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As part of the broad WarnerMedia restructuring announced by CEO Jason Kilar, Warner Bros Television Group chairman Peter Roth is consolidating the studio's scripted and unscripted television production operations. On the unscripted side, the studio’s efforts will continue to be led by Warner Bros Unscripted…

The Ellen DeGeneres Show has opted to suspend production due to the ongoing coronavirus threat. DeGeneres revealed the news via Twitter Friday. “Hey there. Me again. So, after some more thought, we have decided to suspend production completely until March 30th. We just want to take every precaution to ensure that we…

RuPaul is heading to daytime TV. The Emmy-winning host of RuPaul’s Drag Race is shooting a talk show pilot for Telepictures, the syndication production arm of Warner Bros., Deadline has confirmed. The show will feature RuPaul bringing his positive, fun, energetically unique point of view as he interviews celebrities…

EXCLUSIVE: Telepictures, which is behind the hugely successful Ellen DeGeneres talk show, is looking to bring another funny lady to daytime. I have learned that Warner Bros.’ syndication production arm is developing a new daytime format for Jane Lynch. Details about the project are still sketchy as it is in early…

Now this is a story all about how a life got twisted upside down. Well, not really, but a star of ’90s sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air claims in a new lawsuit that Warner Bros and Telepictures swiped her idea for the daytime talk show The Real. Tatyana Ali says she came up with the concept for the show and…

Heads Up!, originally a game Ellen DeGeneres played with her talk show’s audience and later turned into a hot-selling mobile app, is taking the next logical step, becoming a game show on HLN. The series from Telepictures will launch in Q1 of next year with 65 episodes airing Monday through Friday. Loni Love, already…

After 14 years as host of The Suze Orman Show on CNBC, the Emmy winner and personal finance expert is leaving the network in March and moving on to the next leg of her TV career. Orman is developing Suze Orman’s Money Wars from Warner Bros TV Group’s Telepictures, to air five days a week. The show will focus on…

The hosts of the Warner Bros TV Distribution/Telepictures’ daytime syndie series The Real were out to make a point that their girl talk show is completely different from ABC’s The View, simply because it’s, well — real —  as they emphasized continually throughout their TCA panel.  From the sizzle reel for the show, it…

The move to Telepictures comes about eight months after Donna Redier Linsk exited FremantleMedia North America as COO and reunites her with Mike Darnell, President, Warner Bros. Unscripted and Alternative Television, to whom she will directly report. The two previously worked together at Fox when Darnell oversaw…

Two months into it freshman run, Anderson Cooper’s daily syndicated talk show has been renewed for a second season. The show’s core station group, Fox TV Stations, has renewed the Telepictures-produced show on its stations in Los Angeles (KTTV-TV), Chicago (WFLD-TV) and Boston (WFXT-TV), and has picked up the series…

Telepictures’ new syndicated talk show Anderson had a rough start yesterday, drawing a 1.1 household rating, 0.6 in women 25-54. However, the talker starring Anderson Cooper faced CBS Sports’ coverage of the U.S. Open men’s tennis final in several major markets, including New York, San Francisco, and Boston. Facing…

After six years at NBCUniversal’s Access Hollywood, Maria Menounos has signed a multi-year deal with Time Warner’s Telepictures to serve as co-host of rival syndicated daily entertainment newsmagazine Extra alongside Mario Lopez. Additionally, she will have on-air duties for the company’s new Dr. Drew daytime show…