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TV Land has renewed The Soul Man for a 12-episode fifth season, which will be the Hot In Cleveland spinoff’s last. With Hot In Cleveland recently ending its run and Soul Man getting an end date, The Exes remains the only original multi-camera sitcom on TV Land as the network has been going through a brand…

Comedy veterans Bill Martin and Mike Schiff (Grounded For Life) will serve as executive producers/showrunners of the upcoming fourth season of TV Land’s sitcom The Soul Man starring Cedric The Entertainer and Niecy Nash. For the past two seasons, the series was run by Ric Swartzlander. In casting news, former View…

TV Land has handed a fourth-season renewal to multi-camera comedy The Soul Man, starring Cedric The Entertainer and Niecy Nash, for a 2015 premiere. The order is for 12 episodes, matching the series’ freshman season after a 10-episode second cycle and an 8-episode third. Like it was the case with the show’s previous…

Remember when George Burns and Gracie Allen used to plug Carnation Evaporated Milk in live TV ads during their 1950s TV series The George Burns And Gracie Allen Show? Of course you don’t! But live ads using show cast members, in character and on set, did not used to be “news” — much less a scoop in the New York Times…

Here’s a case of Viacom siblings playing nice. When the third-season premiere of The Soul Man airs live March 26 on TV Land, sister channels BET and Centric will simulcast it. After that, Centric will run new episodes of the Hot In Cleveland spinoff on Saturdays, 10 days after they bow on TV Land. The live season…

Betty White and Cedric the Entertainer will appear on both shows when the sitcoms return with back-to-back episodes on March 26. The Season 5 opener will mark the second consecutive live premiere for Hot In Cleveland, in which White stars with Valerie Bertinelli, Wendie Malick and Jane Leeves. It’ll be followed by the…

EXCLUSIVE: TV Land‘s The Soul Man will return for a third season. The network has given the 8-episode order more than three months after Season 2 of the show, starring Cedric "The Entertainer," Niecy Nash and Wesley Jonathan, ended its run. Comedy veteran Ric Swartzlander (Cougar Town), who quietly joined the show at…

EXCLUSIVE: TV Land has closed the deal for a second season pickup of The Soul Man starring Cedric "The Entertainer" and Niecy Nash and has ordered a third season of The Exes. As part of The Soul Man renewal, the Hot In Cleveland spinoff is changing showrunners, with Yvette Lee Bowser (Living Single) replacing Phoef…

UPDATE THURSDAY 11:50 AM: It’s not quite there yet, but TV Land is working on a renewal for freshman comedy The Soul Man. Pickup chatter started two days ago when star Cedric the Entertainer tweeted that the show has been renewed. "We are looking forward to sharing good news about the second season of The Soul Man…

Two new cable comedy series, ABC Family's Baby Daddy and TV Land’s The Soul Man opened solidly last night. Baby Daddy at 8:30 PM drew 1.7 million viewers and ranked as ABC Family’s No.2 comedy premiere in Total Viewers and all key demos, including Adults 18-34 (619,000) and Adults 18-49 (935,000). It built onto its Mel…

For the first time since the launch of the network 16 years ago, TV Land is changing its look with the introduction of a new logo. Additionally, the network is adding a second night of original sitcoms to the schedule this summer. The two are related — the old logo with a classic TV screen and retro style symbolized…