Snoop Dogg will host a revival of classic game show The Joker’s Wild for TBS, the cable channel announced Wednesday.
The Sony Pictures Television half-hour program will be set in a faux casino with giant dice, playing cards, streetwise questions and problem solving — in addition to the giant slot machine featured in the original. Snoop Dogg will executive produce the project with Michael Strahan, Constance Schwartz-Morini of SMAC, Ted Chung of Snoopadelic Films, and Vincent Rubino.
“I'm a huge fan of game shows and The Joker’s Wild was my favorite show growing up,” said Snoop Dogg. “It always matched the flavor and personality of Snoop Dogg! Me and the Snoopadelic team are excited to bring back the show and put my own personal touch on it. Get ready ya'll, it's gonna be a wild ride!”
In addition, TBS announced Wednesday:
• A 13-episode order for Close Enough, a new animated series from Regular Show creator J.G. Quintel.
• A new late-night programming block from sister studio Super Deluxe including new programs Art Theifs from creators Joseph Carnegie and Ben Jones; Dummy from creator Cody Heller; and Poundhole, described as “a contemporary take on Soul Train takes place in a surreal underground music club.”
• A seven-episode order for Miracle Workers, an anthology comedy series starring Daniel Radcliffe and Owen Wilson.
CBS pairs ‘Big Bang,’ spin-off series
NEW YORK — Young Sheldon and his grown-up version on The Big Bang Theory will be paired on CBS’ Thursday night schedule this fall.
The Big Bang spinoff, centered on star Jim Parsons’ character as a precocious 9-year-old Texas high school student, is one of eight new series coming to CBS in the 2017-18 season.
Parsons and the rest of the Big Bang Theory cast are signed through the next two seasons, a recently wrapped negotiation that included CBS Corp. chief executive Leslie Moonves meeting with the actors of TV’s No. 1 comedy.
“I hope it goes beyond that,” Moonves told reporters Wednesday, but, he added, “I can’t make any promises.”
Other freshman CBS shows set for a fall debut include sitcoms 9JKL, with the story of an actor (Mark Feuerstein) living near his parents and brother, and Me, Myself & I, which looks at a man at different stages of his life and stars Bobby Moynihan and John Larroquette.
CBS’ new fall dramas are Seal Team, with David Boreanaz as a member of an elite Navy SEAL team; Wisdom of the Crowd, with Jeremy Piven as a tech guru who creates a crowdsourcing app to solve crimes after his daughter is killed, and S.W.A.T., inspired by the TV series and movie and starring Shemar Moore.
But CBS viewers have seen the last of canceled series Two Broke Girls and The Odd Couple.
Conan O’Brien re-ups through 2022
NEW YORK — Turner says TBS has closed a new deal with Conan O’Brien that extends through 2022.
Talk-show veteran O’Brien’s new four-year pact with TBS keeps him at the network where Conan debuted in November, 2010, after his abrupt exit from The Tonight Show when NBC reinstated Jay Leno as host.
But the format and distribution strategy for O’Brien’s talents will evolve from his current Monday-through-Thursday hour. He will “expand the boundaries from a talk show to a range of personality-based, cross-platform experiences,” according to TBS and TNT President Kevin Reilly.
More ‘Arrested Development’ coming
Arrested Development, the cult-classic comedy, is returning with its entire regular cast for a fifth season in 2018, Netflix confirmed on Wednesday. It will be 12 years after Fox canceled the show, and five years after Netflix revived it for a long-awaited fourth season.
“In talks with Netflix we all felt that stories about a narcissistic, erratically behaving family in the building business — and their desperate abuses of power — are really underrepresented on TV these days,” Mitchell Hurwitz, the series creator, said in a statement.
First Published May 18, 2017, 4:00 a.m.
