NBC's Slip 'N Slide show shut down for poo-related reasons

PLUS: Melissa McCarthy & Netflix shut down Aussie production without paying crews. AND: the launch of GB News.

Sometimes you get the opportunity to write the world's greatest story in your TV newsletter, but when the time comes to write it up, you don't know exactly how to delicately phrase it. So... let me just say it:

NBC shut down its water slide-themed game show because of an outbreak of explosive diarrhea on set.

A source with knowledge of the production said…