Arsenio Hall Looking to Return to Late-Night

By Paige Albiniak
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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CBS Television Distribution and Tribune Broadcasting are partnering to develop and distribute a late-night talk show with Arsenio Hall, according to several sources. The show is being developed for a 2013 debut in syndication.

Neither CBS nor Tribune would comment.

As of yet, there's no deal in place, although sources say they expect an official announcement next month.

Hall, 56, was named the winner of the fifth edition of NBC's Celebrity Apprentice on May 20. He hosted a hit late-night talk show from 1989 to 1994 that CBS, then Paramount, distributed to TV stations.

Paige Albiniak
Paige Albiniak

Contributing editor Paige Albiniak has been covering the business of television for more than 25 years. She is a longtime contributor to Next TV, Broadcasting + Cable and Multichannel News. She concurrently serves as editorial director for The Global Entertainment Marketing Academy of Arts & Sciences (G.E.M.A.). She has written for such publications as TVNewsCheck, The New York Post, Variety, CBS Watch and more. Albiniak was B+C’s Los Angeles bureau chief from September 2002 to 2004, and an associate editor covering Congress and lobbying for the magazine in Washington, D.C., from January 1997 - September 2002.