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Samantha Bee’s long-running late-night series,Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, has been canceled at TBS.
A TBS spokesperson confirmed to PEOPLE on Monday that Bee’s Emmy-winning show won’t be included in the network’s programming going forward.
“As we continue to shape our new programming strategy, we’ve made some difficult, business-based decisions.Full Frontal with Samantha Beewill not return to TBS,” the spokesperson said.
“We are proud to have been the home toFull Frontal with Samantha Beeand thank Sam, and the rest of the Emmy-nominated team for their groundbreaking work,” the statement continued. “We celebrate this extraordinarily talented cast and crew and look forward to exploring new opportunities to work with them in the future.”
“Samantha Bee is honored to have hosted the Emmy award winning seriesFull Frontal with Samantha Beeon TBS for seven seasons, but the show will not return to the network this fall,” a rep for Bee said in a statement shared with PEOPLE. “Full Frontalmost recently received its 19th Emmy nomination, for Outstanding Short Form Nonfiction or Reality Series. Bee made television history in the late night space, paving the way for female voices in what has traditionally been, and continues to be a male dominated landscape.”
“Full Frontal with Samantha Beeconsistently broke barriers with Sam and her team boldly using political satire to entertain, inform and empower viewers, while embracing critically underrepresented stories, particularly about women,” the statement concluded.
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Bee, a former correspondent onThe Daily Show, began hostingFull Frontalin 2016. Her series served as one of the few female perspectives in the male-dominated late-night genre, where she offered her take on a variety of modern-day political issues.
Bee, 52, celebrated the show’s 200th episode in December.
“Conan did 7,000 episodes of his show, but I feel like I’m gaining on him,” she previously joked on her show, perDeadline. “I really can’t believe it. I am really impressed with myself. It is a really great feeling. I would not have thought we would have got to 200 [episodes] so it feels like a really huge accomplishment. I was trying to impress my kids with it, saying ‘Check out your mom’, and they could not have been less interested.”
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Full Frontal’s cancellation comes as many shakeups are erupting across the late-night landscape.
Desus & Merowasabruptly canceled as Showtimeearlier this month after four seasons. Before that,Conan O’Brienendedhis longtime late-night runin June 2021 andLilly Singh’s NBC serieswas axedin May 2021.
Additionally,James Cordenannounced his plans to leaveThe Late Late Showin 2023.
source: people.com
