Glimmer

Rachel Maddow taking a break from her break to anchor tonight’s Ukraine coverage

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2021-12-18/what-is-a-bidding-war-cbs-and-nbc-are-chasing-jeopardy-for-their-tv-stations Interesting LA Times piece about how the NBC and CBS O&Os are expected to make a play for the Jeopardy! and Wheel rights when they’re up after next season.

Makes me wonder if Fox will develop another game show for fall ‘23 and go for a full block with 25 Words/YBYL/Pictionary/4th game

https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/cbs-to-motor-news-department-back-into-detroit-launching-local-broadcasts-on-wwj-tv-after-20-years-1235133071/ Expected to launch late-summer 2022 with a 24/7 streaming news outlet, CBS News Detroit, that will simulcast their newscasts on WWJ and possibly also WKBD.

Chris Jansing anchoring tonight's first BriWi-free 11th Hour

Pictionary picked up by the Fox O&Os for next fall after this past summer’s test run

WNYW is also dropping Dr. Oz

Tamron Hall has received a two-season renewal on the ABC O&Os

Warner Bros shopping new talk show with Jennifer Hudson for next fall I could actually see some of the larger Ellen groups (NBC O&Os, Hearst, etc) going for this

It's very clear to me the problem isn't Norah; it's the nature of the evening news and CBS's position in it. They're always going to be third place no matter who they put in that chair.

I imagine it’ll end up being a split evening shift between Ramon and Kleist once the 4pm newscast launches.

CBS Media Ventures syndicating WOW: Women of Wrestling to CBS-owned and Sinclair stations next fall

Give it six months and they probably will be

Newsy announces their on-air team and program lineup

Wendy Williams has contracted COVID, delaying the season premiere until October

I honestly found it kinda unwatchable and rushed all the way through.

Big shifts on WVTV and WVTV-DT2 starting 9/27: The evening edition of The National Desk premieres at 9pm on WVTV, shifting their block of The Goldbergs/Last Man Standing/The King of Queens to DT2 at different times: The Goldbergs at 5pm (moving Judge Jerry to 12pm), Last Man Standing at 6pm (causing Two and a Half Men to move to 9pm) and The King of Queens to 10pm (which moves the animation block to midnight, following former 9pm occupant Schitt’s Creek at 11pm). And if that wasn’t enough for DT2, Divorce Court will be down to a single airing at 10:30am. Following The National Desk, DailyMail TV and Dish Nation are now on (much) earlier times of 11pm and midnight, respectively. An encore of Access Daily follows at 12:30am.

So WITI will entirely be in local news from 4:30am-12pm…interesting!

Dr. Oz moves to KDFI at 3pm

The Milwaukee shifts…. WITI: You Bet Your Life premieres 9/13 at 10:35pm (pushing the 2xSeinfeld/Extra/Access Hollywood block back a half-hour); the second run of the show replaces an Extra encore at 2:35am Interestingly, they’re sticking with the Judge Judy encores at noon and 3pm/3:30pm for the time being WISN and WTMJ: no changes at the moment WDJT: on weekend late-nights, NCIS, NCIS: New Orleans and one run of The Andy Griffith Show are replaced by Bull, S.W.A.T. and SEAL Team starting 9/18 and 9/19 WVTV: Chicago Fire replaces The CW run of Jerry Springer at 1pm beginning 9/20 WMLW: MacGyver premieres 9/18 with a double run starting at 10am A third run of The Big Bang Theory is added at 4:30pm starting 9/13, which will serve as the lead-in to Young Sheldon when it launches 9/27. This triggers a lot of shifts to the usual evening/late-night comedy blocks (Modern Family’s hour block shifts up a half-hour to 3:30pm, Black-ish moves back an hour to 11pm when SVU starts 9/20 at 10pm, Mom is cut to a single weekday run at 3pm, still no word where Mike & Molly lands after YS takes its slot on 9/27)

in addition to these moves, Joshua Johnson is leaving his weekend show and moving to NBC News Now, where he’ll host a daily early-evening show as well as contribute to Sunday Today and Nightly News

Well, Jane’s been working off a green-screen since the pandemic so maybe they’re retrofitting their set into TSS?

CBS confirms new format, name for CBS Mornings From the article: Starting September 7, the entire CBS morning schedule will be treated as a larger franchise, with weekdays and Saturdays featuring some of the in-depth and longform features for which the Sunday show — a TV-news institution — is best known. Even the popular trumpet fanfare that greets viewers of “Sunday Morning” will find its way to its counterparts. “There is a real affection for that program,” says Khemlani. CBS is counting on the sound of that horn to lure new viewers in an era when doing so has become a tougher task. “We are essentially building a franchise that is seven days a week,” he adds.

WDJT is launching weekend morning newscasts starting 9/18

ABC News is taking over production oversight on Tamron Hall