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TBS late-nighter “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee” has been canceled after seven seasons. “As we continue to shape our new programming strategy, we’ve made some difficult, business-based decisions,” said a TBS spokesperson. “We celebrate this extraordinarily talented cast and crew and look forward to exploring new opportunities to work with them in the future.” Last season, the show averaged 466,000 viewers.
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Showtime announced last week that late-night talk show “Desus & Mero” would not return for a fifth season because the show’s hosts, Desus Nice and Kid Mero, are “pursuing separate creative endeavors moving forward.” Puck shed light on the abrupt end of the duo’s partnership, explaining their manager, Victor Lopez, was the cause of the split. Sources told Puck that Showtime had allegedly asked Lopez to stop working on the show due to accusations of abusive behavior toward employees. While Desus agreed with the network’s decision, Mero felt it would be disloyal.
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The Television Academy has announced the awards in 25 categories that will be presented during the 74th Emmy Awards on Monday, September 12 on NBC. There are no major changes from last year – Outstanding Sketch Series replaces Outstanding Variety Special, and Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special replaces Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series, as the categories alternate. The Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremonies will take place Saturday, September 3, and Sunday, September 4, with an edited presentation airing September 10 on FXX.
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FX picked up “Mayans M.C.” for a fifth season. The renewal deal includes co-creator Elgin James signing a new multiple-year overall deal with Disney’s 20th Television. “The Mayans have battled for respect, territory and power through four intense seasons that have set the stage for an explosive fifth season that will test their very survival under ‘EZ’s’ newly claimed leadership,” said Nick Grad, President of Originals at FX. “Elgin James and the creative team, the brilliant cast, crew and our partners at 20th Television have kept fans coming back for more and we are ready to take that ride with them for another season.”
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Josh Lieb, former EP of “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” has taken the reins at another Comedy Central series. “Hell of a Week with Charlamagne tha God,” rebranded for season two from “Tha God’s Honest Truth,” launches Thursday, July 28 at 11:30p under executive producers Lieb, Lenard “Charlamagne” McKelvey, Stephen Colbert, showrunner Rachael Edwards, Aaron McGruder, Karen Kinney, James Dixon and Norm Aladjem.
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CBS’s adaptation of the word-twisting game show “Lingo,” hosted by RuPaul Charles, is set to start filming at UK’s dock10 studios in Media City, Salford next month.
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Rodney Barnes (“Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty”) has renewed his overall deal with HBO for three more years. Barnes will continue to focus his creative efforts on stories that challenge audiences to reconsider preconceived notions and stereotypes.
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Executive producer Martin Gero is replacing Steven Lilien and Bryan Wynbrandt as showrunner on NBC’s upcoming “Quantum Leap” reboot, while Dean Georgaris joins as exec producer. Lilien and Wynbrandt, who wrote the pilot, will remain with the project as executive producers; production on the series will proceed on schedule.
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Season two of HBO Max’s “Sweet Life: Los Angeles” launches Thursday, August 4 with four episodes. The unscripted series from Issa Rae explores themes of loyalty, legacy and love.
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All eight episodes of Hulu’s “Wedding Season” drop Thursday, September 8. The series tells the story of Katie and Stefan, who fall for each other at a wedding and begin an affair despite Katie already having a fiancé. Two months later at Katie’s wedding, her new husband and his entire family are murdered. The police think Stefan did it, while Stefan thinks Katie is the culprit.
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Controversial murder cases are re-examined in ID’s “Reasonable Doubt,” back for season five on Tuesday, August 9 at 10p.
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Antenna TV celebrates the 100th birthday of Norman Lear on Wednesday, July 27 with a 12-hour marathon of the TV legend’s shows. In addition to episodes of “The Jeffersons,” “Maude,” “One Day at a Time,” and “Archie Bunker’s Place,” the stunt will include segments of Lear talking about his shows and career.
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The NFL officially revealed the launch of NFL+ – the league’s exclusive video streaming subscription service that allows fans to get access to live out-of-market preseason games, live local and primetime regular season and postseason games (phone and tablet only), live local and national audio for every game, NFL Network shows on-demand, NFL Films archives and more. NFL+ is available in the NFL App across all app stores for $4.99/month or $39.99/year.
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The XFL pulled back the curtains on the cities and venues that its teams will call home, starting February 18, 2023. Host cities will include Arlington, Houston, Orlando, Las Vegas, San Antonio, Seattle, St. Louis and Washington D.C. In addition, the league selected the City of Arlington, Texas as its new football operations Hub, signing a three-year agreement that will provide a centralized performance facility and multiple practice venues for preseason and in-week training for the League’s eight teams.
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ESPN8: The Ocho makes it return as the initiative takes over ESPN2 for 24 hours on August 5. The latest in the evolution of The Ocho includes 14.5 hours of live events that will see the Turf Wars Kickball Invitational and the US Air Guitar All-Star Air and include events such as the American Cornhole League’s SuperHole III. Other offerings will showcase corgi races, Spikeball, air hockey, World Chase Tag and Death Diving, while introducing new-to-The-Ocho distinguishable sports such as pickleball, belt sander races, bed races, financial modeling, paper wings and Teqball.
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Add Google to the tech companies vying for rights to the NFL Sunday Ticket. According to The New York Times, Google’s YouTube has offered a bid for 2023 rights, along with Apple, Amazon and Disney. “A number of companies are in strong position to potentially land Sunday Ticket, but we still have a ways to go in this process,” Brian Rolapp the NFL’s chief media and business offers, told the NYT.
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Actor Paul Sorvino died July 25. He was 83. In addition to numerous film roles, most notably in “Goodfellas,” Sorvino collected TV credits, including a season on “Law & Order.”
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