Samantha Bee’s New Show Got Its Highest Ratings on Adult Swim, but Won't Keep Airing There

Turner will broadcast it solely on TBS starting next week

To make a huge splash for Monday's premiere of its new TBS show, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, Turner simulcast the program on five networks. The experiment was a success—but for Adult Swim more than TBS.

Bee's critically acclaimed debut was watched by 2.2 million viewers across TBS, TNT, Adult Swim, truTV and HLN, including 1.2 million in the 18-49 demo. However, the numbers were biggest not for TBS, which will be airing the show every Monday at 10:30 p.m.,

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