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[02/11/21 - 10:00 AM]
Paramount+ Renews Critics' Choice Award Nominated "Stephen Colbert Presents Tooning Out the News" for a Second Season
The series returns Thursday, March 4 with a half-hour special to celebrate and coincide with the launch of the newly rebranded service.

[via press release from CBS]

PARAMOUNT+ RENEWS CRITICS' CHOICE AWARD NOMINATED "STEPHEN COLBERT PRESENTS TOONING OUT THE NEWS" FOR A SECOND SEASON

Season Two Will Premiere with a Special Half-Hour Episode on Thursday, March 4 to Celebrate the Launch of Paramount+

The New Season Will Continue on Monday, March 8 With New Segments Available to Stream Daily, Culminating in a Weekly Full Episode, Exclusively on Paramount+

NEW YORK - Feb. 11, 2021 - Paramount+, the highly anticipated streaming service from ViacomCBS, today announced the renewal of its original animated daily news satire series, TOONING OUT THE NEWS, which is returning for a second season as STEPHEN COLBERT PRESENTS TOONING OUT THE NEWS on Thursday, March 4 with a half-hour special to celebrate and coincide with the launch of the newly rebranded service. The second season will continue Monday, March 8 with new segments available to stream daily, culminating in a weekly full episode, exclusively on Paramount+.

Recently nominated for a Critics' Choice Award for Best Short Form Series, STEPHEN COLBERT PRESENTS TOONING OUT THE NEWS features a cast of animated characters, led by anchor James Smartwood, lampooning top news stories and interviewing real-world guests. The series is executive produced by Stephen Colbert and Chris Licht of CBS' THE LATE SHOW with STEPHEN COLBERT and RJ Fried and Tim Luecke from SHOWTIME's OUR CARTOON PRESIDENT. The series is produced by CBS Studios.

"We are ecstatic to be collaborating again with the talented creative team behind STEPHEN COLBERT PRESENTS TOONING OUT THE NEWS," said Julie McNamara, Executive Vice President and Head of Programming, Paramount+. "They overcame every obstacle 2020 threw at them and day after day delivered an extremely smart, inventive and funny program that offered our audience a bit of reprieve from the 'regular' news cycle. We're cautiously optimistic about what's in store for 2021, but no matter what, we're eager to know what the series' mostly informative segments and characters will have to say about it."

"We are so excited for season two of TOONING OUT THE NEWS, which will feature even more incisive questions, unrelenting egomania, Freudian projection, shameless brand integration, tasteful nudity, unapologetic slander and flat out lying," said Colbert.

The first season covered the many breaking news stories of 2020 and conducted hard-hitting interviews with an array of special guests, including high-ranking politicians, well-known entertainers and esteemed journalists, namely Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, Chasten Buttigieg, Rep. Jamaal Bowman, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, Alyssa Milano, Charlamagne Tha God, Symone Sanders, Alan Dershowitz, Rep. Ted Lieu and Matt Schlapp among others. View season one highlights here.

In addition to Big News, Hot Take, Inside the Hill and Virtue Signal, season two welcomes a number of new analysts and two new segments to the TOONING OUT THE NEWS universe:

"The Establishment with Tory Hughes"

Veteran host and self-described "good Republican" Tory Hughes stands up for the center-right value of politely making things worse alongside an elite panel of Washington termites.

"Smart Talk Tonight"

In this prestigious newsmagazine series, TOONING OUT THE NEWS' stable of highly respected soon-to-be-disgraced animated hosts sit across from real newsmakers in a real studio for intimate one-on-one interviews.

The first season of STEPHEN COLBERT PRESENTS TOONING OUT THE NEWS is available to stream.

Social Handles: @tooningout @tooning.out @tooningout

About Paramount+:

ViacomCBS' existing subscription video-on-demand and live streaming service, CBS All Access, will be rebranded as Paramount+ on March 4, 2021 as part of the service's expansion to feature content from ViacomCBS' leading portfolio of broadcast, news, sports and entertainment brands. ViacomCBS will also bring Paramount+ to international markets with an initial debut in Australia, Latin America and the Nordics in 2021.

About CBS Studios:

CBS Studios is one of the industry's leading suppliers of programming with more than 70 series currently in production across broadcast and cable networks, streaming services and other emerging platforms. The Studio's expansive portfolio spans a diverse slate of commercially successful and critically acclaimed scripted programming, genre-defining franchises including the ever-growing "Star Trek" universe, award-winning late night and daytime talk shows, and an extensive library of iconic intellectual property.





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