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Natalie Morales is moving to Los Angeles to host NBCUniversal’s Access Hollywood and Access Hollywood Live. She will keep a role at her current job, serving as Today’s West Coast anchor .

Veteran Today news anchor Natalie Morales, who also co-hosts the third hour of the NBC morning show, is weighing her options with her contract expiring in October. Among the options, she’s being discussed as a host for NBC’s sister entertainment show Access Hollywood, according to one source.

Bento Box Entertainment, an independent, Emmy-winning studio (Fox’S Bob’s Burgers; Comedy Central’s Legends of Chamberlin Heights; YouTube’sGlove & Boots), today announced it will develop and produce The Blues Brothers as a new primetime animated comedy series. The […]

The new daily panel talk show with four ministers from Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution will be executive produced by Bill Geddie, the co-creator and longtime former executive producer of The View. The three-week summer run on select Fox-owned stations debuts July 11.

Speculation quickly centered on CNN’s Anderson Cooper, particularly after Kelly Ripa was photographed on Tuesday leaving her home while carrying a copy of the just-released book he wrote with his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt.

The NBCU syndicated show will feature the “most outrageous and memorable Maury moments from the past 18 years” on its May 25 show.

News that Strahan would leave on May 13 came from a Live with Kelly & Michael spokesperson on Tuesday just hours after Ripa returned to the syndicated talk show after taking time off to “gather (her) thoughts” in response to learning last week that Strahan would be leaving for full-time duties on Good Morning America.

Kelly Ripa, star of ABC’s syndicated morning chat show Live with Kelly and Michael, is due to return to the program Tuesday after sitting out most of last week. She was said to be upset that she was kept out of the loop for the network’s plan to switch co-host Michael Strahan to Good Morning America later this year. On Friday, staffers received an email from Ripa saying that she would come back to work on Tuesday. In the meantime, she got apologies from Strahan and ABC boss Ben Sherwood, among others, for how the GMA affair was handled and for not telling her sooner.

Kelly Ripa promises to be back to work on Tuesday. Ripa went MIA from Live with Kelly & Michael after learning last Tuesday that her co-host Michael Strahan would be leaving the show in September to join Good Morning America full time. “I wanted to thank you all for giving me the time to process this new information,” Ripa said in an email to Live staff late Friday.

Will Kelly Ripa return to Live? How can ABC smooth relations between her and Michael Strahan before he heads to GMA? Whatever, everyone on screen is smiling as deliriously as possible.

Kelly Ripa’s unexplained absence came amid published reports that she felt blindsided and angered by co-host Michael Strahan’s departure to join Good Morning America fulltime. She hasn’t said that herself, and her spokeswoman, Lauren Auslander, did not immediately return messages inquiring about Ripa’s whereabouts.

NEW YORK (AP) — Kelly Ripa was absent from her syndicated daytime talk show Wednesday, the day after it was announced that co-host Michael Strahan was leaving to join Good […]

The History show, which makes its broadcast syndication debut in September, has added Tribune stations to its station roster. It’s being distributed by Trifecta.

The station group’s executives spell out how they are bucking the syndication system with their five-year-old strategy to develop home-grown programming like The List and Right This Minute. “Many in the industry thought we were nuts … and five years later, all of our peers are starting their own programming divisions based on the success that we’re having,” said Brian Lawlor, Scripps SVP, broadcast.

The syndicated Live With Kelly And Michael is losing Michael Strahan to a fulltime slot on ABC’s Good Morning America starting in September. Strahan has worked a couple of days a week at GMA for the past two years, but he always has to leave midway through to head to the Live studio on Manhattan’s upper West Side. He’s joining the show’s regular cast of Robin Roberts, George Stephanopoulos, Lara Logan, Amy Robach and Ginger Zee.

Independent producer and syndicator Entertainment Studios Inc. has named Darren Galatt president of advertising sales for the company’s global syndication division, effective immediately.    Galatt has been an employee of Byron Allen’s […]

Just over a month after CBS was hit with a wide-ranging lawsuit over profits from the Judge Judy show and Her Honor’s $47 million salary, the network has struck back. In an answer filed Friday in L.A. Superior Court to Rebel Entertainment Partners complaint of May 14, a somewhat embarrassed CBS said basically “no way” because the parties in question fraudulently misrepresented themselves for decades.

Jason Matheson, host of the show on Fox’s Minneapolis O&O,  was in L.A., for the American Idol finale. He spilled the beans Tuesday while doing a celebrity gossip segment: “We found out the show is getting a national test in June, to the beginning of July. So it’s going to be on Fox stations across the country. We don’t know which stations yet.”

She’ll go to Las Vegas to help sell the show with the working title Palin Rules that’s being pitched for a September 2017 syndication debut. 

Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution gives the green light for more of the panel-talk show, renewing it through 2017-18 season.

Midway through TV’s syndication season, court shows — as a genre — continue to show viewership gains. Other genres have not fared as well.

The upcoming syndicated show from NBCUniversal Domestic Television Distribution has tapped former Steve Harvey alum Jason Kurtz.

The long-running game show is the biggest beneficiary of this year’s record campaign spending spree. This cycle’s campaign spending on airtime during Wheel will easily exceed the $57 million it earned in 2012, more than any other TV show that election. So far, it’s brought in seven times more than at this point in 2012, according to estimates by Kantar Media’s Campaign Media Analysis Group.

The team working on turning the conservative firebrand into a TV judge includes well-known syndication executives Barry Wallach and Lee Villas, cable reality TV producer Warm Springs Productions and Larry Lyttle, who is credited with launching Judge Judy and Judge Joe Brown.

Citing an unnamed source, People reports that the former vice presidential candidate and conservative icon is developing a judge show with cable reality TV producer Warms Springs Productions of Missoula, Mont. “It’s a production deal,” the source says. “What happens next is she’ll meet with stations, make a pilot and sell it.”

In a new deal with Unconventional Studios, Meredith will provide “lifestyle” content to the Trifecta Entertainment-distributed Celebrity Page, which has been airing since 2013 as OK!TV.

Judge Judy Sheindlin has fired back against a lawsuit claiming that her outsize salary has driven her CBS-syndicated courtroom show into the red. Talent agency Rebel Entertainment Partners claims it has not received contractually obligated payments from CBS since 2010.

A multi-million dollar lawsuit filed today against CBS has the no-nonsense host, the syndicated small claims series and spin-off Hot Bench in the legal spotlight. Seeking widespread unspecified damages, plaintiff Rebel Entertainment Partners claim that it has been denied contractually obligated payments since 2010 from the net profits of the 19-season reality court show distributed by CBS Television because it supposedly is “losing money” while paying Judge Judy herself up to $47 million a year.

The new programming partnership between the two station groups is open to anything as long as it has a digital dimension. “I don’t like to box shows into a genre,” says Scripps’ Cater Lee. “What it does have to have — first and foremost — is a multiplatform strategy. Anyone who doesn’t think about programming that way is very short-sighted.”

The long-running syndicated courtroom series has gotten the green light through 2019.

In addition to weeknight appearances on the programming service, the classic Fox show has also been cleared for weekend syndication on the Fox Television Stations.

Under new arrangement, segments from The List will have their own dedicated channel on OwnZones.com.

About two years of reporting went into Nicholas Schimdle’s New Yorker profile of gossip news org TMZ and its “jittery” founder, Harvey Levin. It’ll be a must-read this week, especially by an anxious Levin and his lawyers as Schimdle pulls back the curtain on the operation.

Although recent kudos have been given to primetime television for its recent inclusion of minorities, FremantleMedia North America says it has made an effort to recruit minority personalities in daytime programming for quite some time. The production company has received praise for its diverse programming with a 2016 NAACP Image Award, which acknowledges its very own Steve Harvey in the host category for Family Feud.

With the support of Fox Television Stations, Media General agrees to a sophomore season for its syndicated entertainment news strip. Garcelle Beauvais becomes its fourth co-host.

The syndicated court show Lauren Lake’s Paternity Court has been guaranteed two more seasons. The show — distributed by Orion Television and cleared in 85% percent of the U.S. — debuted in 2013, shot in Los Angeles. It moved to Atlanta for season two in 2014.