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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…

Fox cut a significant figure at this year’s just-concluded NATPE, promoting its forthcoming Meredith Vieira-hosted game show, 25 Words or Less, and getting its messages out on multiple executive panels. The activity level is not a radical departure from past years, but the Miami conference offered the industry one of…

This year’s NATPE conference in Miami, which runs today through Thursday, follows the release this month of Relatable, the first Ellen DeGeneres stand-up special since 2003. In her Netflix special, DeGeneres expresses ambivalence about being better known as a daytime talk show host than a practitioner of stand-up, her…

Lionsgate's Debmar-Mercury has acquired U.S. broadcast syndication rights to Schitt's Creek, the single-camera comedy that is the top-rated original show on Pop, the cable network co-owned by Lionsgate and CBS. The series, created by Eugene Levy and Daniel Levy, stars Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Chris Elliott…