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EXCLUSIVE: Sophie von Haselberg (Halston), Colton Haynes (Arrow), Javier Muñoz (Broadway’s Hamilton), Jill Kargman (Odd Mom Out) and Marisa Ryan (Wet Hot American Summer) have signed on to star in Love…Reconsidered, an indie comedy, which is currently in production in New York.

Selome Hailu editorTBS announced that “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee” has been renewed for a seventh season. The network also renewed its first look deal with Bee’s production company Swimsuit Competition, which aims to develop original content while discovering new talent.Bee’s late night talk show will move from its current Wednesday slot to Thursday nights in Jan.

EXCLUSIVE: Full Frontal with Samantha Bee will be back on TBS in 2022 after the network renewed the late-night series for a seventh season.

A majority of late-night hosts are to dedicate a night to tackling climate change.

Samantha Bee discusses the coronavirus pandemic, her dream guests, and more in a new interview with WSJ. Magazine.

Full Frontal with Samantha Bee’s Emmy campaign appears to have been pretty prescient.

Conan has crashed the late-night Emmy party after scoring a nomination in the Outstanding Variety Talk Series category following his exit from the medium after 28 years.

Whatever the future hold for Jason Kilar, the current WarnerMedia CEO wasn’t about to let what is surely his last Upfronts pass him by.

Full Frontal with Samantha Bee. Her beauty and ? Not so much, which truthfully is a damn shame. When calls me from her home in Los Angeles, she is clearly prepared and ready to talk shop.

Samantha Bee is slamming Republican legislators in the U.S. after more than 30 states introduced transphobic sports-related bills that would ban transgender students from playing against cisgender athletes.

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorA little over three years ago, the partners at Jax Media took a big gamble.The New York indie production banner had prospered through its artisanal approach to producing TV series for such multi-hyphenate stars as Samantha Bee, Amy Schumer, Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer, as well as its ability to execute high-gloss scripted series including “Younger” and “Search Party” on modest budgets.Jax’s commercial success and creative sensibilities attracted the attention

EXCLUSIVE: The mysterious world of billionaire girlbosses and tastemakers in Lauren Hankin’s A Special Place for Women is coming to television.

Like many who professionally straddle the line between comedy and journalism, Samantha Bee’s been quite distracted for the last five years. Even with weekly outlet Full Frontal, she and her team passed over story after story as the Trump presidency and then the pandemic hijacked their collective bandwidth.

Ethan Shanfeld “We need to get extremely brave,” said Jane Fonda, the legendary actor who has spent her 80s fighting for climate change reform.At the EMILY’s List fourth annual pre-Oscars event on Tuesday, “The First but Not the Last,” Fonda gathered virtually with Regina King, Lucy Liu, Samantha Bee and New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham on a panel moderated by Zerlina Maxwell.

Samantha Bee spent a lot of her career fighting to get to where she is now.

In the latest edition of “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee”, host Samantha Bee takes on the nutty QAnon conspiracy theory, discussing why it’s becoming driven by an unexpected demographic: suburban white women.

The Television Academy is reversing an earlier decision that would have combined the Variety Talk and Variety Sketch categories into a single all-encompassing category, that would see a show such as “Saturday Night Live” compete with the likes of “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” or “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee”.

Samantha Bee makes her first appearance on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” Friday via video chat.

Samantha Bee is ready to say goodbye to Donald Trump.

Like many festivals, South by Southwest (SXSW) is going online this year, which is a seamless transition considering the Austin-based festival has always included a large digital component. SXSW Online, which takes place March 16-20, has unveiled its initial wave of Featured Speakers and over 230 conference sessions and this includes music legend Willie Nelson as Keynote.

TBS has renewed Full Frontal with Samantha Bee for a sixth season and renewed its first-look deal with host Bee.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorMusician and actor Ludacris will visit “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee” this week as part of the talk-and-satire show’s focus on Georgia.Ludacris, who spent time growing up in Atlanta and attended Georgia State University, will appear in a segment to talk about his new charity, Kid Nation, which aims to educate with videos of children rapping positive pieces of advice.

“Full Frontal” host Samantha Bee has praised Justice Democrats, a far-left group aligned with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., who she said “really freak the f—k out of Republicans." Bee spoke Thursday with Jamaal Bowman, a former middle school principal who was elected to the House of Representatives from New York’s 16th Congressional District last week.

We’re not worthy.

Samantha Bee channeled Mike Myers’ “Saturday Night Live” character in a “Wayne’s World” sketch that imagined alternate endings to Election 2020’s presidential race. She had Juliana Hatfield serve as the basement band in the scene, which aired on  Wednesday’s “Full Frontal With Samantha Bee.” In the first scenario, Bee’s Wayne Campbell is shaken by the news that Donald Trump won re-election in a landslide and the GOP took control of both the Senate and the House.

Peter White Television EditorLate-night hosts including Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, Conan O’Brien, Trevor Noah and Samantha Bee all urged patience as the ballot-counting process continues.While they were all talking earlier today, ranging between 11am to 5pm, the message remains as voters wait for ballots to be counted in key states including Arizona, Nevada, Georgia and Pennsylvania.The Tonight Show’s Jimmy Fallon said today felt like “waking up with a hangover and

Peter White Television EditorAs the battle between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden continues, and may well continue for days, the likes of Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, James Corden, Trevor Noah, Conan O’Brien and Samantha Bee will return to relatively normal filming schedules to discuss the election.However, writing jokes and speaking to guests, including political folks such as Cory Booker, Shepard Smith and Steve Kornacki, this afternoon

In 2016, Samantha Bee's first-season TBS series Full Frontal had episodes on either side of Election Day, and, going off of the majority of polls suggesting Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton would win, the show's staff prepared an episode for Nov. 9 celebrating the end of a divisive presidential contest and the election of the country's first female president.

HBO is teaming up with Rock the Vote— and enlisting talent including Spike Lee, Samantha Bee and Jay Ellis— to encourage Americans to share why they're voting in the 2020 fall elections.

Alexandra Del Rosario Associate Editor/Nights & WeekendsFor those who didn’t walk away with Emmys on Sunday night, the Television Academy offered another treasure nominees could enjoy at home.

Peter White Television EditorLast Week Tonight with John Oliver continued its dominance in the Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series category.The HBO comedy show beat TBS’ Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, NBC’s Late Night With Seth Meyers, CBS’ Late Show with Stephen Colbert to win the award for the fifth year in a row.The British comedian accepted the award on behalf of his team using one of his son’s “creepy” toys in lieu of an actual Emmy.“I’d like to thank my writers, obviously, who work

Samantha Bee took a jab at the more than $4 trillion global wellness industry, specifically denouncing Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop brand.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: ABC has put in development Big Wishes, a half-hour single camera comedy from Full Frontal with Samantha Bee co-head writer Kristen Bartlett, director James Griffiths and his Fee-Fi-Fo Films, 2 Dope Queens co-creator Phoebe Robinson and ABC Signature, where Griffiths is under a deal.Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series ordersWritten by Bartlett and directed by Griffiths, in Big Wishes, plenty of charities make wishes come true for

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorSamantha Bee is on a Zoom call from her home on the East Coast, where she’s been shooting her hit Comedy Central political talk show “Full Frontal With Samantha Bee.”“This room is awful,” she says, looking back at a dimly lit room with not much furniture in sight. “It’s my guest room.

Also Read: Samantha Bee Says the Worst Part of Making Her Show at Home Is Staring Into Her Husband's EyesBee said the show’s studio space, which is housed in a large building in New York, would be “a little more difficult” to return to “because we can’t really control the comings and goings.”Bee has been shooting her show outdoors with the assistance of her husband Jason Jones since the start of the pandemic, a decision she attributed to the natural light.

Peter White Television EditorMany of the late-night shows have started to return to the studio following the COVID-19 production shutdown.However, Samantha Bee outlined her show’s own challenges with returning to its New York studio.TBS’ Full Frontal With Samantha Bee shoots in the CBS Broadcast Center on West 57th Street in New York – the same studio that HBO’s Last Week Tonight and Showtime’s Desus & Mero shoot in.Since March, the show has been filming from Bee’s house in the woods in upstate