FIRST LOOK
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ON TELEVISION (FRIDAY 10/31/14)
H2: Brad Meltzer’s Lost History (Premiere) at 10pm
(SATURDAY 11/1/14)
OWN: Deion’s Family Playbook (Premiere) at 9pm
OWN: Flex & Shanice (Premiere) at 10pm
NBC: Saturday Night Live – Host: Chris Rock, Musical Guest: Prince at 11:30pm
(SUNDAY 11/2/14)
E!: Kourtney & Khloe Take The Hamptons (Premiere) at 9pm
E!: House of DVF (Diane Von Furstenberg) Premiere) at 10pm
HBO: Olive Kitteridge (Premiere) at 9pm
PBS: Craft in America (Premiere) at 10:30pm
The View is making a move from ABC’s LA-based daytime entertainment division to ABC News, announced ABC News president James Goldston in a memo on Thursday. The shift allows the talker “to fully draw upon the vast resources of ABC News and our team in New York,” said Goldston. It’s the latest in a series of changes, including three of four new faces and a new executive producer, Bill Wolff, this season.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The Game of Thrones cast renegotiated their contracts to include an option for season seven. According to the Hollywood Reporter, actors on the HBO hit scored big pay raises for upcoming seasons five and six in exchange for tacking another year onto their deals. And with its fourth season finale delivering 7.1 million viewers, a green light is likely on the way.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Daytime talk show host Ellen DeGeneres has launched digital destination EllenTube, home for her own video content as well as curated user videos that will be considered for possible inclusion on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Said DeGeneres, whose @TheEllenShow has almost 34 million Twitter followers, “What makes our site different than any other place is that if you accidentally type in a wrong word, you’re not going to stumble upon something that’s bad or mean…everything on the site is fun.” And yes, there are cats.
(Source: Cynopsis)
WE tv canceled its first original scripted series, The Divide. The season one finale in August drew 280,000 viewers.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Time Warner Cable lost a net 184,000 household video subscribers in 3Q14, reported the company on Thursday, following a drop of 152,000 in the quarter prior. Growth in revenue was revised downward, from about 4 percent to 3.1 percent, in part because of advertising “trending a little bit lighter than we expected,” said CFO Artie Minson, and the refusal of distributors to carry regional SportsNet LA.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Kyra Sedgwick (The Closer) and The New Adventures of Old Christine creator Kari Lizer have a comedy project at HBO, which they’ll exec produce for Warner Bros. Television and Kari’s Logo Here. Sedgwick will star as a woman who leaves her life as a nun.
(Source: Cynopsis)
E! extended its agreement with The Soup host Joel McHale through 2016. The Community star, with the pop culture recap show since 2004, also extends his production deal via Free Period Productions giving E! first look rights to ideas for non-scripted series.
(Source: Cynopsis)
A drama project inspired by the experiences of lawyer-to-celebs Shawn Holley, from Universal Television and Working Title, has landed at NBC. Power co-exec producer Lauren Schmidt will write, and exec produce with Holley.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Marsha Goes to Jail, a Warner Bros. Television comedy project about a substitute teacher assigned to a juvenile detention classroom, has sold to Fox. Pamela Falk and Mike Ellis (The Wedding Planner) will write, and exec produce with Adam Shankman and Jennifer Gibgot through Offspring Entertainment.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Falk and Ellis also sold a primetime soap to ABC. The duo will write American Marriage, about two dysfunctional families reluctantly joined by an upcoming wedding, and exec produce with Grey’s Anatomy’s Ellen Pompeo and Laura Holstein through Calamity Jane.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The cast of FX’s Sons of Anarchy sit down for TBS’s Conan on Tuesday, November 11. Anarchy, in its seventh and final season, airs Tuesdays at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Musician Michael Feinstein headlines an evening produced, directed and written by Devious Maids creator Marc Cherry, tonight at 9p on PBS (check local listings). Michael Feinstein at the Rainbow Room is part of the 2014 PBS Arts Fall Festival, an 11-week series hosted by Tony winner Kristen Chenoweth.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Add Amy Adams, Ben Affleck, Benedict Cumberbatch, Robert Downey, Jr., Jonah Hill, Keira Knightley and Kristen Stewart to the list of celebs slated to appear on the inaugural broadcast of the Hollywood Film Awards, airing live on CBS Friday, November 14 at 8p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Oprah Winfrey gives spiritual life coach and Iyanla, Fix My Life host Iylanla Vanzant a surprise home renovation, with an assist from interior designer pal Nate Berkus, on Oprah Prime: Iylanla I’ll Fix Your House. Makeover special premieres on OWN Saturday, November 29 at 8p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Pitbull and Carlos Santana will perform together on the 15th Annual Latin Grammy Awards. Ceremony airs live on Univision Thursday, November 20 at 8p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Great American Country is premiering two new shows next month: Carnival Eats, focused on far-out festival food, debuts Thursday, November 6 at 8p, and restoration series Barn Hunters arrives Tuesday, November 18 at 9p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
E!’s Christina Milian Turned Up follows the singer/actress and her family (“We’re Cuban, we’re loud, we’re fun”) as Milian balances reinvigorating her career with raising her young daughter. Docu-series from Banca Studio and G3 Production in association with Lionsgate Television premieres Sunday, January 18 at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
A close-knit family deals with the joys and challenges of a house full of 19 children on…not TLC hit 19 Kids & Counting, but UP original reality series Bringing Up Bates, launching Thursday, January 1 at 9p. “Figure 8 Films first met the Bates family while producing 19 Kids & Counting and we knew right away that they had a story we wanted to tell,” said Figure 8 partner/exec producer Kirk Streb. “Actually, hundreds of stories.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
Joining Vince Vaughn (Wedding Crashers) and Colin Farrell (Alexander) on season two of HBO drama True Detective are Abigail Spencer (Rectify), Kelly Reilly (Black Box), Leven Rambin (The Hunger Games) and Michael Irby (The Unit).
(Source: Cynopsis)
Adrian Lester (Hustle) has been cast in a recurring role on Red Band Society. Freshman Fox drama airs Wednesdays at 9p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
TLC’s 19 Kids & Counting delivered record ratings Tuesday night, with 4.4 million P2+ viewers, and an average 3.5 HH rating and 3.0 among W25-54 and W18-49. The two-hour Duggar/Dillard wedding episode was the number one cable program in Prime among HH, P2+ and all key women demos.
(Source: Cynopsis)
USA comedy Benched premiered on Tuesday to 877,000 total viewers and 495,000 among A18-49.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Bounce TV boasts of double-digit Primetime viewership gains in October: up 53 percent among HHs (to 151,000), up 28 percent among P18-49 (78,000) and up 41 percent among P25-54 (93,000). The season two of premiere of the net’s Family Time reached 341,000 Total Adult Viewers in Live+SD, making it the most-watched Bounce TV original ever.
(Source: Cynopsis)
DIY announced it had its most-watched October ever in Prime, with 86,000 P25-54 impressions, a 19 percent gain over October 2013. Season two of Vanilla Ice Goes Amish attracted more than 2.2 million viewers in the month, while more than 1.6 million viewers tuned in to The Shatner Project since its premiere on Thursday, October 23 at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
MOVIES
Nightcrawler – Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Bill Paxton, Riz Ahmed, Ann Cusack, Kevin Rahm, Michael Hyatt, Viviana Chavez
Saw (10th Anniversary Re-Release) – Cary Elwes, Danny Glover, Monica Potter, Michael Emerson, Tobin Bell, Ken Leung, Makenzie Vega
ABCs of Death 2 (Limited Release) – Aharon Keshales, Navot Papushado, Alejandro Brugues, Bill Plimpton, Chris Nash, Dennison Ramalho, Erik Matti, Evan Katz, Hajime Ohata, Jen Soska, sylvia Soska, Jerome Sable, Jim Hosking, Juan Martinez Moreno, Julian Barratt, Julian Gibey, Alexandre Bustillo, Kristina Buozyte, Bruno Samper. Lancelot Imasuen, Larry Fessenden, Marvin Kren, Robert Boocheck, Robert Morgan, Rodney Ascher Soichi Umezawa, Steven Kostanski, Todd Rohal, Vincenzo Natali
Horns (Limited Release) – Daniel Radcliffe, Juno Temple, Max Minghella, Joe Anderson, Kelli Garner, Heather Graham, David Morse, Kathleen Quinlan
NYC STREET FAIRS
Friday October 31, 2014
Brooklyn Civic Center Halloween Fair – on Johnson St. from Adams St. to Cadman Plaza West
Village Halloween Parade (starts at 7pm) – Sixth Ave. South of Spring St.
New York City Craft Beer Festival Autumn Harvest – Lexington Armory on 26th St. from 8pm to 10:30pm
19th Annual Museum of Natural History Halloween Celebration – 79th St. & Central Park West from 4pm – 7pm
Children’s Hippo Halloween Parade – Soldiers’ & Sailors Monument, 89th St. & Riverside Dr.
Saturday November 1, 2014
New York City Craft Beer Festival Autumn Harvest – Lexington Armory on 26th St. from 2pm – 4:30pm and 7pm – 9:30pm
A.D.A.’s World Largest Block Party – on Madison Ave. from 42nd to 57th St.
Sunday November 2, 2014
Sixth Ave. Autumn Fair – on 6th Ave. from 34th To 42nd St.
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