‘Judge Judy’ Extends Daytime Reign As CBS Media Ventures Renews Repeat Package And ‘Hot Bench’ Through 2026
Both daytime strips have been renewed through the end of the 2025-26 season on stations covering 95% of U.S. TV households. Judge Judy has …
Raw Travel’s ‘My Summer In Ukraine’ Series Premieres April 27
AIM Tell-A-Vision Group (AIM TV), producers of travel show Raw Travel, announced that the first part of their four-part docuseries, My …
‘Live With Kelly & Mark’ Retains Strong Daytime Audience As Consuelos Celebrates Co-Hosting Anniversary
At a time when daytime talk shows are on a relative decline in viewership Live seems to have found the secret sauce to retaining its …
‘Bob Hearts Abishola’ To Make Syndicated Debut This Fall
Bob Hearts Abishola will premiere in broadcast syndication this fall on station groups including Nexstar, Sinclair, Hearst, Tegna, Scripps, …
‘Suits’ To Make Broadcast Debut On MyNetwork TV
Suits will make its broadcast television debut on MyNetwork TV this fall, where it will be offered on free television for the first time. …
Emmy-Winning ‘Tamron Hall’ Renewed For Sixth Season
Picking up Disney’s second longest-running syndicated show are ABC Owned Television Stations and leading broadcast groups including Hearst, …
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Game Shows Are TV’s First Stop On The Road To Interactivity
Many in the veteran genre are introducing apps, QR codes, the metaverse and more to retain and engage audiences, grow viewers and optimize …
‘Jennifer Hudson Show’ EP/Co-Showrunner Mary Connelly To Step Down, Leave Warner Bros. After 20 Years
Mary Connelly will be departing as executive producer and co-showrunner of The Jennifer Hudson Show at the end of daytime syndicated talk …
Tamron Hall Cancels Episode After On-Set Kitchen Fire
Today’s episode of ABC‘s Tamron Hall show was scotched after a grease fire in an on-set kitchen caused a brief evacuation of the Upper West …
Syndication’s Old Rules No Longer Apply
Anything goes as station groups forge their own content fiefdoms. Pictured: Sony Pictures Television is offering stations two new hours of …
Pat Sajak’s Final ‘Wheel Of Fortune’ Episode Air Date Set
Pat Sajak's final run on Wheel of Fortune is quickly coming to a close. After more than four decades as host of the iconic game show, …
‘Jennifer Hudson’ To Attend ‘Abbott Elementary’
The Jennifer Hudson Show will spend the week of April 8 with the cast of ABC’s Emmy-winning comedy, Abbott Elementary. Series star and …
Fox First Run Renews Game Shows And Expands Super Fan Experience
25 Words or Less, Pictionary and Person, Place, or Thing to air on the Fox Television Stations through 2024-25 season.
Debmar-Mercury Renews ‘Sherri’ For Season 3
The talker is cleared in 95% of the U.S. on stations from groups including Fox Television Stations, Nexstar, Sinclair, Hearst, Gray and …
CBS And Game Show Enterprises Studios To Produce Syndicated Game Show ‘Flip Side’
Episodes will get a second run on Game Show Network after the daily show premieres in broadcast syndication starting this fall. Jaleel While …
‘Karamo’ Picked Up for Season 3
Karamo has been renewed for a third season, Tracie Wilson, executive vice president, NBCUniversal Syndication Studios & E! News, said …
‘The Steve Wilkos Show’ Renewed For Season 18 In National Syndication
NBCUniversal Syndication Studios has renewed The Steve Wilkos Show for an 18th season in national syndication. The Steve Wilkos Show is the …
Hearst Media To Debut ‘Jack Hanna’s Passport’
Hearst Media Production Group, a producer and distributor of wildlife programming, is set to launch a new show, Jack Hanna’s Passport. The …
Sox Entertainment Grants Two Additional Airings Of ‘Judy Justice’
TV stations with rerun rights in the older Judge Judy library expiring in the fall of 2024 that clear the new-to-broadcast series Judy …
Debmar-Mercury Renews Gameshow Network’s ‘People Puzzler’ For Season 2
The pop culture game show, based on iconic People crosswords, is set to return this fall with renewals on the Fox Television Stations, …
‘Jeopardy’ To Mark 60th Anniversary With Special Events
Sony Pictures Television said it is launching a 60th Diamond Collection campaign to mark the three-score anniversary of the …
Stations Say ‘Good Morning’ To NFL Network’s Football Talker
NFL Network's Good Morning Football is headed to syndication for the 2024-25 season, confirms Sony Pictures Television, which is handling …
Syndicated Programming’s Future In A Multiplatform World At Programming Everywhere
Programming leaders from Gray, E.W. Scripps, Sinclair and Graham Media will discuss how they’re finding creative ways to bring out fresh …
‘Drew Barrymore,’ ‘ET,’ ‘Inside Edition’ Head To Vegas For Super Bowl
As part of its week-long activation for the 2024 Super Bowl, Paramount Global took Drew Barrymore, Entertainment Tonight and Inside Edition …
Fremantle Ups Kimberly Kleid To EVP Of Current Programming
She moves up from SVP, overseeing many of the syndication company’s games shows.
Public Media Venture Group And Distributed Media Lab Partner
Public Media Venture Group (PMVG) and Distributed Media Lab (DML) today announced a new partnership focused on building state and regional …
Judge Judy, Having Conquered Streaming, Returns To Regular TV
Three years after she ended her landmark show, Judy Sheindlin returns to familiar territory when Freevee original Judy Justice enters …
‘Extra’ Renewed By Fox O&Os For Season 31
The renewal marks sixth year on the Fox Stations for the entertainment news series from Warner Bros. Television Group.
CBS Media Ventures Sets Syndicated Game Show ‘The Flip Side’ With Jaleel White
The Flip Side, a new syndicated game show hosted by Jaleel White, will launch in the fall, with CBS Stations signing on as the anchor …
‘Jennifer Hudson Show’ Renewed For Third Season
Among the station groups renewing the Warner Bros. Television Group’s Daytime Emmy-nominated talk show are Fox Television Stations and …
‘The Drew Barrymore Show’ Renewed For Season 5
After a late start to its fourth season and behind-the-scenes turmoil, The Drew Barrymore Show has received and early, drama-free renewal …
Big Swings Are Rarer, but Studios And Stations Remain In The Programming Game
As 2023 comes to a close, syndication’s one big swing for 2024 looks to be Debmar-Mercury’s talker starring and executive produced by Ken …
Telco Productions Offers New Shows For Fall 2024 Syndication
Telco Productions announced it fall 2024 slate of syndicated programming including new sports and general audience daily and weekly shows. …
Mayim Bialik Out As ‘Jeopardy’ Co-Host
"Sony has informed me that I will no longer be hosting the syndicated version of Jeopardy!" Bialik wrote Friday on Instagram. "I am …
Tamron Hall Wants To Keep The Tradition Of Daytime Talk Alive
After a tumultuous exit from NBC — and a brief business arrangement with disgraced mogul Harvey Weinstein — Hall has gone on to become …
Broadcast Partners Hosting 12-Hour Live TV Special To Raise Awareness Of Distracted Driving
TV syndicator Broadcast Partners today announced that on Dec. 8, the company will air a live 12-hour television special produced by Talk TV …
Marty Krofft, The Brains Behind A Kids TV Empire, Dies At 86
Marty Krofft, the savvy businessman who partnered with his older brother Sid to amass an entertainment empire fueled by such mind-blowing …
Talking TV: Fox’s Portia Bruner Finds Her Place In Talk
Portia Bruner, a former anchor at Fox-owned WAGA Atlanta, is in the second season of an eponymous talk show also getting national carriage …
‘SWAT’ Lands Cable Syndication Deal With WeTV
The Sony Pictures Television-produced procedural has for the first time sold in syndication and will begin airing on the AMC Networks-backed …
Scott Koondel Wants to Change Syndication Forever, Starting With ‘Judy Justice’
Scott Koondel thinks that the model he’s using to sell Judy Justice – Judge Judy Sheindlin’s next chapter, which streams on Amazon’s Freevee …
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Syndies Lean On Social To Strengthen Audience Connection
Monetizing social is the next challenge, said syndication executives from Live With Kelly and Mark, The Drew Barrymore Show, Sony and Fox at …
‘Judy Justice’ Plotting National Syndication Launch In Fall 2024
The plan for a Judy Justice foray into broadcast syndication is coming into focus. According to sources, the Amazon Freevee court show, …
How ‘Extra’ Evolved Past Tabloid History And Became A Trusted Brand Over 30 Years
The syndicated Extra, distributed by Warner Bros. TV, has produced more than 9,000 episodes, been on over 14,000 red carpets and logged …
Talking TV: Is ‘Daily Blast Live’ The New Model For Syndies?
Daily Blast Live, a Tegna-produced topical talker shot in Denver, may be heralding a new wave of cheaper, functional syndicated daytime …
She Was Oprah Before Oprah
Alice Travis might not be a familiar name now, but in the late 1970s she became the first Black woman to host a nationally syndicated talk …
Ken Jeong And Debmar-Mercury Developing Syndicated Talk Show
The comedian-actor Jeong will executive produce with Jim Biederman with a 2024 launch target.
‘Drew Barrymore Show’ To Return Without Head Writers; Seeks New Scribes
The Drew Barrymore Show is returning to screens but it will be down a few writers. The daytime talk show revealed this morning that it would …
After Strike Delay, ‘Drew Barrymore’ To Return Oct. 16
After having to postpone its premiere due to the writers’ strike, CBS Media Ventures’ The Drew Barrymore Show will debut its fourth season …
‘Jennifer Hudson Show’ Sets Season 2 Return For Monday
The Jennifer Hudson Show will return for its sophomore season in syndication beginning next week after delaying its premiere due to the WGA …