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 Jeong. Other potential offerings include a true-crime strip from Warner Bros. Discovery’s Telepictures, one or two shows from Sinclair and possibly new games from CBS Media Ventures and Sony Pictures Television. It’s early, though, as station groups and studios are making budget decisions before deciding whether to go forward with their latest projects.
Telco Productions announced it fall 2024 slate of syndicated programming including new sports and general audience daily and weekly shows. Sportswrap with Jason Page is a timely sports wrap-up show […]
“Sony has informed me that I will no longer be hosting the syndicated version of Jeopardy!” Bialik wrote Friday on Instagram. “I am incredibly honored to have been nominated for a primetime Emmy for hosting this year and I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to have been a part of the Jeopardy! family.”
After a tumultuous exit from NBC — and a brief business arrangement with disgraced mogul Harvey Weinstein — Hall has gone on to become Disney’s second longest-running syndicated talk show host.
TV syndicator Broadcast Partners today announced that on Dec. 8, the company will air a live 12-hour television special produced by Talk TV Network and hosted by Neal Ardman to […]
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Marty Krofft, the savvy businessman who partnered with his older brother Sid to amass an entertainment empire fueled by such mind-blowing kids TV shows as The Banana Splits Adventure Hour, H.R. Pufnstuf and Land of the Lost, died Nov. 25. He was 86. Eight years younger than Sid, Marty Krofft died in Los Angeles of kidney failure, his family announced. (Courtesy of Sid & Marty Krofft Picture Archive)
Portia Bruner, a former anchor at Fox-owned WAGA Atlanta, is in the second season of an eponymous talk show also getting national carriage on Fox Soul. National syndication is next in her sights. A full transcript of the conversation is included.
The Sony Pictures Television-produced procedural has for the first time sold in syndication and will begin airing on the AMC Networks-backed WeTV starting Nov. 12. The deal covers the first six seasons of the Shemar Moore-led drama from exec producer Shawn Ryan. The upcoming seventh and final season of the CBS series is also included in the deal with WeTV.
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 – is one he can apply to many other shows in syndication. “I have a lot of shows that are for streaming and eventually for syndication,” said Koondel, who worked in distribution for CBS from 1997 to 2018, the last six as EVP and chief corporate content licensing officer. He started at Paramount in 1994. “I see a world where I could provide syndicated shows for TV stations and not have to deficit finance.”
Monetizing social is the next challenge, said syndication executives from Live With Kelly and Mark, The Drew Barrymore Show, Sony and Fox at TVNewsCheck’s TV2025 conference last week.
The plan for a Judy Justice foray into broadcast syndication is coming into focus. According to sources, the Amazon Freevee court show, created by and starring Judy Sheindlin, is being taken out to stations by Scott Koondel’s Sox Entertainment, targeting a fall 2024 launch. As Deadline noted in May, when rumors about a potential Judy Justice syndication play first surfaced, the move would make the first original court show on streaming also the first streaming show to sell into broadcast syndication.
The syndicated Extra, distributed by Warner Bros. TV, has produced more than 9,000 episodes, been on over 14,000 red carpets and logged more than 79,000 celebrity interviews. It’s become so much a part of its audience’s daily lives that producers report fans coming up to them at airports and singing its name: “Extra! Extra!”
Daily Blast Live, a Tegna-produced topical talker shot in Denver, may be heralding a new wave of cheaper, functional syndicated daytime shows. Its producer, Burt Dubrow and Tegna’s Brian Weiss, VP of entertainment programming and multicast networks, make the case. A full transcript of the conversation is included.
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 show.
The comedian-actor Jeong will executive produce with Jim Biederman with a 2024 launch target.
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 return on Oct. 16. This comes after Barrymore originally planned to return on Sept. 18 when the writers were still striking and then reversed her decision after much picketing and outcry from WGA members. However, the show will now be without three WGA members of its own — Chelsea White, Cristina Kinon and Liz Koe — who have decided not to return to the show. The trio are co-head writers.
After having to postpone its premiere due to the writers’ strike, CBS Media Ventures’ The Drew Barrymore Show will debut its fourth season on Monday, Oct. 16, the show posted on Instagram today.
The Jennifer Hudson Show will return for its sophomore season in syndication beginning next week after delaying its premiere due to the WGA strike, which officially came to an end earlier this week. Beginning Monday, Oct. 2, the host will welcome guests Gwen Stefani, Niall Horan, Taye Diggs and Cedric the Entertainer, among others, for the daytime talk show’s first week back.
The syndicated daytime talker adds 21 stations as the new season gets underway, now carried in over 55% of U.S. TV homes.
The syndicated daytime talk show can now proceed without trouble after the WGA and the AMPTP reached a tentative deal on Sunday.
The rocky daytime TV landscape has hit another bump.
Sherri Shepherd tested positive for COVID, causing a temporary halt to taping of her daytime talk show. The show announced Shepherd’s positive test in an Instagram post Wednesday. “I am absolutely heartbroken that I cannot return to host my show this week,” Shepherd said in a statement. “As soon as I get the all-clear from my doctor, I look forward to coming back strong to deliver the fun, laughter and a real good time.”
AIM Tell-A-Vision Group (AIM TV), producers of the travel show Raw Travel, announced today that beginning this weekend, the show will broadcast in an all-time high of 184 U.S. cities representing 97% […]
After lengthy negotiations, Wheel Of Fortune co-host Vanna White has extended her contract for additional two years to continue on the hit syndicated game show through the 2025-06 season. The news comes as the show just kicked off Season 41 last week, which will be the last for host Pat Sajak. White will provide continuity, working alongside Wheel’s new host, Ryan Seacrest, who will take over for Sajak next fall.
As Drew Barrymore digs herself into a deeper hole regarding the return of her daytime talk show, lost in the debate is a conversation about the peculiar nature of syndicated TV.
As co-hosts, Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos are tasked with enacting a version of their marriage on-camera. Where does that performance begin and end?
The Jennifer Hudson Show is following The Drew Barrymore Show and The Talk in delaying its upcoming season while the writers remain on strike. A source close to the production confirms to Deadline that after much discussion, and at Hudson’s urging, The Jennifer Hudson Show is pausing production and its season two premiere, which was slated for Monday, Sept. 18.
Drew Barrymore, who drew criticism for taping new episodes of her daytime talk show despite the ongoing writers and actors strikes, now says she’ll wait until the labor issues are resolved. Hours later CBS’s The Talk did the same.
“I won’t polish this with bells and whistles and publicists and corporate rhetoric. I’ll just stand out there and accept and be responsible,” the “Drew Barrymore Show” host says.
Extra, as it enters its 30th season in syndication, is dropping two podcasts into the mix: weekly entry Extra: The Podcast and twice-weekly True Crime Daily, drawn from the syndicated strip of the same name. They will be produced in partnership with Audacy.
On Monday, two audience members were removed from a taping of the CBS show as the WGA strike continues.
Ken Jennings will be hosting Jeopardy as it returns for its 40th season. The show returns today, Sept. 11, as part of a “changed” season 40, per exec producer Michael Davies. There had been confusion as to whether Jennings would host solo or whether Mayim Bialik, who has co-hosted the show, would return given the fact that SAG-AFTRA is on strike.
Mathis Court with Judge Mathis, Justice For the People with Judge Milian and Equal Justice with Judge Eboni K. Williams are now available.
The actress says the fourth season of the show will abide by the rules of the writers and actors strikes in not promoting struck work. However, the WGA argues that The Drew Barrymore Show is a struck show and it plans to picket outside its studios this week.
With Major Studios Cooling On Syndication, Stations Seek Program Alternatives
Several low-cost shows are premiering this fall, but big names are nowhere to be seen.
The pop culture game show based on crosswords will debut on top market stations belonging to Fox, CBS, Nexstar, Scripps, Hearst, Gray, Sinclair and others, with Fox’s WWOR New York slotting It at 6 p.m. weeknights.
Mayim Bialik will not be hosting Season 2 of Celebrity Jeopardy as she continues to support the ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, Variety has learned from sources. On Monday, ABC issued a press release with changes to its fall schedule, noting that Ken Jennings will host the new season of Celebrity Jeopardy, which premieres Sept. 27 at 8 p.m. ET.
CBS News said Monday that the series, in primetime since 1988, will be repackaged as a syndicated strip weekdays this fall with contributors Jericka Duncan and Jonathan Vigliotti anchoring the episodes. All cases that will air have been updated to include new information.
