebrity judges.
The series premiere aired directly after the Super Bowl — which Nielsen measured as the most-watched telecast of all time — and reached 18.4 million viewers, a number that Paramount Global says has now grown to 30 million across platforms. Three more episodes have aired since, and continue to perform strongly without football lead-in: Episode 2 hit 6.9 million viewers, Episode 2 hit 7.1 million and Episode 3 hit 7.4 million.
The comedy series has been renewed for Season 4 at ABC, as announced by Willard R. Abbott Elementary’s own Mr. Johnson (William Stanford Davis) during Disney’s Television Critics Association Press Tour. The renewal comes on the heels of the much-anticipated Season 3 premiere, which was delayed due to last year’s strikes.
Fox is showing early confidence in Animal Control. The broadcast network has handed out a third season renewal to the comedy series starring Joel McHale, with the pickup arriving a month before its sophomore run debuts.
The renewal marks sixth year on the Fox Stations for the entertainment news series from Warner Bros. Television Group.
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.
HBO is extending its long-term relationship with John Oliver. The premium cabler has picked up three more seasons of Last Week Tonight With John Oliver. The renewal will take the weekly latenight show through its 13th season in 2026.
The first-year dramas, one of just a few scripted originals to air in the fall, have performed solidly.
Futurama, which Hulu revived (for the second time in the show’s life) earlier this year, will extend its run on the streamer. Hulu has ordered two more seasons — 20 episodes’ worth — of the animated series from creators Matt Groening and David X. Cohen. Hulu’s initial pickup of Futurama in 2022 was also for two seasons and 20 episodes, so the new order will take the show through season 14. Season 12 is set to premiere in 2024.
The CW has picked up a second season of U.K. comedy Everyone Else Burns ahead of the show’s first season debuting on the U.S. broadcaster. Part of the CW’s acquisition-heavy fall slate, a programming lineup set by new owner Nexstar to avoid impacts of the now-ended writers strike and ongoing actors strike, Everyone Else Burns Season 1 originally aired on Channel 4 in the U.K. in January. It will premiere Thursday at 9:30 p.m. on the CW.