TBS Dating Show ‘The Big D’ Axed Weeks Ahead Of Premiere As Part Of Warner Bros. Discovery Cost-Cutting Plans
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: The Big D, a dating competition hosted by The Bachelorette alums JoJo Fletcher and Jordan Rogers, has been axed at TBS weeks ahead of its premiere.The show is the latest TBS series to be canceled following the Warner Bros.
Discovery merger, which also saw Damon Wayans-fronted comedy series Kill The Orange Bear get the chop a week before it was set to begin production, as revealed by Deadline.It comes as David Zaslav and his team are taking a closer look at the slate that they inherited at networks such as the Turner channels TNT, TBS and truTV as well as HBO and sister streamer HBO Max.HBO’s high-profile J.J.
Abrams sci-fi series Demimonde is also not going forward after discussions over budget.Admittedly, The Big D doesn’t quite have the same price tag as the Bad Robot-produced series, but Deadline understands that the ten-part series has a budget of around $10M and the company has already spent money promoting the show.However, unlike Kill The Orange Bear, TBS was already running promos of the show on air (see below) and it was set to premiere on July 7.
Sources told Deadline that the move was essentially a “tax write off”.It also comes after Deadline revealed that Corie Henson is leaving the Turner networks.“We’re assessing our schedule to ensure we have the right content mix to support our network strategies.
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