Slow Syndie Season Yields Just Two New Series

摘要

IT'S ANOTHER SLOW SEASON for syndication, with only two new first-run shows, one off-cable series and one off-network sitcom, coming to stations this fall. CBS Television Distribution is bringing out Face the Truth, from Jay McGraw's Stage 29 Productions and starring Vivica A. Fox, while Debmar-Mercury announced its new court show, Caught in Providence, back in February. Two former heads of major syndica-tors - Barry Wallach and Joe diSalvo - have cleared True Crime Files off Investigation Discovery in nearly the entire country, while Disney-ABC Domestic Television is launching this year's only sitcom, Black-ish. In the meantime, all of last year's newcomers - CTD's Daily Mail TV, Twentieth's Page Six TV, Entertainment Studios' Funny You Should Ask, Pickler & Ben from Disney-ABC and E.W. Scripps and Tegna's Daily BlastLive - are all coming back, while NBCUniversal's Harry is ending its two-season run.