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Article: Fox picks up Wayans; BVT first-run talk strip lands on 22 stations in Fox's expanded group.(Fox Television Stations to broadcast 'The Keenen Ivory Wayans Show' distributed by Disney's Buena Vista Television)
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- Broadcasting & Cable
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- April 14, 1997
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BVT first-run talk strip lands on 22 stations in Fox's expanded group
Keenen Ivory Wayans has come full circle. The comic auteur who created Fox's In Living Color is headed back to Fox late-night--this time in a first-run talk show strip distributed by Disney's Buena Vista Television.
Wayans' new series, tentatively titled The Keenen Ivory Wayans Show, was picked up last week for an August debut by all 22 outlets of the newly enlarged Fox Television Stations group. During the last two years of its 1990-94 run on Fox, the network programed back-to-back reruns of In Living Color in the 11 p.m.-midnight slot.
The sale gives Buena Vista's ambitious ...