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After a successful test run last summer, Pictionary, a syndicated series based on Mattel’s party game, will get a full season on Fox Television Stations starting in fall 2022. Jerry O’Connell is the host of the 30-minute show, which largely follows the rules of the game, which first went on sale in 1985. Two teams of…

Daytime talk show Tamron Hall has been renewed for two seasons, through 2024, by the ABC Owned Television Stations Group. The nationally syndicated show is in the middle of its third season. It airs in New York, LA, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Houston, Raleigh-Durham and Fresno and is syndicated by Disney…

ViacomCBS announced today a new multi-year distribution agreement with the Jeanie Buss-owned WOW – Women Of Wrestling, marking the return of the league to TV. WOW had been on AXS TV from 2019-2020. New episodes of WOW will launch in weekend syndication in the fall of 2022. ViacomCBS Global Distribution Group has…

Fox Television Stations has renewed syndicated mainstays 25 Words or Less, Divorce Court and Dish Nation through the 2022-2023 season. In announcing the two-year renewals, Fox stations programming chief Stephen Brown said the company sees “nothing but growth ahead” for the slate of what he called “reliably strong…

EXCLUSIVE: Sherri Shepherd, longtime former co-host of The View, is set to join Fox syndicated series Dish Nation as co-host in August. She had served guest stints on the entertainment show in November and December of 2019. “Dish Nation has been a household staple as my guilty pleasure for years,” the actress and…

Sony Pictures Television’s The Mel Robbins Show, an inspiration-focused talk show, will end its run after the end of its first season. The plan is for production and episode delivery to continue through September, the company said. "Mel has had a positive impact on millions of daytime viewers and we still strongly…

Sinclair Broadcast Group marked marked Tuesday’s one-year anniversary of STIRR, its ad-supported streaming service, by announcing plans to launch a new channel dedicated to live 2020 election events. The company also said STIRR has attracted more than 1.6 million app downloads during its first year. Sinclair, the No…

The 57th annual NATPE conference — the 10th edition held in Miami — will unfold January 21 to 23 with the syndication business experiencing an upswing. While ratings are not what they used to be, renewals of major 2019 talk debuts for Kelly Clarkson and Tamron Hall have restored confidence in the sector’s core…

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…

Fox Television Stations is rolling out Fox Soul, a live, ad-supported streaming channel aimed at African-American viewers. The free channel will combine a set of new original programs with existing, locally produced Fox shows. In an announcement, the Fox Corp. division said Fox Soul will “aim to celebrate black…

Walt Disney Television is renewing syndicated talk show Tamron Hall for a second season, saying it has been cleared in more than 80% of the country. ABC Entertainment President Karey Burke made the announcement Thursday. Stations carrying the show include those in the ABC Owned Television Stations Group and Hearst…

EXCLUSIVE: As the $71.3 billion Disney-Fox deal nears the finish line, there is a steady earner that often gets overlooked among the assets that will remain behind as part of Fox Corp.: MyNetworkTV. The programming service, launched with fanfare in 2006 as a bid to counter the emerging CW, had to regroup not long…