Laying Out The Odds: The New Syndie Shows

Having a well-known host does not guarantee a new talk show’s survival. Just ask Katie Couric and Arsenio Hall, two of the highest-profile talk show hosts to debut in syndication over the past few years. Both their efforts failed. This week another new batch of shows premieres, and they hope to survive until a second season against very tall odds.

Telco Offers Weekly Half-Hour Political Satire

Santa Monica, Calif.-based Telco Productions Inc. is offering The Flipside for fall 2014. Telco says the new weekly, topical half-hour satire series “throws political correctness out the window and pokes […]