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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.

Given the negatives that face the syndicated TV marketplace — a lack of successful new entries, immense competition from digital video for ad dollars and technology that allows viewers to watch on their own time — somehow its major daytime players stand to do solid business in the 2016 ad bonanza. Stable, veteran shows like Ellen from Warner Bros. are seen as safe bets for advertisers.

Launching a syndicated show is never easy, and it’s made even more difficult when there’s no established syndicator attached. That doesn’t seem to faze T.D. Jakes. “Everything I ever did started at ground level zero,” he says. “It is the fight that attracts me. If everything were nice and neat and all put together, I’m not sure I would be as energetic.”

The new talker from NBCUniversal Domestic Television Distribution will be produced in New York City and feature a live band when it debuts in syndication on Sept. 12.

FABLife will not be returning for a second season. Original episodes will continue to be produced and aired for the remainder of the season. “We’re extremely proud of everyone involved with the show and would like to thank them for all of their contributions and tireless efforts,” said Janice Marinelli, president, Disney/ABC Home Entertainment and Television Distribution. “We are especially appreciative of our talented and dynamic co-hosts Chrissy Teigen, Joe Zee, Leah Ashley and Lauren Makk, and we would also like to extend a huge thanks to our station partners for all of their support.”

Disney/ABC Home Entertainment and Television Distribution takes over distribution from MGM and clears the viral videos show on the ABC Owned Television Stations Group. The combination of ABC O&Os and Right This Minute partner stations creates a clearance footprint of 60% of the U.S. and Includes 18 of the top 20 markets for 2016-17.

NATPE’s only broadcast TV panel featured (l-r after moderator Paige Albiniak of B&C): Jack Abernethy of  Fox Television Stations on the state of network-affiliate relations, Nexstar’s Perry Sook on why station groups shouldn’t be in national syndication; and Tribune’s Larry Wert on the on-going feud between CW and Tribune in which the network is demanding higher reverse comp fees from Tribune.

Fox Television Stations join, Media General and Cox in re-upping the syndicated talker, pushing clearances to more than 50% of the U.S. entering NATPE.

Sheriffs El Dorado County, a 30-minute original reality series produced by Foothill 7 Television in Sacramento, Calif., is being offered for syndication and cable distribution for this fall. The show, […]

The syndicated game show from FremantleMedia North America and Debmar-Mercury will return for a third season following renewals by the Tribune and Sinclair station groups.

Live is good through 2019-20 on the ABC Owned Television Stations Group, while Who Wants To Be A Millionaire is extended through 2016-17 on the majority of ABC Owned Stations.

Now in its sixth season, Graham Bensinger’s weekly interview show In Depth with sports heroes of yesterday and today has grown to 26 half-hours per season offered to stations on a straight barter split. It now has 87% U.S. coverage.

Michel Pelletier has been named director of marketing for The List, Scripps’ half-hour daily news magazine show.

Dish Nation, the nationally syndicated entertainment news program, today nameed Da Brat as co-host on the Atlanta-based team, announced Stephen Brown, EVP of programming and development, Fox Television Stations. Da […]

Tony Optican, head of programming at Media General, says both his company and the Fox Television Stations are working to figure out how to increase the distribution of the entertainment-news show despite the fact that Media General has no syndication sales apparatus set up to market the freshman syndie.

Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios is launching a comedy talk show in 2016. Trending Funny is a daily one-hour talkfest hosted by a panel of comedians that features celebrity guests discussing what’s trending on social media and talking about pop culture.

Where the challenges of daytime TV are concerned, Harry Connick Jr. sounds like a man who is entering the syndication fray with his eyes wide open. In this interview with TVNewsCheck’s Adam Buckman, he says he’s aware of the failure rate of new shows in daytime, and acknowledges that Harry — like any new high-profile syndicated offering — represents a gamble for everyone involved. However, he also emphasizes that he’s well aware of the role that stations play in the success or failure of a show like his. And he’s shrewd enough to express his gratitude to the stations that are picking up his show.

Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Lisa Rinna is said to have landed a job as the host of an upcoming NBC talk show, according to sources. Rinna will star in the new program with former Party of Five actor Scott Wolf, R&B singer ­Kelis and comedian Al Jackson.

CBS Television Distribution names Jonathan Bingaman EVP, domestic cable sales and Robert Schildhouse is now EVP, digital licensing and distribution.

The new syndicated entertainment hour will debut this fall on station groups including Fox Television Stations, Sinclair, Scripps, Media General, Hubbard, Cox, Nexstar, Gray, Bonten, Hearst, Raycom, Dispatch and Quincy.

The talk show is renewed by NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations and Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution through the 2019-20 season.

The NBC Owned Television Stations today announced that Ashley Roberts will make her national debut as the new host of NBC’s 1st Look on Saturday, Jan. 9, the night before […]

The current second season of NBCUniversal Domestic Television Distribution’s The Meredith Vieira Show will be its last. After wrapping production on the daytime talk show, Vieira will segue to work on NBC’s coverage of the Summer Olympics games in Rio de Janeiro.

Sources tell Page Six that NBCUniversal will yank the The Meredith Vieira Show early next year. A TV insider says the low-rated syndicated talker has been telling reps of celebrity guests that it will be canceled, and the plug will be pulled in March.

Entertainment Studios Inc. has launched of its 39th series, Funny You Should Ask. It is available for broadcast strip and cable syndication in fall 2016. The comedy/game show features a […]

The broadcast group will air the new syndicated talker on its 29 stations and has taken over distribution from Debmar-Mercury.

The true-crime talk show that has already lined up a test run on Sinclair stations now adds tests on some Tegna and Scripps stations as well.

He joined the sports syndicator when it launched in 1979 and will step down at the end of the year.

She is leaving the daytime talk show to focus on her cosmetic line. Chrissy Teigen, Joe Zee, Lauren Makk and Leah Ashley also serve as co-hosts on the freshman syndicated show from Disney-ABC.

The Steve Harvey-hosted show is up in households and the major demos, where it’s beating even Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy. Here’s a look at fall’s big syndie trends.

South of Wilshire comes from TMZ’s Harvey Levin and will get an eight-week tryout beginning in January.

Advertisers have left no platform unturned in their quest to find and reach linear-TV-phobic millennials. And now they’ve turned to a surprising place: syndicated television. TV syndication studio Twentieth Television, which is home to eight of the top 10 syndicated shows among adults ages 18-34, has spent the last two years meeting with clients to emphasize syndication’s overlooked success in reaching those oh-so-prized millennial viewers.

The syndicated game shows, in cooperation with the veterans’ support campaign Got Your 6, are using this week’s episodes to spotlight those who have served.

Wendy Williams is holding her own in a tough business, even growing her audience in some measurements during her seventh season. The syndicated Wendy Williams Show is watched by roughly 2 million people each day. The bejewelled microphone she carries and the collection of wigs in her dressing room speak to Williams’ outsized personality. She’s noticeably toned things down, however, to broaden her appeal.