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Kenan Thompson’s morning show gig is up. NBC has canceled Kenan, the single-camera comedy led by the SNL star, after two seasons. Cancellations Photo Gallery: The TV Series Ending In 2022 & Beyond The comedy follows a widowed dad, played by Thompson, who's juggling a high-profile job as the host of an Atlanta morning…

ABC and Fox led the pack Monday night in primetime as The Bachelor and 9-1-1: Lone Star returned for new episodes. Fresh off their premieres last week, The Bachelor and Lone Star were respectively the night’s highest-rated and most-watched programs. The Bachelor topped the demo, earning a 0.7 in adults 18-49 and 3.07…

NBC is out with its midseason schedule, which features an all-Law & Order Thursday and a rare Monday comedy block comprising back-to-back episodes from the sophomore season of Kenan.  The lineup also includes the sixth and final season of This Is Us, which will debut January 4; new seasons of Young Rock and Mr. Mayor…

NBC will air original episodes of all five of its comedy series — returning shows Young Rock, Kenan and Mr. Mayor – and new series Grand Crew and American Auto — during the week of December 13, ahead of their regular 2022 season premieres. The standalone holiday specials were initially announced in May before Grand Cre…

EXCLUSIVE: Hayley Marie Norman has joined the cast of NBC’s Kenan for Season 2 in a recurring role. Norman will portray the character of Janay, a new force in Kenan’s (Kenan Thompson) life. She is described as funny, beautiful, fierce, loving, and determined to get what she wants. Janay comes into Gary's (Chris Redd)…

In 2003, Kenan Thompson, at age 25, became the youngest cast member of Saturday Night Live — in fact he wasn’t even born when the show went on the air in 1975. Now celebrating his 18th season as a regular cast member, he is the longest-running star of SNL ever. Thus it seems appropriate that among his two Emmy…

Kenan Thompson is a pretty busy guy. In addition to starring on Saturday Night Live and fronting and exec producing his own eponymous sitcom for NBC, Thompson exec produces Nickelodeon's reboot of the sketch comedy All That. He would also like to do more of the latter. Thompson, speaking to his old SNL pal Seth Meyers…

Kenan Thompson, who plays Kenan Williams in his eponymous NBC comedy, says that romance levels are set to ramp up now that the series has been renewed for Season 2. Thompson, speaking during the show’s panel at Deadline's Contenders Television awards-season event, said to expect more between the relationship between…

Amid declining linear ratings, holiday programming has been one area where viewers had continued to flock to ad-supported networks, bringing in a significant chunk of those nets’ annual ad revenue. As a result, holiday fare has exploded, expanding to a month — or longer — on basic cable networks such as Hallmark…

NBC is staying in business with Dwayne Johnson and Kenan Thompson. The network has renewed comedies Young Rock and Kenan for second seasons. It marks the latest comedy renewals at the broadcaster, having ordered a second season of Mr. Mayor last month. NBC said Young Rock, which debuted in February, is the No. 2 new…

Chance the Rapper had nothing but love for Kenan star and Emmy-nominated Saturday Night Live icon Kenan Thompson at SXSW. Referring to him as the G.O.A.T. (as it should be), Chance had a nice Inside The Actors Studio-esque talk with Thompson about his career, his new NBC series, his historic 18-season run on SNL as…

NBC topped the broadcast ratings Monday in primetime with two series premieres and its drama kingpin This Is Us. The network’s night started with the Dwayne Johnson family comedy Young Rock, which debuted strong with a 0.9 in the adults 18-49 demographic and 5.03 million viewers tuning in to smell what The Rock was…