“Even super pro-choice audiences don’t want to hear Nobody wants to be lectured at a comedy show. While Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, Trevor Noah and John Oliver get great mileage out of skewering politicians, Bee’s takes are often perceived as “lecturing,” says retired comedy writer Ned Rice, who worked in late night for several years as well as on two Joan Rivers shows. Misogyny alert? Viewers don’t want to be “lectured” about politics by a woman Upon hearing of the show’s cancellation on Monday, Greenwald tweeted, “By far Sam Bee’s most notable moment in 7 years hosting that dreary, banal liberal show - arguably her only notable moment -was when she called Ivanka Trump the c-word.” (Greenwald seems to have a thing for Bee.) This segment of “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee” received more than 436,000 views on YouTube. Right-wing politicians and pundits were infuriated and two advertisers - Autotrader and State Farm Insurance - pulled their ads. “Let me just say, one mother to another, do something about your dad’s immigration practices, you feckless c**t!,” Bee fumed. On May 30, 2018, Bee called out Ivanka Trump for her hypocrisy in not denouncing her father’s border police of separating immigrant children from the parents. She was never forgiven for the “feckless c**t” remark about Ivanka Trump “Full Frontal,” which, like “Real Time With Bill Maher” and “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver,” ran only one episode per week, was originally on Monday, and then Wednesday, before being shifted to Thursday for its final season.
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However, by 2020, the show had sunk back to 3.5 million, before falling to a series low of 2.9 million in 2021.
That built on the 2016-election-boosted Season 1 numbers of 3.3 million and Season 2’s 3.4 million. Ratings for “Full Frontal” peaked with its fourth season, which aired from 2018-2019, with 4 million viewers per episode, TBS reported at the time. Post-merger, the axe has fallen for sitcom “Chad” after one season, and Damon Wayans’ “Kill The Orange-Faced Bear” scripted comedy series which had been ordered to series in November was canceled just before production was set to start.Ĭonan O’Brien Was the Last of His Kind: An Apolitical Late-Night Host Pre-merger, host Conan O’Brien’s nine-year-old show was cut to half an hour in 2019 and in November 2020, TBS announced that the show would end in June 2021. TBS was already on a comedy-cancelling spree Weitz touted the show’s Season 7 renewal in September 2021, praising Bee for “shining a spotlight on important issues and people… and ask questions of authority and ourselves that need to be asked.” At the time, he added, “I’m thrilled she will continue to call TBS home.” As it turned out, both would be gone in less than a year. His May departure meant that Bee’s biggest champion at the network was gone. Discoveryīrett Weitz, General Manager of TNT, TBS and truTV, was among the execs who exited earlier this year following the great Warner Bros. Samantha Bee lost her champion during the regime change at Warner Bros. Representatives for Bee, who was a producer as well as the host of “Full Frontal,” did not immediately respond to an emailed message seeking comment.īee and relative newcomers NBC’s Amber Ruffin and Showtime’s Ziwe have been among the few women to gain a weekly foothold in the realm long dominated by male hosts.Well that’s unkind, but late night has arguably never been a welcoming environment for women: Joan Rivers, who became the first woman to host a late-night talk show in 1986, had a one-year run before seeing the show taken over by a man.īee did not respond to TheWrap’s request for comment for this article.Ī TBS spokeswoman attributed the cancellation to the network’s “new programming strategy.” But we know better. TBS praised Bee and other makers of “Full Frontal” for “groundbreaking work” and said it will explore ways in the future to collaborate with the cast and crew. Previously, TBS said it would not carry the second season of Nasim Pedrad’s sitcom “Chad” and was seeking a new home for it. last April to become the new Warner Bros.
TBS was part of WarnerMedia, which merged with Discovery Inc. In a statement announcing the cancellation, TBS said it has made “some difficult, business-based decisions” as part of its new programming strategy LOS ANGELES (AP) - TBS is canceling “Full Frontal With Samantha Bee” after seven seasons, removing a rare female voice from late-night TV, the channel said Monday.
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