Drunk History just got some sobering news. Comedy Central has reversed course on plans for a seventh season of the Derek Waters series.
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Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TV“The Ren & Stimpy Show” is the most recent Viacom throwback getting a new life.Comedy Central announced Wednesday that it has ordered a revival of the ’90s animated series. The move comes amid a significant push into adult animation at ViacomCBS’ entertainment and youth group, which comprises most of the company’s cable brands and is headed by Chris McCarthy.
Drunk History just got some sobering news. Comedy Central has reversed course on plans for a seventh season of the Derek Waters series.
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The Daniel Tosh era at Comedy Central is coming to an end. In a shocking move, the ViacomCBS-owned cable network has reversed course on its January decision to renew the series for four more seasons.
Tosh.0 is coming to an end.
Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVViacomCBS has opened the door to working again with Nick Cannon, more than a month after the company severed ties with him over anti-Semitic comments the multi-hyphenate made on his podcast.Speaking at a town hall with employees Monday, Chris McCarthy, president of entertainment and youth brands at ViacomCBS, praised work that Canon claims to have done to make amends for his comments and gain a better understanding of why they were offensive.
Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorSyfy has set premiere dates for its first two TZGZ animated original series. Magical Girl Friendship Squad and Wild Life will premiere Saturday, September 26 with back-to-back episodes.
Joe Otterson TV Reporter“Tosh.0” will end its run on Comedy Central after its upcoming twelfth season.The cancellations comes despite the fact that Comedy Central picked the show up for four mores seasons back in January. Season 12 of the series, hosted by Daniel Tosh, is set to debut on Sept.
Peter White Television EditorTosh.0 has become the latest Comedy Central live-action series to come to an end as the ViacomCBS network makes a hard pivot to adult animation.The show, created and hosted by comedian Daniel Tosh, is to end after its upcoming 12th season.
Drunk History are crestfallen after it was revealed that the series is being cancelled after six seasons.The series, in which celebrities describe events from world history while inebriated, had been renewed for a seventh season last summer, but Deadline now reports that production has been abandoned for good.The website cites high production costs – with each episode featuring period reenactments of the described events – as a factor in its cancellation.Season six of Drunk History has been
Joe Otterson TV Reporter“Drunk History’s” sixth and most recent season will be the Comedy Central show’s last, Variety has confirmed.The show had been renewed for a seventh season last year and was in pre-production on that season when COVID-19 pandemic forced production to stop in March.
Anthony D'Alessandro, Nellie Andreeva EXCLUSIVE: It was revealed tonight during Deadline’s Emmy season virtual screening of Comedy Central’s Drunk History that the Derek Waters-Jeremy Konner series will not be moving forward with a seventh season, originally ordered last summer.Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series ordersThe series’ sixth — and now final — season, which wrapped its run on Aug.
Jake Kanter International TV EditorThe BBC’s youth streaming service BBC Three has acquired the first season of Comedy Central’s hit scripted comedy Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens.The 10-part series will land on BBC Three later this year and is headlined by Awkwafina, who stars in Crazy Rich Asians and won a Golden Globe in January for her role in The Farewell.The show is inspired by her real-life growing up in Queens, New York.
announced on social media on Thursday.The event, hosted this year by Keke Palmer, is already stacked with a wicked lineup, including The Weeknd, K-pop stars BTS, Doja Cat, J Balvin, Maluma and Roddy Ricch.
Also Read: How ViacomCBS Plans to Reinvent CBS All Access for the Streaming Era“These ground-breaking and hilarious programs are cultural touchstones and we are excited about the diverse group of comedic voices they will bring to HBO Max. We know our audiences will want to watch again and again,” said Michael Quigley, EVP Content Acquisitions, WarnerMedia.
LOS ANGELES -- The brazen humor of “The Ren & Stimpy Show” will be revisited in a new Comedy Central version of the animated series. The original program that was a hit for Nickelodeon will be reimagined in partnership with Nickelodeon Animation Studio, Comedy Central said Wednesday.
The Ren & Stimpy Show is being reimagined as an adult animation.Comedy Central has green-lit a new version of the ’90s children’s show for adult audiences as part of a major company push into adult animation.Deadline reports that the reboot will join the Beavis and Butt-Head remake from Mike Judge and Daria spin-off Jodie on the network.Nickelodeon launched the original The Ren & Stimpy Show alongside Rugrats and Doug in 1991.
Comedy Central announced that it is officially reviving the cult animated 1990s hit “Ren & Stimpy” under a new creative team. The network announced Wednesday that the Emmy-nominated cult hit will be added to its ever-expanding roster of adult-skewing animated shows alongside “South Park,” the upcoming “Daria” spinoff, “Jodie,” and the newly announced “Bevis and Butt-Head” and “Clone High” revivals.