Comedy Central weekly late nighter The President Show launches Thursday, April 27 at 11:30p, after The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. Donald Trump impersonator Anthony Atamanuik stars as POTUS, avoiding “the crooked media by hosting a late-night show direct from the Oval Office.”
Neil Patrick Harris will host and exec produce NBC game show Genius Junior, testing the smarts of 12 teams of kids. “The contestants are kids, so they’re destined to be hilarious or, you know, snap. Win/win,” said Harris. “I kid. #pun.” Shed Media is producing. Harris-hosted variety show Best Time Ever was canceled after one […]
America’s Next Top Model is eliminating the age limit for contestants. “There have been 23 cycles of America’s Next Top Model, and every single cycle we say you have to be 27 years old or younger,” said host and producer Tyra Banks in a video soliciting contestants. “You know what I hear all the time? […]
Former Dancing with the Stars pro Cheryl Burke has started filming for Lifetime’s Dance Moms. Burke replaces choreographer Abby Lee Miller, who announced via an angry Instagram post on Sunday that she’d quit the show after 7 seasons. Miller is awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty last year in a bankruptcy fraud case, but insisted it […]
CBS Entertainment president Glenn Geller is “on track for a full recovery” after suffering a mild heart attack, but is taking a leave of absence until the end of May. “Pilot season and the Upfront isn’t the best environment to achieve that recovery,” noted Geller in a note to staff. With CBS’s NYC May17 event […]
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah is opening a pop-up library of President Donald Trump’s tweets. The library, opening in New York City in June, “will be so tremendous that you’ll get tired of the tremendousness, so it will then close a few days later,” said Comedy Central in a press release. “Sad!”
ABC yanked freshman drama Time After Time from its slate after 5 episodes. The time travel show was averaging .5 among A18-49 and 2.2 million viewers. Taking its place for the next 3 Sundays at 9p will be Match Game.
Discovery Communications held an Upfront event in NYC on Tuesday, and it was good news all around. “As a company, we’re showing some tremendous growth and momentum,” said president and CEO David Zaslav. “Our channels have grown in a meaningful way, our channels are on brand, and we’re doing a great job monetizing our content […]
Amy Poehler and her Paper Kite Productions are delving into unscripted TV with The Handmade Project. The competition reality show, which has received a six-episode straight-to-series order by NBC, reunites Poehler with her former Parks and Recreation co-star Nick Offerman. Poehler and Offerman will host the series, which celebrates artisanship and the makers who can […]
Science Channel wooed Johnny Galecki (Big Bang Theory) to appear in and exec produce SciJinks (working title), scheduled to premiere in Q4 2017. Half-hour series will use cutting-edge science as the foundation for outrageous stunts and practical jokes, carried out by a Galecki-orchestrated team of inventive scientists drawing from chemistry, physics, technology, engineering and more. […]
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