WBD Kills TBS Dating Show, Unscripted Chief Leaves

[Mark Jeffries]

The new cost-cutting management at Warner Bros. Discovery has cancelled the TBS dating show "The Big D" three weeks before its scheduled premiere, with promos airing and on YouTube, as supposedly a tax writeoff--seemingly coincidentally, the Turner channels' head of unscripted Corie Henson is leaving Turner, but still...:

https://deadline.com/2022/06/tbs-dating-format-the-big-d-axed-three-weeks-ahead-premiere-1235047410/

Just a few weeks ago, the TBS scripted sitcom "Kill the Orange-Faced Bear" was canned days before production was to start, but that's almost to be expected from a new management more accustomed to reality shows.  But this is an unscripted show that is presumably in the can.  Either producers Lighthearted Entertainment will be allowed to sell it to another buyer or it will get dumped onto HBO Max or Discovery+ with no promotion.