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It was a "bittersweet" night for the team behind Full Frontal With Samantha Bee. The show was canceled at TBS following the David Zaslav-led cuts across Warner Bros. Discovery but it picked up an Emmy win in the short-form category. Creative Arts Emmys 2022 Photos: Chip & Joanna Gaines, 'Queer Eye' & 'Selling Sunset'…

Call it a seven-year itch, but the sands of late-night are shifting. James Corden is leaving The Late Late Show next year after seven years in the CBS hotseat, Samantha Bee's Full Frontal was canceled at TBS, the latest cull of the new Warner Bros. Discovery empire, and Desus & Mero split up and ended their Showtime…

Full Frontal with Samantha Bee is over at TBS. The cable network has canceled the weekly late-night series after seven seasons. It is the latest major cancellation at the Warner Bros. Discovery network following the merger. Other shows canceled on the network include the second season of Chad and reality series The Big…

EXCLUSIVE: Full Frontal with Samantha Bee has had to return to its pandemic roots after its host contracted Covid. Bee tested positive for the virus, meaning that the TBS show has had to leave the studio and return to Bee's backyard woods in upstate New York to finish its final episode before heading off for a summer…

If 2020 was the year of the late-night bathtub and garage specials, the last twelve months saw somewhat of a return to normal for the entertainers making linear viewers laugh on a nightly basis. With all of the late-night hosts returned to the studio – albeit some such as Trevor Noah, Samantha Bee and Desus & Mero in…

Samantha Bee is celebrating 200 episodes of her late-night political comedy series Full Frontal. "Conan did 7,000 episodes of his show, but I feel like I'm gaining on him," she jokes. "I really can't believe it. I am really impressed with myself. It is a really great feeling. I would not have thought we would have got…

TNT and TBS have set winter premiere dates for three of their top series. The third-season bow of TNT’s Snowpiercer is set for Monday, January 24. TNT’s late-nighter Full Frontal with Samantha Bee returns for Season 7 on Thursday, January 20, with Season 17 of its Seth McFarlane toon American Dad! set for Monday…

EXCLUSIVE: Full Frontal with Samantha Bee will be back on TBS in 2022 after the network renewed the late-night series for a seventh season. Bee's show is moving from Wednesday nights to Thursdays when its seventh season launches in January. Bee is one of the most high-profile women in late-night alongside the likes of…

EXCLUSIVE: The Television Academy's decision to merge the late-night and sketch series categories at this year's Emmy Awards is coming under fresh fire as networks and showrunners have joined forces to lobby for a reversal of the changes. Deadline understands that broadcast networks including ABC, CBS and NBC as well…

2020 has been an incredibly tough year but the world of late-night has been both a constant source of entertainment for viewers and a shining case study for how to make television during a global pandemic. The genre has proved tenacious, resilient and funny in the face of a devastating health crisis, adapting to…

TBS has renewed Full Frontal with Samantha Bee for a sixth season and renewed its first-look deal with host Bee. The weekly show will return at 10:30 p.m. January 13 at 10:30pm on the WarnerMedia network. Separately, TBS has renewed its first-look deal with Bee's production company, Swimsuit Competition. The series is…

Lorne Michaels, who is the most nominated individual in Emmy history, may find his chances of winning an award in 2021 a little tougher after the Television Academy introduced a swathe of changes to the rules. The Saturday Night Live creator will now see his weekly NBC sketch series go head-to-head for nominations…