Lionsgate’s Debmar-Mercury has announced it will move forward with its national launch of daytime talker “Nick Cannon” next fall, with the Fox Television Stations as the anchor group for the New York-based weekday talker, produced and distributed by the company. Originally slated to launch this fall, the distributor delayed the start following the anti-Semitic remarks the […]
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Lionsgate’s Debmar-Mercury and record-breaking producer Will Packer (“Night School,” “Girls Trip”) will bring back the nationally syndicated, multicultural, investigative entertainment and pop culture magazine show “Central Ave” for the full 2020-21 season on Saturday, September 26, with two original weekly half-hour episodes. Following a limited run last year, the half-hour series will air in 210 markets including on Fox Television Stations, Sinclair, CBS […]
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Following its historical 7 for 7 Emmy winning sweep on Sunday, Canadian sitcom “Schitt’s Creek” will launch into national syndication across the country starting on Monday, Sept. 28. Lionsgate’s Debmar-Mercury owns the domestic broadcast rights to the series, which produced 80 half-hour episodes in total. Debmar-Mercury announced last fall, but the timing of the syndicated launch could not […]
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The daytime syndicated talk show hosted by Nick Cannon that was set to premiere in the fall on stations in more than 90 percent of the country has now been pushed back a year, following his recent anti-Sematic comments made on his podcast. Producer Lionsgate and its syndication subsidiary Debmar-Mercury said in a statement on Friday: “After […]
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Upcoming daytime talk show “Nick Cannon” from Lionsgate’s Debmar-Mercury will debut on Monday, September 21 in more than 90 percent of the country. Represented station groups include FOX, CBS, Sinclair, Hearst, Nexstar, Mission, COX, Sunbeam, Capitol, Meredith, Tegna, Lockwood, Gray and CW Plus. The logline: Co-produced by Debmar-Mercury and Cannon’s production company, Ncredible Entertainment, the […]
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Following the recent test-run, Fox Television Stations, Lionsgate’s Debmar-Mercury and producer Will Packer (“Girls Trip”) are teaming up to bring back pop culture-themed newsmagazine “Central Ave” next September. The series, hosted by Julissa Bermudez (“106 & Park”) and former Olympic track star Sanya Richards-Ross, will be air as two weekly half-hour episodes in first-run syndication. […]
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Current “The Masked Singer” host Nick Cannon is stepping into the crowed waters of syndicated talk. Fox Television Stations will serve as the launch group for Cannon’s untitled show, which comes from Lionsgate’s Debmar-Mercury. The show, targeted for fall 2020, will air twice daily on Fox-owned affiliates in some of the country’s biggest markets, including […]
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Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer, whose six-month stint in the job working for President Trump ended last summer, is developing a syndicated daytime talk show from distributor Debmar-Mercury and Pilgrim Media Group. Tentatively titled “Sean Spicer’s Common Ground,” the potential daily talker will feature Spicer hosting “some of the most interesting and thoughtful public […]
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Distributor Debmar-Mercury from Lionsgate has acquired the U.S. broadcast syndication rights to “Schitt’s Creek,” the Canadian half-hour, single-camera scripted comedy currently airing on Pop TV. The series, created by Eugene Levy and Daniel Levy, follows a wealthy family who suddenly find themselves broke and forced to live in Schitt’s Creek, a small town they once […]