Bob Hearts Abishola will premiere in broadcast syndication this fall on such station groups as Nexstar Media Group, Sinclair, Hearst Television, Tegna, E.W. Scripps, Weigel Broadcasting, Sunbeam Television, Gray Television, Mission Broadcasting, Lockwood Broadcast Group and Bahakel Broadcasting, Warner Bros. Discovery Content Sales confirmed Wednesday. 

The Warner Bros. Television sitcom, which is concluding its five-season run on CBS, is joining its Chuck Lorre-produced siblings — The Big Bang Theory, Young Sheldon and Two and a Half Men — in syndication. Bob Hearts Abishola also has been sold to stations in a three-year deal, starting this fall and running through 2026-27 — which is also when Two and a Half Men’s fourth cycle expires. The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon, which premiered in syndication in fall 2021, are renewed through the 2025-26 syndicated TV season. Young Sheldon’s first five seasons debuted on Netflix in November with season six coming to the streaming service in February.

“Nexstar couldn’t be more thrilled to welcome Bob Hearts Abishola to our stations, standing proudly among the other outstanding Chuck Lorre comedies that we currently have on our slate,” Nexstar president, networks Sean Compton said. “It’s an exciting addition that promises to deliver a lot of laughter and heartfelt moments to our viewers.”

Bob Hearts Abishola stars Billy Gardell as Bob, a middle-aged compression sock businessman in Detroit who falls for his cardiac nurse, Abishola (Folake Olowofoyeku), a Nigerian immigrant, while recovering from a heart attack. Undaunted by Abishola’s initial lack of interest or vast differences in their backgrounds, Bob is determined to win her heart, and eventually marries her in this comedic examination of immigrant life in America.

“Working on Bob Hearts Abishola has been a joy,” creator and executive producer Chuck Lorre said in a statement. “From the authentic perspective our cast brings to their roles to the rich cultural experience our writers and crew bring to life each week, Bob Hearts Abishola has truly shown that immigrants make America great, and that love comes in many forms.  I’m happy that audiences will be able to continue to enjoy these beautiful stories in syndication for years to come.”

Lorre, Gina Yashere and Matt Ross are executive producers. The show is produced by Chuck Lorre Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television. 

HBO Max will bring back its original teen horror series Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin for a second season.

The Warner Bros. Television and Alloy Entertainment-produced series, which ended its freshman season run last month, takes place 20 years after the events of the original Pretty Little Liars series. The original series ran on Freeform from 2010 to 2017. A new generation of teen girls find themselves taunted by an unknown assailant and made to pay for  the secret sin committed by their parents two decades ago, as well as their own sins, according to the streaming service.

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The ensemble cast includes Bailee Madison, Chandler Kinney, Zaria, Malia Pyles, Maia Reficco, Mallory Bechtel and Sharon Leal. The series is executive produced by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Lindsay Calhoon Bring, along with I. Marlene King, Michael Grassi, Caroline Baron, Leslie Morgenstein and Gina Girolamo. 

“We are so proud of the incredible response both critically and from fans that Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin has received,” HBO Max Head of Original Content Sarah Aubrey said in a statement. “Viewers have embraced our new generation of Liars, and Roberto and Lindsay’s brilliant dark, horror-fueled take on this iconic franchise. Along with Alloy and Warner Bros. Television, we are thrilled to continue the Pretty Little Liars legacy.” ■ 

OWN:Oprah Winfrey Network will develop a third season of the courtroom drama All Rise, the network said Wednesday.

The series, which was cancelled by CBS earlier this year after two seasons, will return to OWN for its third season in 2022. All Rise, which stars Simone Missick, follows the chaotic, hopeful, and sometimes absurd lives of its judges, prosecutors, and public defenders, as they work with bailiffs, clerks, and police to get justice for the people of Los Angeles amidst a flawed legal system, said the network. 

Dee Harris-Lawrence (OWN’s David Makes Man) will return as executive producer and showrunner for the third season of the Warner Bros. Television-produced series.

“All Rise has been a great performer, achieving strong ratings and growing its share from season one to two. Featuring a strong character front and center, Judge Lola Carmichael's story reflects our audience with powerful affirmation,” said Tina Perry, president, OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network in a statement.. “A special thanks to Warner Bros. Television and our incredible showrunner and longtime partner Dee Harris-Lawrence. We can’t wait to get started on season three and bring this show back for long-standing and new fans alike.”

HBO Max and Hulu have acquired subscription streaming rights to all episodes of All Rise, with the first two season of the series launching on both services beginning Dec. 1, according to Warner Bros. Television.

“We are incredibly thrilled that All Rise will be back in court, and we are so thankful to our great partners at OWN for ruling in favor of another season of this powerful drama,” said Warner Bros. Television President Brett Paul in a statement. “Dee Harris-Lawrence and the creative team have done an incredible job of telling important stories about timely subjects which have been brought to life by Simone Missick and the show’s outstanding ensemble cast. We can’t wait for audiences to see what the All Rise team has in store for season three. And we are also grateful to our partners at HBO Max and Hulu, without whose support this would not be possible.”

Warner Bros. Television named Vicki Dummer as executive VP and head of current programming.

Dummer, who had been head of current series programming at ABC Entertainment, is following Warner Bros. Television Group chairman Channing Dungey, a former ABC programming chief.

Dummer will report to Dungey and will be responsible for current scripted series across all platforms including WarnerMedia’s HBO Max, a new role at the studio. 

“I’m thrilled to have Vicki joining us here at Warner Bros. Television to lead our exceptional current programming team,” Dungey said. “In our time together at ABC, I found Vicki to be a truly insightful and collaborative creative executive who works incredibly well with talent. She has played a pivotal role in managing some of the most successful, long-running series of the last two decades. We are excited to have the benefit of her expertise at what is an extremely exciting time at the studio, as we ramp up our series production for HBO Max while continuing to deliver signature series for external streaming and cable partners, and the broadcast networks.”

Dummer will oversee a restructured current programming team featuring senior leaders Odetta Watkins, Rachel Filippelli and Kelly Goode. Maddie Horen, who supervised broadcast network series, recently retired.

“I’m excited to be reunited with Channing, who is an inspiring and thoughtful leader, and very much looking forward to helping her fulfill her vision for WBTV. The opportunity to lead current programming at this iconic studio with such an impressive roster of producers and series is truly a dream come true,” Dummer said.

Dummer spent nearly 25 years at ABC Entertainment, where she was responsible for series including black-ish, The Goldbergs, Grey’s Anatomy, The Middle, Modern Family and Scandal. 

Kaley Cuoco, star of The Big Bang Theory and HBO Max’s The Flight Attendant, has signed a new deal extending her relationship with Warner Bros. Television, the studio confirmed.

Under the exclusive multi-year pact, Cuoco and her Yes, Norman Productions, led by executive VP Suzanne McCormack, will continue to develop new original programming for broadcast, cable and streaming platforms, including HBO Max.

Financial terms were not disclosed. 

“Warner Bros. has been my home away from home for as long as I can remember which makes this partnership so special on every level. I look forward to much continued success with my extended family,” Cuoco said.

The extension marks Cuoco’s third agreement with the studio. 

Cuoco developed, executive produced and stars in The Flight Attendant, which has been renewed by HBO Max. She is also an executive producer of HBO Max’s animated series Harley Quinn and the voice of the title character.

With Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television, she acquired the rights to Doris Day: Her Own Story, Day’s official biography. The project is in development with Cuoco as the star.

Most recently, Cuoco and Yes, Norman acquired rights to the book A Season with Mom by Katie Russell Newland, a cancer survivor and baseball fan who visits all 30 Major League ballparks in one season. 

Warner Bros., part of AT&T, said that Channing Dungey has been named chairman, Warner Bros. Television Group.

Dungey, who has been with Netflix and Disney will succeed Peter Roth, who recently announced that he was stepping down from the studio.

The move is the latest in a series of shakeups at AT&T’s TV businesses since it acquired Time Warner. The hiring was announced by Ann Sarnoff, who became chair and CEO of AT&T’s WarnerMedia Studios and Networks Group last year.

“This is a homecoming of sorts for Channing, who was a production executive at Warner Bros. early in her career, and we’re excited to have her rejoin the Studio,” said Sarnoff. “Channing is one of the most talented, visionary, creative and respected executives working in television today. She has impeccable taste, a breadth of experience covering all platforms and genres, incredible relationships across the creative community and a keen sense of what’s next and how best to get it to audiences. She’s a great choice to lead the Television Group as it continues to grow its production operations for HBO Max, while also maintaining its standing as the industry’s leading independent supplier of programming to all outlets.”

Dungey most recently served as VP of original series at Netflix. Before that she was president of ABC Entertainment. She joined ABC’s drama development department in 2009.

“The Warner Bros. Television Group is the recognized industry leader in content creation and a true destination for talent based on its ability to produce across all genres and for all outlets,” said Dungey. “I’m thrilled to be joining the company at such a pivotal time in its history and look forward to working with my new colleagues at Warner Bros. and across the Studios and Networks Group to build on the incredible work of my predecessor, Peter Roth. This is such an electric time in our industry, and we have so much opportunity available to us between Warner Bros.’ core businesses and HBO Max, I cannot wait to dive in."

AT&T’s Warner Bros. unit announced that the chairman of its television group, Peter Roth, will be stepping down next year after 20 years heading the studio.

The move is the latest in a series of veteran TV executives who have left AT&T since the company acquired Time Warner last year. 

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The departure was announced by Ann Sarnoff, who was brought in chairman and CEO of WarnerMedia Studios after AT&T took control. 

“Peter and I have been meeting for some time about this, and while there’s never a great moment to say goodbye, he felt that this was the right time to transition in a new leader for the group,” said Sarnoff

“He’s delivered hundreds of shows, thousands of episodes, millions of viewers, with one singular vision – to work with the best people and to make the best television series,” Sarnoff said. “In addition to being well respected by his colleagues and competitors, actors, writers, directors and producers, he is the force behind iconic, pop-culture-defining television shows we all know and love, including The West Wing, The Big Bang Theory, Gilmore Girls, Two And A Half Men, Gossip Girl, Supernatural, The Flash and countless others. We’re thankful for his contributions to our company and wish him the very best.”

Warner Bros. Television Group is part of WarnerMedia’s new Studios and Networks Group, centralizes content creation as the company focuses on HBO Max, its new streaming service under new WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar.

Under Roth Warner Bros. created 32 scripted primetime series that reached the 100-episode mark, the point at which series traditionally began generating revenue in syndication and off-network sales. 

Among those shows are The Big Bang Theory, Two and a Half Men, The West Wing, Gilmore Girls, Smallville, Gossip Girl, Shameless, Nip/Tuck, The Mentalist, Pretty Little Liars, Arrow, Mom, The Closer, Fringe, The Middle, George Lopez, The Flash, Mike & Molly, Person of Interest, Supernatural, Third Watch, The Vampire Diaries and One Tree Hill.

“Working at Warner Bros. has been the greatest, most meaningful, most rewarding experience of my career,” said Roth. “For the past 22 years, I have had the privilege to be associated with some of the most inspiring creative talent, the most impactful television series and the most dedicated and passionate people I have ever known. It has long been my dream to be able to say farewell at the right time in the right way and for the right reason. I’m grateful to Ann Sarnoff for giving me that opportunity and to my Warner Bros. colleagues, past and present, for giving me what has been the gift of a lifetime. I look forward to the next chapter of my career and remaining connected to those people who have meant so much to me.”

AT&T’s WarnerMedia will retain broadcast and streaming rights to Warner Bros. TV sitcom The Big Bang Theory through 2028.

The pocket-to-pocket transaction means the Chuck Lorre-produced comedy will be available on HBO Max when the streaming platform launches next year. The show’s 279 episodes will also keep repeating on linear channel TBS.

According to the Wall Street Journal, which cited unnamed sourcing, the total value of the agreement is worth $600 million.

The Big Bang Theory was a hit prime-time series on CBS for 12 seasons.

“Few shows define a generation and capture mainstream zeitgeist like The Big Bang Theory,” said Robert Greenblatt, chairman of WarnerMedia Entertainment and Direct-To-Consumer, in a statement. ”We’re thrilled that HBO Max will be the exclusive streaming home for this comedy juggernaut when we launch in the spring of 2020. This show has been a hit virtually around the globe, it’s one of the biggest shows on broadcast television of the last decade, and the fact that we get to bring it to a streaming platform for the first time in the U.S. is a coup for our new offering.”

According to WSJ, Lorre is said to be pleased with the outcome of the in-house deal, believing the show was licensed at fair market value.

Related: Netflix Snags Global Streaming Rights to 'Seinfeld' Starting in 2021

Venerable sitcoms like The Big Bang Theory have become valuable chips in a heated battle in which upstarts including HBO Max, Disney+, Comcast/NBCU and Apple TVB+ are crowding into the streaming market to compete with Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Hulu.

Notably, WarnerMedia pulled all 236 episodes of Warner Bros. TV series Friends off Netflix, starting in 2020, and will put them on HBO Max. NBCU did the same with The Office, moving the show from Netflix to its own streaming platform, also set to launch next year.

On Monday, Netflix announced the acquisition of Sony Pictures TV classic Seinfeld, starting in 2021. 

Hulu has greenlit a nine-hour series based on the assassination of President Kennedy, the OTT service announced Monday.

The series, 11/22/63, is based on a Stephen King novel in which high school English teacher Jake Epping travels back in time to prevent the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The series is from J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions (Person of Interest, Fringe, Lost), King, executive producer/writer Bridget Carpenter (The Red Road, Parenthood, Friday Night Lights) and Warner Bros. Television. Carpenter will write the teleplay, with Bad Robot’s Kathy Lingg serving as co-executive producer and Athena Wickham as producer.

 “J.J. Abrams and Stephen King are two of the most celebrated storytellers of our time, and we are excited to be working with them and Warner Bros,” said Craig Erwich, senior  vice president and head of content for Hulu in a statement. “11/22/63 already resonated with audiences as a best-selling novel, and we are looking forward to bringing the riveting story to the screen.”