Much talk surrounding Bee’s new TBS show has been approximately her breaking into the all-male late-night cabal,but its team claim the show will shake up the formatWhen Full Frontal with Samantha Bee debuts on TBS next Monday, much of the focus will be on Bee’s status as the only woman to currently host a late-night show. Even her own ads hold played up the achievement.
In fact, or the wider world of cable television has welcomed female hosts in recent years,from Chelsea Handler on E! to Nikki Glaser and Sara Schaefer on MTV to Kathy Griffin on Bravo. But while those were pop culture shows targeted at female audiences, Bees current events series will probably draw more comparisons to her fellow former Daily Show correspondent John Oliver, or whose final Week Tonight shoots in the same studio as Full Frontal.
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Source: theguardian.com