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Tuesday, July 26, 2022

Full Frontal Cut!

Full Frontal is cancelled. At a crucial time, WarnerMedia cuts Samantha Bee.

TBS has announced the cancellation of Full Frontal with Samantha Bee. 

With seven seasons of the show, the network has decided to not renew it for season eight.

Samantha Bee, a comedian, former contributor and writer for The Daily Show hosted the late night show. The move appears to be a WarnerMedia Discovery move to reduce costs. 

“As we continue to shape our new programming strategy, we’ve made some difficult, business-based decisions. ‘Full Frontal With Samantha Bee′ will not return to TBS,” network representatives said in a statement. “We are proud to have been the home to ‘Full Frontal With Samantha Bee’ and thank Sam, and the rest of the Emmy-nominated team for their groundbreaking work. We celebrate this extraordinarily talented cast and crew and look forward to exploring new opportunities to work with them in the future.”

I will only imagine that Bee will hammer the network for being "cost efficient."

"After 7 seasons, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee will not be returning to TBS this fall," the show announced Monday on its official Twitter account. "We're so thankful for our loyal audience, our amazing team, and that we got to annoy the right people every week—that there wasn't wrestling or baseball or a very special episode of 'Big Bang.'"

"To our loyal fans - we love you, you're very special. Go home, and go home in peace," the show's statement continued.

During its run, "Full Frontal with Samantha Bee" was nominated four times in the best variety talk series Emmy category. One of the show's specials, "Full Frontal with Samantha Bee Presents Not the White House Correspondents' Dinner," earned an Emmy for outstanding writing for a variety special in 2017.

Bee has been on the forefront of taking on Washed Up 45, the Supreme Court, sexism, racism, the Republicans and sheer stupidity in America. 

Asked about the reason for the cancellation, a TBS spokesperson told CNN: "As we continue to shape our new programming strategy, we've made some difficult, business-based decisions."

"We are proud to have been the home to 'Full Frontal with Samantha Bee' and 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."

Not one to leave anything on a sour note, the show's Twitter account for the show joked: "'Full Frontal' is leaving TBS to go spend more time with her family."

Her show leaves a huge gap for women in comedy. 

Being the only woman on cable to host a late night comedy show, it was a huge success to have Samantha Bee. 

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