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D.L. Hughley getting NBC game show

According to The Hollywood Reporter, NBC has ordered a pilot for a new prime time game show called "Who's Bluffing Who?" which would be hosted by comedian D.L. Hughley.

The game would have contestants vying against each other and bluffing their way into winning a half-million dollars.

Hughley, one of the stars of Spike Lee's "The Original Kings of Comedy" and the star of ABC's late 90s sitcom "The Hughleys," briefly had a show on CNN last year called "D.L. Hughley Broke the News."

D.L. Tries to Go Out With a Puff

Saturday night at 10 marks the last episode of CNN's comedy experiment "D.L. Hughley Breaks the News," and, according to an anonymous tip to TV Newser, it appears CNN higher-ups forced an edit on producers.

The tipster tells TV Newser that "a large section of a segment about marijuana legalization" was edited out of the final broadcast.

Seems D.L. has chronic back pain and so for a segment, sought out The Chronic by visiting a marijuana dispensary in Oakland, California after his doctor had written him a prescription for
medicinal marijuana.

That portion will not be shown during the segment on the final
show. A CNN spokesperson told TVNewser, "We always edit pieces to conform to our editorial standards."

Yet more proof that this show never belong on a news channel.

Can We Get Some Chocolate with That Vanilla?


With the cancellation of Comedy Central's "Chocolate News" (forcing poor David Alan Grier on to 'Dancing With the Stars' for a paycheck) and the end of "D.L. Hughley Breaks The News" on CNN, it's apparently time to look at diversity on TV again.

At least the New York Times thinks so. Here, it reports on what's happening and what's coming (like the Cleveland Show, a Family Guy spinoff).

"D.L. Hughley Breaks the News" Finally Breaks Down

TV Newser is reporting that CNN's "D.L. Hughley Breaks the News" will end its run at the end of the month, and they say the decision was Hughley's.

Here's CNN's statement: "D.L. approached CNN about being permanently based in Los Angeles, where his family lives. To accommodate this, we agreed upon a new role where he will be a contributor for the network based in Los Angeles. We are eager to continue our relationship with D.L., who is a tremendous talent and a valued colleague."

TVNewser reports that its sources say it would have become cost-prohibitive to produce the show in Los Angeles.

I know from listening to Hughley on "The Tom Joyner Morning Show" that he wasn't in love with the travel back and forth between N.Y. and L.A., and being away from his family.

But here's how I think things went based on nothing but my fertile mind:

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