BET Picks Up Robin Thede’s Late Night Talk Show Produced By Chris RockPosted by Wilson Morales
April 27, 2017
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
Comedic actress and writer Robin Thede is set to host Late Night Talk Show for BET, states The Hollywood Reporter. The cable network picked up the 24-episode order and will launch in the fall.
The Rundown With Robin Thede will be 30-minute news satire series that will be executive produced by Robin, along with Chris Rock and Jax Media’s Tony Hernandez, Lilly Burns, John Skidmore and Genevieve Anniello.
Each episode will see the comedian take on the week’s headlines in politics and pop culture with a fast-paced, no-holds-barred show that will feature social commentary, sketch comedy and pop culture parodies.
Thede was a writer and performer on The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore. From 2015-16 she was the head writer for the first season and a half of The Nightly Show, and the first black woman to hold that position on any late-night talk show. The site also states that in season two of the series, she transitioned to serve as both a writer and performer before being promoted to a series-regular castmember.
Prior, she was head writer on The Queen Latifah Show and staff writer on the first two seasons of Real Husbands of Hollywood on BET. Thede often works on TV shows as both a writer and actress.
The Rundown is BET’s latest late-night entry following The Mo’Nique Show, which ran for two seasons in 2009 and 2010. For Rock, meanwhile, The Rundown becomes his third late-night series following FX’s Totally Biased With W. Kamau Bell, which ran for two seasons on FX and FXX in 2013, and his Emmy-winning The Chris Rock Show, which ran for five seasons on HBO.
