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SPOILERS AHEAD: The Covid-shortened Survivor Season 41 finale was packed with two tribal councils, two immunity challenges one and a fire-making tie-breaker. Oh, and the final five contestants were forced to relocate to a new island with minimal comfort just days before the finale. After an initial tribal council and…

Netflix's Cheer and VH1's RuPaul's Drag Race lead nominations with five apiece for the second annual Critics Choice Real TV Awards, which recognize excellence in nonfiction, unscripted and reality programming across broadcast, cable and streaming platforms. Organized by the Critics’ Choice Association and nonfiction…

The day the Would Health Organization declared the growing coronavirus outbreak a global pandemic, CBS and the producers of Survivor moved in to postpone production on the upcoming 41st season of the reality competition. "Due to concerns and uncertainty surrounding the spread of COVID-19 globally, CBS and the…

Viewers get to pick competitors for the next season of Survivor, CBS announced at the end of tonight’s broadcast, confirming speculation.  Already the network tried to put a different spin on the next season of its very long running reality series,  which will film this summer and air in the fall. Billed as a “second…

The other shoe has dropped — following Twentieth Television’s decision last week not to renew the Ricki Lake Show, CBS TV Distribution today said that its struggling freshman syndicated talker The Jeff Probst Show will not be retuning for the 2013-2014 season. Original episodes will continue to air through the end of…

EXCLUSIVE: Layoffs are always tough, especially when they come just before the holidays. That is what’s happening on struggling freshman syndicated talk show Jeff Probst where several staffers, including producers received pink slips today. I hear some or all of the layoffs came with a week notice, with Dec. 21 as the…

In its second outing, Katie Couric’s new syndicated talk show drew a 2.3 household rating/7 share in the metered markets, down 18% from its big series premiere. In women 25-54, Katie posted a 1 rating, down 38%. Even with the declines, it still led all freshman talkers and was outrated only by veterans Ellen (2.9/8 in…

UPDATE, 12 PM: The numbers for all of yesterday’s daytime syndicated talk shows are in. Not surprisingly, the 10th-season premiere of Ellen featuring guests Patrick Dempsey, Pink and the Fierce Five, came up on top with a 3.0 household rating/8 share in the metered markets, 50% time period improvement vs. last year…

Ray Richmond contributes to Deadline’s TV coverage. Survivor host and newlywed Jeff Probst will be add a new title to his resume: talk show host. His syndicated The Jeff Probst Show enters the chat fray on September 10, along with fellow newcomers Ricki Lake, Steve Harvey and Katie Couric. The Probst effort comes from…

Longtime TV executive Valerie Schaer has been hired as EVP Creative Affairs at NBCUniversal Domestic Television Distribution, where she will be responsible for development of original programming and oversee the division's current first-run programming. That includes new fall-bowing daytime shows Steve Harvey and Trish…

Survivor‘s Jeff Probst is moving forward with his sophomore feature directing effort, Kiss Me. It begins shooting next month in Los Angeles, CNN reports. Already set to star in the coming-of-age story about a girl going “through the physical and emotional growing pains of her teen years” are John Corbett (Sex And The C…

Amy Coleman, formerly supervising producer of The Oprah Winfrey Show, has been hired as executive producer of the upcoming syndicated talk show Jeff Probst. CBS Television Distribution’s new first-run talker starring the Survivor host, already cleared in 80% of the country, is set to debut in the fall. Coleman spent…