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Matt Lauer, Meredith Vieira and Savannah Guthrie are set to host NBC’s coverage of the Opening Ceremony of the XXXI Olympic Games on Friday, August 5, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This year’s Games mark Lauer’s 11th Olympics for Today, and his fifth time working the primetime Opening Ceremony broadcast. It’s Vieira’s third Opening Ceremony for NBC, and Guthrie’s third Olympics for Today.
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Fox will not be proceeding with its series plans for Famous, the half-hour comedy created by writer/producer Ralph Farquhar (Real Husbands Of Hollywood) and Ty Hodges, reports Deadline. The project was given a 10-episode straight-to-series order earlier this month and was slated for June 12 premiere.
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The Peabody Awards Board of Jurors today announced this year’s Documentary and Education winners: Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (HBO), How to Dance in Ohio (HBO), Independent Lens: India’s Daughter (PBS), ISIS in Afghanistan (PBS/WGBH), Listen to Me Marlon (Showtime), Night Will Fall (HBO), POV: Don’t Tell Anyone (PBS), The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst (HBO) and What Happened, Miss Simone? (Netflix).
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Fox News Channel’s On The Record with Greta Van Susteren will host a Donald Trump town hall today (April 27), live from the Hilbert Circle Theatre in Indianapolis.
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Gordon Ramsay, chef, TV personality and producer, has cooked up Studio Ramsay, an indie production company solely owned by him, where he plans to create unscripted shows and develop talent. Studio Ramsay also will have a scripted division to focus on food-themed programming. Ramsay and his new company are in a joint venture with All3Media, with which he’s had a business relationship for six years.
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Kerry Washington signed an overall deal with ABC Studios, home of her hit series Scandal, and its cable/digital division ABC Signature Studios, for her new production company Simpson Street. The two-year pact will see Simpson Street, develop exclusive broadcast, cable and digital projects. Washington brings Sharla Sumpter Bridgett to the studio as development executive and producing partner at Simpson Street. Simpson Street’s first project, in the works before the ABC deal, was Confirmation, HBO’s movie about the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas scandal.
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The live broadcast of the Billboard Latin Music Awards will air on Telemundo on Thursday, April 28 at 8p. The Miami-based event, under the moniker “Billboard Duets,” will feature collaborative performances by Juan Gabriel & Alejandro Fernandez; Juanes & Juan Gabriel; Marco Antonio Solis & Marc Anthony; Yandel & Victor Manuelle and more. Following the awards show, hosted by Jessica Carrillo, the network will air Premios Billboard: Acceso VIP at 11:35p, a special that will give audiences an exclusive behind-the-scenes look of the ceremony.
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Discovery Life is saluting National Nurses Day on Friday, May 6, with the premiere of documentary The American Nurse at 8p followed by the series premiere of Emergency at 10p.The programming is part of the network’s weekend-long promo of nurse-themed content hosted by NY ER’s Nurse Katie Duke. The hour-long American Nurse explores some of the biggest issues facing the US – aging, war, poverty, prisons through the work and lives of five nurses. Emergency gives viewers behind-the-scenes access to emergency rooms while offering an intimate look at the lives of actual patients and the medical staff.
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American Heroes Channel is delving into the more secretive side of history this May with the return of Forbidden History for a third season on Sunday, May 1 at 10p. Then, new six-part series Inside Secret Societies kicks off Wednesday, May 4 at 10p, exploring some of the most secretive and dangerous global underworld societies.
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Hello Goodbye, which captures moments as everyday people arrive and depart from some of America’s largest airports, touches down on Travel Channel with two premiere episodes Monday, May 9 at 11p and 11:30p. Produced by Ellen DeGeneres’ A Very Good Production in association with Telepictures and Shed Media, series highlights surprising and exciting stories of marriage proposals, surprise greeters and big family reunions from travelers from all walks of life.
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Participant Media announced the second season of docu-series Secret Lives of Americans will premiere Friday, May 20 at 10p on Pivot. The 20-ep season is the largest order for any original series in Pivot’s history.
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Michael K. Williams (Boardwalk Empire) and Ivory Aquino have joined the cast of ABC’s event limited series When We Rise. Williams portrays African-American community organizer Ken Jones, and Aquino plays the role of transgender activist Cecilia Chung. Also joining the cast in part one of the seven-part series are guests Whoopi Goldberg, Rosie O’Donnell, Denis O’Hare and David Hyde Pierce.
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Bella Dayne (Plebs) is joining the cast of Channel 4 and AMC’s show Humans. The eight-episode second season is slated to premiere in the UK in late 2016 and in 2017 in the US.
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Ana De La Reguera (Jane the Virgin), Tom Savini (From Dusk Till Dawn movie) and Marko Zaror (Machete Kills) are in for the third season of El Rey Network’s From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series, the television reimagining of Robert Rodriguez’s 1996 movie.
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PBS added Brian F. O’Byrne, Patina Miller and Bryce Pinkham to the cast of the second season of Mercy Street, currently in production.
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The 100th Disney Channel Original Movie, Adventures in Babysitting, will premiere Friday, June 24 at 8p. The reimagining of the ‘80s film stars Sabrina Carpenter (Girl Meets World) and Sofia Carson (Descendants), and will be accompanied by the “100th DCOM Celebration.”
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Following the movie premiere, Disney Channel will debut live-action sitcom Bizaardvark Friday, June 24 at 9:45p. Series follows the antics of comedy duo Olivia Rodrigo (American Girl’s Grace Stirs Up Success) and Madison Hu (Best Friends Whenever) as vlogger besties. It was created by Kyle Stegina and Josh Lehrman, exec-produced by Eric Friedman (Austin & Ally) and co-exec-produced by Michael Curtis & Roger Schulman and Stegina & Lehrman.
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The New York State Broadcasters Hall of Fame has selected NBC 4 New York/WNBC Chief Meteorologist Janice Huff for its Class of 2016.
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