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Craig Ferguson will start broadcasting a weeknight talk show once again. Only this time he’ll be in primetime. And on satellite radio! Broadcast live from Los Angeles, in a studio SiriusXM built in Ferguson’s home, “The Craig Ferguson Show” will debut on Comedy Greats channel 94 starting Monday, Feb. 27, with …
Congrats to Guy Branum, whose live comedy showcase, Talk Show The Game Show, has been picked up as a TV series for truTV! You might have guessed good things were in the offing for Branum, since he appears already in the new truTV ad campaigns. At any rate, here’s the …
The abrupt series finale of HBO’s Any Given Wednesday weekly talk show hosted by Bill Simmons brought with it many jokes, thanks to his guests and longtime friends Jimmy Kimmel and Adam Carolla — who not only made fun of Simmons for waiting too long to invite them on his …
Comedy Central may no longer have the Emmy-winning Key & Peele, but the cable network will have Kasher and Leggero both on display in 2017. Comedy Central announced a series order today for Problematic with Moshe Kasher, a weekly talk show that will debut in 2017. Kasher’s wife, Natasha Leggero, …
Chris Hardwick will be Talking television with AMC’s audiences for years to come. The cable channel announced a new multiyear deal with Hardwick that extends his relationship with AMC — not only to host the Talking Dead, Talking Saul, Talking Preacher and other after-show series, but also to develop new …
Forget fire in the belly. Samantha Bee has something stirring in her “swamp.” Her word. Not mine. What already has set Bee and her weekly TBS series apart from the late-night talkers, variety hosts and satirists out there? Her passion. From standing front and center to face her audience instead …
Chelsea Handler announced details of her new talk show on Netflix today, with a handwritten letter explaining Handler will host three episodes per week — releasing on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays — starting May 11, 2016. She wrote in this note to self: Dear You, This is your new show …
Grace Parra has broken out as a star contributor and panelist for The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore since she joined the late-night Comedy Central talker in November 2015. But Parra thought she might just as well have enjoyed a career behind the scenes as a sitcom writer, or perhaps …
Chris Hardwick already has a new season of Talking Dead to look forward to on Sunday nights this winter and spring, and now AMC has added at least two more hours of live TV hosting duties for Hardwick — announcing two editions of Talking Saul to follow the season two …
AMC has aired five seasons and counting of Kevin Smith’s Comic Book Men, which follows the filmmaker and his friends as they geek out at his New Jersey comic-book store. Smith has podcasted for more than 300 episodes over nine years with his SModcast. So why not have Smith host …
