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The Jeff Dunham Show: Comedy Central Show Cancelled, No Season Two
10 hours ago
While the premiere of The Jeff Dunham Show attracted a record number of viewers for Comedy Central, the show's not coming back for a second season.
The Jeff Dunham Show is a sketch comedy series that features ventriloquist Dunham and his stable of characters. Segments of Dunham onstage in front of a live audience are combined with footage from around Los Angeles.
The October 2009 debut brought great ratings for the series and Comedy Central. An estimated 5.3 million viewers watched, with a 2.2 rating in the coveted 18-49 demographic. Both numbers represented a record for the cable channel. Following multiple airings, the tally of viewers amounted to 7.9 million.
Unfortunately, the audience for the second episode of Jeff Dunham fell by 55% and subsequent installments fell even further. The season (now series) finale hit a low of 1.3 million »
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The Boondocks: Animated Series Returning for Season Three
18 hours ago
After two years away, it looks like The Boondocks, a sometimes controversial animated series, is coming back for a third season.
The Boondocks revolves around a family that has moved from the South Side of Chicago to the peaceful suburbs of Washington, DC. Young Huey Freeman (Regina King) is the narrator and voice of reason in the series, mocked by his trouble-making eight-year-old brother Riley (King) and their "Granddad" (John Witherspoon). Others in the cast include Gary Anthony Williams, Cedric Yarbrough, Jill Talley, Gabby Soleil, Kevin Michael Richardson, Jim Meskimen, Carl Jones, DeRay Davis, Affion Crockett, and Corey Burton.
Created by Aaron McGruder, The Boondocks was initially pitched as both a comic strip and an animated series. It was picked up as a strip and began running in newspapers in April 1999. The TV show finally made it to television in November 2005 »
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The Tyra Banks Show: Host "Cancelling" Her Own Series
29 December 2009 4:33 PM, PST
Following in the footsteps of her talk-show idol, Oprah Winfrey, model Tyra Banks has announced that she's ending her own daytime series.
The Tyra Banks Show has been on the air for five seasons, since September 2005. It began its run in syndication and then, last season, switched to the CW network last fall.
Banks revealed the plans to end the Tyra show this week and, on her website, wrote " Hey there. I want to share some news with you. This will be the last season of The Tyra Show. I've been loving having fun, coming into your living rooms, bedrooms, hair salons for the past 5 years. The thing is, The Tyra Show is not leaving because of You. Most times, a show leaves the air because not many people are watching. Well, you all Are watching, in record numbers. You »
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The Golden Girls and Soap: Marsha Posner Williams Audio Interview, Part Two
28 December 2009 6:00 PM, PST
This is the second part of an interview with producer Marsha Posner Williams. In the first part, we discussed how Williams began her career in television, working on the legendary ABC sitcom, Soap.
As one of the few people to work on the show from the very beginning to its untimely cancellation, Williams shared some of the casting challenges behind the scenes, her first-hand experience with the picketing and controversy surrounding the show, production challenges, and personal memories of the very talented cast, like Katherine Helmond, Robert Mandan, Robert Guillaume, Cathryn Damon, Richard Mulligan, Jay Johnson, and Billy Crystal.
In the second part of the interview, Williams talks briefly about other Soap alumnae like Ted Wass, Jimmy Baio, Diana Canova, Arthur Peterson, John Byner, and Donnelly Rhodes. She also puts to rest the idea that Soap was intentionally ended with one of »
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