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Adult Swim Acquires Off-Network Rights To ‘Bob’s Burgers’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday May 1, 2013 @ 9:59am PDTTags: Adult Swim, Bob's Burgers, Twentieth Television
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Adult Swim has closed a deal with Twentieth Television for exclusive off-network cable rights to 20th Century Fox TV’s animated comedy series Bob’s Burgers, now in its third season on Fox and renewed for a fourth. The deal includes Seasons 1-3 of Bob’s Burgers, which will begin airing on Adult Swim this summer. I hear the license fee is just shy of $500,000 an episode, in line with what TBS and Adult Swim paid for Twentieth TV’s animated comedy The Cleveland Show in 2010. In addition to Cleveland, Bob’s Burgers will join two other current/former Fox animated comedies on Adult Swim, Family Guy and King Of The Hill.

While not a breakout for Fox, Bob’s Burgers has been an OK ratings performer and quickly has achieved cult status. It also has been well received by critics and landed an Emmy nomination for best animated program last year. The timing of the show’s rollout on Adult Swim, ahead of the broadcast fall launch, could give it a boost on Fox as many series experience a ratings resurgence as a result of additional exposure on cable. READ MORE »

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Kris Jenner’s Syndicated Talk Show Gets Premiere Date, Executive Producer

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday April 18, 2013 @ 11:51am PDTTags: Kris, Kris Jenner, Robert Lifton, Twentieth Television
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Twentieth Television today announced that Robert Lifton has been named executive producer of Kris. The new pop cuture-driven daytime talk show, hosted and executive produced by Kardashian matriarch Kris Jenner, will premiere on Monday, … Read More »

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NATPE: Twentieth TV’s ‘Dish Nation’ Renewed For Second Season

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday January 28, 2013 @ 6:52am PSTTags: NATPE, Twentieth Television
Nellie Andreeva

Twentieth TV-disrtributed freshman syndie strip Dish Nation has been has been renewed on the Fox Television Stations as well as  on Sinclair, Tribune, Cox, Meredith, Local TV and Lin stations. The announcement was made on Day … Read More »

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Kris Jenner In Talks For Twentieth Daytime Talk Show Eying Test Run On Fox Stations

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday October 9, 2012 @ 10:44am PDTTags: Big Deals TV, Keeping Up With The Kardashians, Kris Jenner, Twentieth Television
Nellie Andreeva

Kris Jenner Talk Show FoxEXCLUSIVE: Kardashian matriarch Kris Jenner, the first lady of reality television, is eying a move into daytime. I’ve learned that Jenner is in talks with Twentieth Television to host a daytime talk show. Discussions are also underway for a test run of the show on the Fox TV Stations as early as this summer. There had been speculation that Jenner, who has built a TV empire with the Keeping Up With The Kardashians franchise, is looking to launch her own talk show. Last year, she served as a fill-in host on The Talk and the fourth hour of Today. Meanwhile, the six-week test run on the Fox stations has become increasingly popular as it has spawned two series to go to national syndication: Wendy Williams and Bethenny. “Everyone wants to do a test with the Fox TV stations,” a spokesperson for the stations said, declining further comment. Read More »

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Twentieth TV Ups Stephen Brown To EVP Programming And Development

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday September 6, 2012 @ 10:09am PDTTags: Twentieth Television

Stephen Brown was SVP Programming and Development and helped develop Twentieth Television‘s The Ricki Lake Show and Dish Nation, two shows set for fall launches. Now he has been promoted to EVP, where he will continue to oversee the company’s … Read More »

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Celebrity News Program To Get Trial Run On Fox Stations

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday June 9, 2011 @ 10:29am PDTTags: TV syndication, Twentieth Television
Nellie Andreeva

Twentieth Television will be testing another potential first-run syndication program on the Fox Television Stations. Dish Nation, a half-hour pop culture/celebrity news program in the vein of TMZ, will debut July 25 for a six-week trial run on Fox stations … Read More »

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Why Is 20th TV Doing Ricki Lake Talk Show?

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Wednesday April 20, 2011 @ 2:13pm PDTTags: Twentieth Television

Jeez, will the proliferation of unnecessary talk shows never cease? Isn’t Ricki Lake so 1990s? (Her last talker debuted in syndication on September 13, 1993 and ended first-run episodes on May 25, 2004.) Isn’t she in the witness protection program? So I gotta ask, why????

NEW YORK — Twentieth Television announced today a development deal with Ricki Lake; for a possible fall 2012 launch of a new syndicated talk show. The deal will focus on developing an hour-long program, which would mark Ricki’s return to syndicated television. The program will be based in Los Angeles, CA and will present topical conversation reflecting Ricki’s own personal journey and recent life experiences. As her fans have grown up with Ricki, a combination of relevant themes personal to the host and her audience including family, marriage, parenting, divorce, weight loss and overall well-being are being explored for the program.

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‘Modern Family’ Cleared in 50% Of The Country For Syndication Launch

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday January 5, 2011 @ 11:40am PSTTags: Modern Family, TV, TV Deals, Twentieth Television
Nellie Andreeva

In October, Twentieth Television sold Modern Family to the Fox Stations, which will be the backbone of the show’s launch in broadcast syndication in fall 2013. Now Twentieth announced more deals for the show in a total of 33 markets, increasing … Read More »

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‘Modern Family’ Sold To Fox Stations In Broadcast Syndication

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday October 18, 2010 @ 11:55am PDTTags: Fox TV Stations, Modern Family, TV, TV Deals, Twentieth Television
Nellie Andreeva

Fox TV Stations have inked a deal with corporate sibling Twentieth Television for the broadcast syndication rights to the Emmy-Award winning comedy Modern Family. The ABC comedy, produced by 20th TV, has been sold to the Fox TV stations in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Washington, D.C., Houston, Minneapolis, Phoenix, Orlando and Baltimore … Read More »

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