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ON TELEVISION (FRIDAY 9/11/15)
ABC: 20/20 (Premiere) at 10pm
DISCOVERY: Bering Sea Gold (Premiere) at 9pm
DIY: Man Caves: (Premiere) at 9pm
OWN: For Better Or Worse (Premiere) at 9pm
SYFY: Z Nation (Premiere) at 10pm
SYFY: Continuum (Premiere) at 11pm
ANIMAL PLANET: Redwood Kings (Finale) at 8pm
E!: The Comment Section (Finale) at 10:30pm
(SATURDAY 9/12/15)
GREAT AMERICAN COUNTRY: Lake Guys (Premiere) at 2pm
ID: Twisted Tales of My 9 to 5 (Premiere) at 9pm
NICKELODEON: Game Shakers (Premiere) at 8:30pm
UP: Dancin’ The Dream (Premiere) at 8pm
(SUNDAY 9/13/15)
ABC: The 2016 Miss America Competition at 8pm
E!: House of DVF (Premiere) at 9pm
HALLMARK MOVIES & MYSTERIES: Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Truth Be Told (Premiere) at 9pm
HBO: Project Greenlight (Premiere) at 10pm
HBO: Doll & Em (Premiere) at 11pm
TLC: Sister Wives (Premiere) at 9pm
UNIVISION: La Banda (Premiere) at 8pm
UP: Welcome Home (Premiere) at 7pm
DIY: Attic Gold (Finale) at 9:30pm
E!: I Am Cait (Finale) at 8pm
More than six months after losing his anchor chair on NBC Nightly News, Brian Williams will return to the airwaves. Williams, who was suspended after it came to light he had embellished reporting experiences, will debut in a new role on MSNBC on Tuesday, September 22, the day Pope Francis is scheduled to visit the U.S., to anchor live breaking news. MSNBC is in the midst of schedule changes and says Williams will not have a dedicated hour on its new lineup.
(Source: Cynopsis)
It’s a greenlight from AMC for Preacher, the character-driven comic book adaptation from Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg and Sam Catlin (Breaking Bad) that will premiere in mid-2016. Rogen directed the pilot, which stars Dominic Cooper and is based on the Vertigo series by Garth Ennis and artist Steve Dillon, and written by Catlin. The plot involves preacher who struggles with his parish and his relationship with God. Rogen, Goldberg and James Weaver are exec producing under their Point Grey umbrella; Neal Moritz, Vivian Cannon and Ori Marmur are exec producing for Original Film.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The envelopes have been opened for the Television Academy’s juried Emmy Awards, which are judged by peers in each category and presented in advance of the televised Primetime Emmys. Among the winners, Taylor Swift picked up an Emmy for AMEX Unstaged: Taylor Swift Experience, late-night funnymen dominated the Social TV Experience category with wins for Comedy Central’s @midnight With Chris Hardwick and NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and Cartoon Network dominated in Outstanding Achievement in Animation with four of the seven winners.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Director and TV personality Erik Anders Lang and producer Ryland Aldrich formed production company Pictures, Pictures which is based in LA and eyeing feature films, documentary series, branded content and commercials. Currently in preproduction is a documentary on recording artist Sia, who is married to Lang and will co-direct with him.
(Source: Cynopsis)
ABC Family is hitting the runway for a two-hour documentary, Baring It All: Inside New York Fashion Week. The doc, which began shooting this week, will offer behind-the-scenes access to the tastemakers behind one of the fashion industry’s biggest events of the year. Produced by IMG, the special is slated to air in October.
(Source: Cynopsis)
In recognition of the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March, TV One will air a two-hour special on Friday, October 9, 8-10p, presented by News One Now host and managing editor Roland S. Martin and featuring the premiere of the doc The Million Man March Story, followed by a News One Now roundtable discussion.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Performers including A Great Big World ft. Futuristic, OMI, Sir Mix-A-Lot and Hailee Steinfeld will take the stage for the fifth annual Streamys Awards, broadcast live on VH1 from the Hollywood Palladium on Thursday, September 17, at 10p. The Streamys honor the best in online video and the creators behind it. Exec producers are dick clark productions’ Allen Shapiro, Mike Mahan, Assaf Blecher and Ariel Elazar, as well as Streamy Awards founders Drew Baldwin and Joshua Cohen. Lee Rolontz and Lara Fried will executive produce for VH1.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Therapist Jill Dictrow goes undercover in an attempt to get real people to open up about the good, the bad, and the un-sexy when it comes to their personal lives in Sex In Public, debuting Friday, October 2, at 10p on TLC.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Food Network Star season 11 winner and former NFL player Eddie Jackson goes primetime on October 9 at 10:30p with the debut of his six-episode series BBQ Blitz. Jackson hits a new city in each ep and welcomes three of the best local grillers, smokers and fire-roasters to an outdoor cook-off for a grand prize of $5,000 and BBQ bragging rights.
(Source: Cynopsis)
On Tuesday, September 22, at 10p, Syfy will premiere Bazillion Dollar Club, a six-episode docu series set in Silicon Valley that follows software innovator and venture capitalist Dave McClure and Brady Forrest, the mind behind the hardware accelerator Highway1. Series is produced by Zero Point Production, with exec producers Lydia Tenaglia, Christopher Collins and Craig H. Shepherd.
(Source: Cynopsis)
UP will premiere original dance docu-series Dancin’ the Dream, on Saturday, September 12, at 8p, following eight young dancers, ranging in age from 9 to 15, as they strive to become tomorrow’s superstars. Crazy Legs Productions is helming the project.
(Source: Cynopsis)
It’s a second season for FYI’s spin-off docu-series Married at First Sight: The First Year. The network ordered seven one-hour episodes; season two will premiere Tuesday, October 13, at 9p, and follow the next steps of two couples who exchanged vows right after saying hello.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Hank Azaria is joining the cast of HBO Films Bernie Madoff movie Wizard of Lies. Azaria will star alongside Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer and Alessandro Nivola in the Barry Levinson-directed film about the disgraced financier. He’ll play Madoff’s right-hand man Frank Dipascali.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Tim Roth will star in the title role in 90-minute BBC One drama Reg. Created by Jimmy McGovern, Reg is based on the true story of ambulance paramedic Reg Keys, who opposed Tony Blair in the U.K.’s 2005 General Election on an anti-war ticket. LA Productions is overseeing production, with Colin McKeown and Donna Molloy producing.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Nathalie Kelley, star of Lifetime’s Un-Real, landed the female lead in Fox’s drama pilot reboot of the 1980 film Urban Cowboy, reports Deadline Hollywood. She’ll star opposite Alfonso Herrera; also cast in the pilot is Lindsey Gort of The Carrie Diaries.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Teri Hatcher will guest on CBS’ The Odd Couple in a multiple-episode arc during its upcoming second season as Charlotte, a smart, successful single mother who lives in Oscar Madison’s (Matthew Perry) building.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Mary Elizabeth Winstead landed the lead in CBS comic-horror drama BrainDead, slated for a summer 2016 bow.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Vivica A. Fox (Kill Bill) will play Cookie’s older sister in season two of Fox’s Empire, returning Wednesday, September 23 at 9p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The Sept. 7 season two premiere of VH1’s Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood delivered a 1.8 rating, A18-49 and 2.4 million total viewers, making it the No. 1 non-sports cable telecast for the day among A18-49 and Women 18-49. Combined with the evening’s encore airing at 11p, a total 3.6 million total viewers tuned in.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The recently completed fourth season of WE tv’s Braxton Family Values was the series’ most-watched season ever, delivering more than 1.5 million total viewers, up 8 percent over the previous season.
(Source: Cynopsis)
MOVIES
90 Minutes in Heaven -Hayden Christensen, Kate Bosworth, Dwight Yoakam, Michael W. Smith, Fred Thompson, Jason Kennedy, Elizabeth Hunter, Bobby Batson
The Visit – Olivia DeJonge, Ed Oxenbould, Deanna Dunagan, Peter McRobbie, Kathryn Hahn, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Samuel Stricken, Patch Darragh
Perfect Guy – Sanaa Lathan, Michael Ealy, Morris Chestnut, L. Scott Caldwell, Charles S. Dutton, Tess Harper, Kathryn Morris, Rutina Wesley
Sleeping With Other People (Limited Release) – Jason Sudeikis, Alison Brie, Adam Scott, Jason Mantzoukas, Amanda Peet, Andrea Savage, Natasha Lyonne, Katherine Waterston
Time Out of Mind (Limited Release) – Richard Gere, Ben Vereen, Jena Malone, Geraldine Hughes, Jeremy Strong, Yul Vazquez, Brian d’Arcy James, Lisa Datz
NYC STREET FAIRS
Friday September 11, 2015
Grand Central Festival Series #4 – on 43rd St. from Lexington to 3rd Ave.
Saturday September 12, 2015
6th Ave. Festival – from Houston to Waverly Place
Guardian Angels Fair – on Broadway from 47th to 57th St.
68th St. Annual Community Block Party – on 68th St. bet. Columbus & Broadway
Sunday September 13, 2015
52nd St. Jazz Fair – from 6th to 7th Ave.
3rd Ave. Community Benefit Festival – on 3rd Ave. from 66th to 86th St.
Riverside Skate Park Jam – 108th St. in Riverside Park
Myrtle Ave. Fair – from Forest to Wyckoff Ave.
Feast of San Gennaro in Little Italy is from Thursday September 10 – Sunday September 20, 2015
http://www.sangennaro.org/
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