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Sherri Shepherd’s new daytime talker Sherri is on track for a fall premiere. Lionsgate’s Debmar-Mercury has set Monday, September 12, for the debut of the nationally syndicated weekday talk show, with clearances now at more than 97% of the U.S. Anchored by Fox Television Stations, stations belonging to Cox, Hearst…

“Today is the final episode of The Wendy Williams Show,” guest host Sherri Shepherd told viewers of the syndicated talker on Friday. It was announced in February that a similar show hosted by Shepherd, also produced-distributed by Lionsgate's Debmar-Mercury, will inherit the Fox O&O time slots of Wendy this…

It’s official. The Wendy Williams Show will air its final episode this Friday, Deadline has confirmed. The Wendy Williams Show had been slated to continue through the end of the season with rotating guest hosts, as Williams has been sidelined with health issues for the entire season. Williams will not be present for…

Nick Cannon’s eponymous syndicated daytime talk show is coming to an end after one season. The show’s producer-distributor, Lionsgate’s Debmar-Mercury, is expected to tell the crew that the two episodes filming today will be the talker’s last ones. I hear the original plan had been for the show to go on a five-week…

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate's Debmar-Mercury, the producer-distributor of The Wendy Williams Show, and the daytime syndicated talk show’s longtime home, the Fox TV Stations, announced this morning that the talker will be replaced by Sherri, hosted by Sherri Shepherd, in the fall. With that, daytime staple The Wendy Williams…

Julissa Bermudez and Sanya Richards-Ross will return to dish and offer insights on the latest in entertainment and pop culture when Central Ave returns for its full 2020-21 season starting Saturday. The nationally syndicated entertainment analysis show, from Debmar-Mercury and Will Packer, will return to highlight…

Lionsgate's Debmar-Mercury said Tuesday that Schitt's Creek, which pulled off an unprecedented sweep of the comedy categories at Sunday’s Primetime Emmy Awards, will launch in U.S. broadcast syndication beginning September 28. The date comes after the recently ended Pop TV comedy set an October 2 launch for Comedy…

EXCLUSIVE: Syndicated gameshow Family Feud is the latest production set to get back up and running. Deadline understands that the Steve Harvey-fronted show is returning to the studio in Atlanta on Tuesday, August 4. The show is set to start airing original episodes for its 22nd season on September 14. While the show…

Nick Cannon, a new daytime syndicated talk show, which had been set for an Oct. 5 national launch, will not debut this year. I hear production has shut down on the talker in the latest fallout from the anti-Semitic remarks the actor-comedian recently made on his podcast. “We are standing by Nick in our hope that by…

Daytime Emmy-winning producers Katy Murphy Davis (The Oprah Winfrey Show, Red Table Talk) and Matt Strauss (The View, The Dr. Oz Show, Katie) have been named executive producers and showrunners of Nick Cannon, the new nationally syndicated daytime talker, hosted by Cannon, set for launch this fall. Additionally, the…

Lionsgate’s Debmar-Mercury has set Monday, September 21 for the premiere of Nick Cannon, the new nationally syndicated daytime talker headlined by the actor-comedian, in more than 90% of the U.S. So far the show is cleared on Fox, CBS, Sinclair, Hearst, Nexstar, Mission, COX, Sunbeam, Capitol, Meredith, Tegna…

Fox Corp.’s TV station division is bringing back Central Ave, a show from Debmar-Mercury and Will Packer, the film and TV producer known for hits like Girls Trip, saying it fared well in a test last November. The Atlanta-based show aims to deliver entertainment and pop culture news through a provocative, socially…