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TBS Greenlights Seventh Season of Emmy-Award-Successful Late-Evening Collection “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee”

Discuss Present Strikes to Thursday Nights in January 2022

LOS ANGELES (September 23, 2021) – TBS introduced right this moment that it has renewed the Emmy Award-winning late-night discuss present, “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee” for a seventh season. Shifting to Thursday nights starting January 2022, “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee” stays a trailblazing pressure in late-night, persevering with to make use of political satire to entertain, educate, and empower viewers whereas holding the federal government in examine. “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee” continues to succeed in practically 2.9 million viewers per episode and at the moment boasts greater than 502 million YouTube views. Manufacturing on season seven will start early subsequent yr.
Moreover, TBS has renewed its first-look cope with Bee’s manufacturing firm, Swimsuit Competitors, for the event of its personal model of entertaining, binge-worthy unique content material. Swimsuit Competitors continues to give attention to discovering new expertise and giving help and publicity to their concepts.

“Shining a highlight on vital points and folks, Sam offers wanted commentary and asks questions of authority and ourselves that have to be requested,” stated Brett Weitz, Basic Supervisor TNT, TBS and truTV. “However most of all, Sam is simply humorous and makes me snort out loud every week. I’m thrilled she’s going to proceed to name TBS dwelling.”

“I’m past excited to be returning to TBS for a seventh season,” stated Samantha Bee, host of “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee”. “Now we’ve got sufficient seasons so that you can binge one each day of the week. I warned you I used to be tenacious.”

One among TIME’s 100 Most Influential Folks, Samantha Bee leads the cost by not solely shining a light-weight on problems with political and cultural significance by means of the present’s reporting, but additionally by implementing significant change by means of charitable initiatives throughout instances of disaster. “Full Frontal” launched the #MailedIt marketing campaign in help of the US Postal Service and it additionally obtained consideration for pioneering paid household depart by providing staffers essentially the most intensive coverage within the leisure business. The Emmy-winning present has continued to obtain recognition, most just lately successful the Writers Guild Award in February.

“Full Frontal with Samantha Bee” brings a novel perspective on tales contained in the Beltway and past, from sexual harassment within the media to the “boyfriend loophole,” and from international warming to baby marriage in the US. “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee” additionally travels the world to cowl worldwide tales, with segments from Rwanda, Jordan, Germany, Russia, Scotland, Mexico and Iraq. In its first six seasons, “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee” has garnered an Excellent Writing Emmy for its “Not the White Home Correspondents’ Dinner” particular honoring a free press, in addition to twenty-two Emmy nominations, six Tv Critics Affiliation Award nominations, 5 WGA nominations, two PGA nominations, 4 DGA nominations, three Critics’ Alternative Award nominations, and one nomination for the Environmental Media Affiliation Awards. The sequence is govt produced by Samantha Bee, Jason Jones, Tony Hernandez of Jax Media, Miles Kahn, Alison Camillo, Kristen Bartlett and Mike Drucker.

About TBS
TBS, a WarnerMedia model, is a top-rated vacation spot for tv amongst younger adults and recognized for escapist, good-time leisure, that includes good, imaginative tales with coronary heart and comedic edge. From scripted comedy sequence to late-night exhibits, sport exhibits, and animated programming, TBS’ Originals slate is comprised of among the hottest exhibits on cable — “Miracle Staff,” “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee,” “The Final O.G.,” “American Dad!” and “Chad.” The community’s slate of premium unscripted sequence contains “The Distress Index,” “Go-Huge Present,” “Wipeout,” “Friday Evening Vibes” and “The Dice” together with upcoming sequence, “The Huge D”. TBS’ lineup additionally contains comedy hits like “Younger Sheldon” and “The Huge Bang Principle,” traditional sitcom favorites similar to “Mates,” blockbuster motion pictures, and reside occasion protection of Main League Baseball, the NCAA Division I Males’s Basketball Championship and “ELEAGUE,” WarnerMedia’s eSports gaming competitors. Web site: www.tbs.com