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EXCLUSIVE: NBC has handed a put pilot commitment to Aunties, a comedy from The Amber Ruffin Show team of writer Shantira Jackson, star/executive producer Amber Ruffin and executive producers Seth Meyers and Mike Shoemaker via their Sethmaker Shoemeyers production company. Written by Jackson loosely based on her life…

The Amber Ruffin Show will officially be back for a second season after Peacock renewed the late-night talk show. The show launched in September 2020 and was picked up for an additional 10 episodes in December before being picked up through September in May. The renewal means that the show, hosted by the eponymous Late…

Amber Ruffin launched her eponymous late-night talk show during the pandemic and as such has never experienced the roar of her own studio audience. This will change in August as The Amber Ruffin Show prepares to bring in a live crowd for the first time. The Peacock show will introduce a fully vaccinated audience…

Amber Ruffin will be on the ground in Tokyo to cover the Olympics for Peacock. The host, writer and exec producer of late-night series The Amber Ruffin Show will be providing her own unique, comedic analyses of the competition, as well as a look-back at her own experiences in the world of sports. Ruffin coached…

“It has been a long year,” Today’s Savannah Guthrie says in a new “Plan Your Vaccine” PSA from NBCUniversal. “It’s been anything but normal,” her fellow Today co-host Hoda Kotb notes in the clip. Tough to argue with that. The video, which you can watch above, also features Mario Lopez, Mike Tirico, Renée Elise…

Amber Ruffin is getting a linear bow for her Peacock late-night show. The Amber Ruffin Show will air in a 1:30 a.m. slot on NBC on Friday February 26 and March 5. It will take the slot of repeats of A Little Late with Lilly Singh, which do not generally air on Friday nights. The move is a boon for the nascent…

Amber Ruffin has joined the Broadway-bound team of Some Like It Hot as a co-writer of the film-to-stage adaptation. The host of Peacock’s The Amber Ruffin Show will partner with Tony nominee Matthew López on the new musical’s book. The announcement was made today by producers The Shubert Organization and Neil Meron…

Late-Night Laughs is Deadline's weekly look at the business of jokes after dark. We focus on the biggest topics in the world of late-night, the people who make these shows tick and the moments that go viral. Drop me a line at pwhite@deadline.com with tips or suggestions. This week, we talk to Amber Ruffin and Jenny…

If there is anyone who could deliver the worst news in the world with a smile on her face and give you hope that everything will be OK, it’s Amber Ruffin. With her sweet and cheery demeanor and a don’t-mess-with-me twist of irreverent shade, Ruffin has written for various shows and her signature comedy has been…

In a special surprise panel at CTAM, comedian Amber Ruffin was joined by Jenny Hagel and Seth Meyers to talk about her upcoming half-hour talk show The Amber Ruffin Show on Peacock which according to her, will take the best parts from regular late-night shows. What does that mean exactly? At the beginning of the…

Larry Wilmore is heading back to late-night with a new show on Peacock. The streamer has ordered the Untitled Larry Wilmore Show (w/t) and will pair it with The Amber Ruffin Show to launch a weekly topical late-night block. It marks the Black-ish exec producer's return to late-night television following his stint as a…

Amber Ruffin has become a breakout star thanks to her appearances on Late Night With Seth Meyers during quarantine. This included the writer and performer taking over the top of the NBC late-night show during the Black Lives Matters protests, detailing her own run-ins with police. So, it's no surprise that NBCU…