Full Frontal w/ Samantha Bee has been canned

After seven seasons, weekly comedy talk show Full Frontal with Samantha Bee has been cancelled by the Warner Bros Discovery-owned TBS.

As a show, Full Frontal was always pushing uphill. It had a target on its back as the only US late night talk show with a female host for much of its run, but layer that with the progressive politics of the show and the general tone of the show, which I would define as "aggrieved," and you have a show that was always the focus of attacks from online message board commentators. Just look at the comments on the Deadline article about its cancellation. Oh, the glee being demonstrated...

The cancellation is not necessarily an indication of a problem with the show or audience interest - it follows a sweep out of original series at TBS as the new Warner Bros Discovery management embark on cost-cutting measures.

Oh boy

While news of a new Quantum Leap series is good, a new Quantum Leap series made in this era of the almost-always-awful US broadcast network drama makes one concerned. Are those concerns founded? Well, consider today's news...

NBC has announced that Quantum Leap reboot creators and showrunners Steven Lilien and Bryan Wynbrandt are off the show (but will still get Exec Producer credits) and in as showrunner is former Blindspot chief Martin Gero. He had been working on Quantum Leap as an Executive Producer already.

NBC apparently weren't happy with the pilot, so will re-shoot a new first episode with the pilot airing as a possible episode 3.

Yikes.

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A new-look for Google Play

Google Play has updated its logo for its 10th anniversary. And, to be completely honest, if the old and new logos were placed side-by-side, I would know which was the older logo. But I would never feel 100% certain that I would know which is which.

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