Fox’s decision follows a four-week test this summer and clears the way for the show’s national syndication by Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution. The Real is being sold for two years on a cash-plus-barter basis (four national minutes, 11 local minutes).
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The cast and creators of the Emmy-winning sitcom hit “Modern Family” gave back Monday, honoring some 600 of the show’s devotees with a so-called “fan […]
Debmar-Mercury and Fremantle have tapped the host of CBS’s Late Late Show to also host Celebrity Name Game, a new half-hour game show they have in the works for fall 2014. The show would serve as a companion to Family Feud.
NBCUniversal Domestic Television Distribution has added a number of station group deals for next fall’s talk show, including Hearst, LIN and Sinclair. These follow an earlier sale to the NBC Owned Television Stations.
Lost amid all the ratings news about freshman talk shows (Queen Latifah, Arsenio et al.) is that veteran yakker Wendy Williams is putting up strong numbers in the new season.
The new syndicated show is being prepped for next fall and will feature a panel of three judges.
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Former Telepictures President Hilary Estey McLoughlin will oversee first-run syndication and program development at the syndicator.
Twentieth Television’s off-net comedy has been cleared in more than 180 markets on a number of station groups including CBS, Sinclair and LIN for a fall 2014 debut.
Former Entertainment Tonight staple John Tesh will host and distribute Intelligence for Your Life, positioning it as a companion to local news, either as a standalone half-hour or as two back-to-back episodes. Clips from the show will be available for stations to insert into their local news.
The first-run panel show from Canada’s CTV is now being syndicated in the U.S. by PPI Releasing on a cash-plus-barter basis.
Santa Monica, Calif.-based Telco Productions Inc. is launching a The Balancing Act in syndication for fall 2014. The Balancing Act is an hour magazine-style daily morning show about women and […]
Soft ratings, a huge budget and “disdain” for her female audience — Q Scores report only 10% of women view Couric favorably — have the host’s Disney/ABC talk show in jeopardy as a renewal decision nears.
‘Arsenio’ Better Get Better, For Tribune’s Sake
One month after its auspicious debut as a nationally syndicated late-night talker, The Arsenio Hall Show is showing signs of trouble in the ratings and behind the scenes. For Tribune Broadcasting, which is a partner in producing the show, the stakes couldn’t be higher.
The syndicator says “the sales team is currently in the marketplace having conversations with our station partners” on whether the sophomore talker will get the nod for a third season. This season, new EP Rachel Miskowiec has brightened the set and tweaked the format from single-topic to multi-segment shows with celebrity guests.
The Arsenio Hall Show has made a big change at the top, with executive producer/showrunner Neal Kendeall stepping down.Eric Pankowski, SVP of programming and development for Arsenio Hall distributor CBS TV Distribution, will step in as interim showrunner while Hall mounts a search for a new exec producer.
Former NBC News correspondent and predator-catcher Chris Hansen could be back on TV soon with a new daily syndicated talk show with a true crime focus. Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution has shot a pilot with Hansen.
Lionsgate-owned Debmar-Mercury is finalizing a deal with TV station owner E.W. Scripps to partner on a syndicated legal panel talk show with The View alum Star Jones as one of the co-hosts. There isn’t a full-fledged pilot for the project yet, but segments with Jones have been taped.
With The ABC Owned Television Stations reupping the show for two more years, the CBS Television Distribution talk show is renewed in nearly 90% of the U.S. Other station groups on board include CBS Television Stations, Hearst, Post-Newsweek and Sinclair Broadcasting.
The new chat fest hosted by the comedian-actress is designed to debut next fall. It’s unclear where ABC would slot the show, but it is not a replacement for Disney-ABC’s daytime talk show Katie with Katie Couric.
Modern Family just launched in syndication on USA Network, a big win for the cable network that’s not usually known for it’s comedy. If you’ve never seen Modern Family, or heard of the hit show you might not even know it’s only a syndication launch with the network’s smart, social-TV savvy launch strategy. Here are the details.
The household rating for Sony’s Queen Latifah was up 15% from its year-ago time slot average and up 7% from its lead-in, according to Nielsen. Syndication’s other big daytime newcomer Bethenny has not fare as well.
The Simpsons are finally headed to cable. Gary Newman, chairman-CEO of 20th Century Fox TV, told an investor confab Thursday that the studio is poised to shop a mammoth package of rerun rights to the enduring toon’s nearly 600 episodes.
Looking back on 30 seasons of Wheel of Fortune, co-host Vanna White manages to stay popular with viewers in an age of reality show television.
His CTD syndicated talker was Monday’s top-rated latenight broadcast program in adults 18-49 and 25-54. In households, Arsenio clocked a 1.9/4, which was up 90% from its year-ago time period averages.
‘Bethenny’ Debuting Today Is All Bethenny
Following a successful summer test run, the syndicated show from Executive Producer Ellen DeGeneres and Warner Bros. launches today, and host Bethenny Frankel says it reflects her vision: “I feel even better about this now than I did with the summer test. I have my own people. I am involved in every single thing, down to the muffins in the dressing rooms.”
Sony Pictures TV Goes All In With ‘Queen’
The syndicator is betting big on upcoming talk-variety strip Queen Latifah: high-profile producers, top-tier stations, big-name guests (that’s Will Smith above), a sparkling set and an extensive, multimedia promotional campaign that is just now taking off.
Arsenio’s Back And Ready For Take Two
With his syndicated talk show set to launch Sept. 9, Arsenio Hall is doing all he can to grab a slice of the latenight ratings pie. Two decades after his first outing went off the air, the question is whether there’s room for the 57-year-old comic in a more competitive latenight world where his rivals are younger, but not necessarily hipper (or funnier).
The new conflict talk show hosted by comedian Kirk Fox from CBS Television Distribution and Tribune will debut Sept. 9 on stations covering almost 100% of U.S. TV homes. Tribune’s Sean Compton: “It focuses on a divide between people and we use science to find out the truth.”
Leeza Gibbons and Bill Rancic return as co-hosts for 4th season beginning Sept. 9.
John Travolta, Jamie Foxx, Sharon Stone, Jake Gyllenhaal and Will Smith, who is an executive producer on the show, will appear during the first week.
MGM’s syndicated video clip show will launch its third season in all of the top 30 DMAs beginning Sept. 16.
In the top five markets, the Sony Pictures talker that debuts Sept. 16 will air at 2 p.m. in Los Angeles, Chicago and Dallas; 9 a.m. in New York; and 3 p.m. in Philadelphia.
The weekend sports-talk show In Depth with Graham Bensinger kicks off its fourth season this fall for the first time on broadcast syndication in addition to regional sports networks. It […]
The upcoming half-hour syndicated entry from MGM Television’s Orion TV Productions will air in all top 50 markets. It’s hosted by Lauren Lake and being sold on an all-barter basis in mostly one-year deals.
KTXD To Syndicate Its ‘The Broadcast’
The Dallas ME-TV affiliate has been producing, with D Magazine, D: The Broadcast. Now, the magazine is out and London Broadcasting, owner of KTXD and stations covering seven of Texas’ 19 TV markets, will begin syndicating a renamed The Broadcast on Sept. 23.
The panel talk show averaged a 1.1 household rating/4 share, up 57% from its year-ago time slots average and up 22% from its lead-in, based on Nielsen metered market ratings.
