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Full Frontal with Samantha Bee has promoted Mike Drucker and Kristen Bartlett to co-head writers for the late-night talker’s fifth season, which kicked off last week. They replace former head writer Melina Taub. The show’s writing team is coming off winning the 2020 Comedy/Variety Special WGA Award for last year’s Not…

South Park and the NBA may have gotten there first – figuratively if not literally – but Samantha Bee is heading to China. And she has some questions. In a special episode of TBS’ Full Frontal With Samantha Bee taped earlier this month and set to air next Wednesday, Bee travels to Hong Kong to ask, as TBS says, “What…

TBS has renewed Full Frontal with Samantha Bee for a fifth season and has extended its first-look deal with Bee's production company Swimsuit Competition. The WarnerMedia-owned network is bringing back the Emmy Award-winning late-night show through 2020, which will give Bee the opportunity to skewer candidates across…

Full Frontal with Samantha Bee is gearing up for the 2020 election with a new mobile game. The TBS late-night show announced Saturday it’s getting back into the mobile political game business with the “Full Frontal'$ Totally Unrigged Primary” app, after last year’s "This Is Not A Game: The Game." The show describes…

Turner’s TBS, TNT and truTV have set their lineups for next month’s New York Comic Con, with panels featuring the likes of All Elite Wrestling and Chris Jericho, an exclusive sneak peek of the upcoming TNT sci-fi series Snowpiercer, and Samantha Bee previewing her next Full Frontal special “Election 2020.” The lineup…

Veteran Full Frontal with Samantha Bee correspondent Amy Hoggart is stepping into the spotlight to lead a new show on TBS. The WarnerMedia cable outlet said today that it has ordered the series that will tackle everyday problems through Hoggart's unique kaleidoscope of humor. Blending scripted and unscripted segments…

Hamberders will be served at Samantha Bee’s second Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, an event set to air Saturday, April 27, opposite the actual (and non-funny) White House Correspondents’ Dinner. “I promised myself I'd never do another one of these,” Bee says in a new promo for the event (watch it above)…

Among the yuletide firsts that can almost certainly be claimed by Samantha Bee and her Full Frontal TBS Christmas On I.C.E. special tonight is a joyful little musical rhyming of “holiday season” with “lies and treason.” “Maybe the first,” Bee conceded of the lyric during a recent chat with Deadline, “but maybe not the…

Full Frontal with Samantha Bee is donating a six-bedroom house to El Refugio, an organization that works with detained immigrants and their families, as part of its I.C.E.-focused, ice skating holiday special Christmas on I.C.E. El Refugio provides visitation to immigrants at Stewart Detention Center in the remote…

Even if we give Megyn Kelly the benefit of the doubt as to whether she’s lately boned up sufficiently to answer her own lame question about what’s so wrong with blackface, TBS’ Full Frontal with Samantha Bee correspondent Ashley Nicole Black offers a perfect little study guide. Black, who earned a masters degree in…

Many throughout the entertainment industry participated in the Time’s Up National Walkout and Moment of Solidarity today to show their support of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and Deborah Ramirez in their accusations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Some TV staffs and stars such as those from Will & Grace…

With the mid-term elections just two months away, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee has rolled out This is Not a Game: The Game, the TBS show’s live mobile app that rewards political knowledge with cash prizes. As Bee explained during the Turner upfronts last May, the goal of the game is to drive voter turnout for the…