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ON TELEVISION (FRIDAY 7/15/16)
DYI: Texas Flip and Move (Premiere) at 9pm
NICKTOONS: Soccer Superstar (Premiere) at 10pm
PBS: Charlie Rose – The Week (Premiere) at 8:30pm
DESCENDANTS: Wicked World (Finale) at 8pm
ID: I (Almost) Got Away With It (Finale) at 9pm
(SATURDAY 7/16/16)
AHC: Apocalypse: WWI (Premiere) at 10pm
ANIMAL PLANET: Dr. Dee: Alaska Vet (Premiere) at 8pm
DIY: Renovation Realities (Premiere) at 9pm
HGTV: House Hunters Renovation (Premiere) at 10pm
NAT. GEO. WILD: The Incredible Dr. Pol (Premiere) at 9pm
TRAVEL: Guiding Alaska (Premiere) at 2pm
(SUNDAY 7/17/16)
FOOD: Mealin’ & Dealin’ (Premiere) at 4:30pm
NICK: Kids’ Choice Sports 2016 at 8pm
HBO: Ballers (Premiere) at 10pm
HBO: Vice Principals (Premiere) at 10:30p
SMITHSONIAN CHANNEL: Mighty Ships (Premiere) at 8pm
SMITHSONIAN CHANNEL: Hell Below (Premiere) at 9pm
STARZ: Power (Premiere) at 9pm
TLC: My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding (Premiere) at 10pm
TRAVEL: Life’s A Beach (Premiere) at 11pm
VH1: Basketball Wives (Premiere) at 9pm
VH1: VH1 Live! (Premiere) at 10pm
VH1: Shaunie’s Home Court (Premiere) at 10:30pm
AMC: Ride with Norman Reedus (Finale) at 10pm
DESTINATION AMERICA: Ghosts of Shepherdstown (Finale) at 10pm
DIY: Barnwood Builders (Finale) at 9pm
Jose Diaz-Balart joins Saturday’s NBC Nightly News as full-time anchor starting August 6. Diaz-Balart, who will continue anchoring Telemundo’s Noticiero Telemundo and Enfoque con Jose Diaz-Balart, had been rotating in the position since November. “This is a significant moment for the broadcast and a true testament to Jose’s many talents,” said Janelle Rodriguez, SVP editorial, NBC News. “He will now hold the historic distinction of occupying preeminent anchor positions on two major broadcast networks in two languages.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
Disjointed landed a 20-episode straight-to-series order from Netflix. Kathy Bates plays the owner of a cannabis dispensary in the workplace comedy written and exec produced by Chuck Lorre and former Daily Show head writer David Javerbaum.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’s live broadcasts during the RNC and DNC political conventions (or “The 2016 Trumpublican Donational Conventrump Starring Donald Trump as the Republican Party* *May Contain Traces of Republican,” and “The 2016 Democratic National Convincing A Technically Historic Event: Death. Taxes. Hillary,” in Colbert-speak) will include guests Senator Elizabeth Warren, Jeff Daniels, Allison Janney, Keegan-Michael Key, John Oliver and former U.S. Congressman Anthony Weiner, among others. The shows will be broadcast from NYC with on-site teams in Cleveland and Philadelphia.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Smithsonian Channel digs for dirt in programming block “Behind the Lost Empires.” Using new technology in a “golden age of archaeology,” specials present new discoveries for five consecutive Mondays, starting August 8 at 8p with Pompeii: The Dead Speak.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Hulu’s Difficult People, rolling out Tuesdays, boasts a lot of famous people, too. While Tina Fey and Nathan Lane were among the guest stars July 12, upcoming big names include Ken Burns, Lin Manuel Miranda, Debby Harry and Julianne Moore, among others. Series from Amy Poehler stars creator Julie Klausner and Billy Eichner as two struggling, jaded comedians.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Discovery Family Channel’s “Beethoven Week,” featuring movies from the family-friendly Beethoven franchise, runs from Sunday, August 7 at 9p through Friday, August 12 at 7p. Kicking things off, of course, is the installment about the disaster-prone St. Bernard that started it all.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Next week’s specials on TLC include Girls Who Don’t Age, about three girls who can’t seem to get past todderdom on Monday, July 18 at 9p, followed by kids with a different problem, Tallest Teens, at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Taylor Hicks, winner of season 5 of American Idol, will take part in a Facebook Live chat on INSP’s Facebook page Saturday, July 16 at 3p. During the chat, Hicks will announce the premiere date of State Plate, the travel/food show he’s hosting for INSP (spoiler alert: Friday, October 21), as well as a sweepstakes that will grant the winner a trip for two to see the singer’s upcoming concert in Memphis.
(Source: Cynopsis)
TLC’s A Baby Story: Live shows unedited, real-time views (gulp) of a live birth using the Facebook Live platform. Beginning Saturday, July 9, TLCme’s Facebook page began broadcasting the network’s second live birth; the nine videos have since garnered 279,969views and reached more than 3 million users on Facebook. TLC will air a linear companion of the live stream on Tuesday, July 19 at 7:54p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
MOVIES
Ghostbusters – Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones, Kate McKinnon, Charles Dance, Michael Kenneth Williams, Chris Hemsworth, Neil Casey
The Infiltrator – Bryan Cranston, Diane Kruger, John Leguizamo, amy Ryan, Jason Isaacs, Joseph Gilgun, Olympia Dukakis, Yul Vazquez
Cafe Society (Limited Release) – Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Steve Carell, Blake Lively, Corey Stoll, Parker Posey, Jeannie Berlin, Ken Stott
Equals (Limited Release) – Kristen Stewart Nicholas Hoult, Guy Pearce, Bel Powley, Jacki Weaver, Scott Lawrence, Toby Huss, Kate Lyn Shell
NYC STREET FAIRS
Friday July 15, 2016
Pop Up Green Market Summer Fridays at Union Square – Union Square Greenmarket on 17th St. bet. Park & Broadway http://www.grownyc.org/summerfridays
Celebrate Flat Iron Chefs – Madison Square Park on 23rd St. bet. 5th & Madison Ave. https://www.madisonsquarepark.org/mad-sq-food
Grand Central Food Festival – on 43rd St. from Lexington to 3rd Ave. 10am – 6pm
Empire State Tattoo Expo – New York Hilton Midtown 1335 6th Ave. (bet. 53rd & 54th St.) http://www.empirestatetattooexpo.com/
Saturday July 16, 2016
P.A.L. Festival on University Place from Waverly Pl. to 14th St.
Bastille Day – Brookfield Place 230 Vesey St. 11am – 6pm http://www.artsbrookfield.com/event/bastille-day-2/
6th Ave. Festival – on 6th Ave. from 14 to 23rd St.
Uncorked: NY Wine Festival – Metropolitan Pavilion 125 West 18th St. bet. 6th and 7th Ave. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/uncorked-ny-wine-festival-tickets-24938014272?aff=ebrowse
Empire State Tattoo Expo – New York Hilton Midtown 1335 6th Ave. (bet. 53rd & 54th St.) http://www.empirestatetattooexpo.com/
New York Record & CD Show – Holiday Inn 440 West 57th St. (bet. 9th & 10th Ave.) 10 am – 4pm http://www.showsandexpos.com/
Harlem Book Fair – Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 515 Lenox Ave. at West 135th St. 11am – 6pm http://www.harlembookfair.com/
Weekend Walks: Hamilton Heights Sugar Hill Cultural Festival – 142nd St. and Amsterdam Ave. to 144th St. and Hamilton Place 11am – 6:30pm http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/weekendwalks/html/find/find.shtml#manhattan
Sunday July 17, 2016
Rubin Museum Block Party – 150 West 17th St. bet. 6th & 7th Ave.
52nd St. Fair – on 52nd St. from 6th to 7th Ave. 1pm – 4pm http://rubinmuseum.org/events/event/block-party-2016
Patron Fest Summer Edition – Stage 48, 605 West 48th St. 4pm – 10pm http://www.eventbrite.com/e/patron-fest-summer-edition-tickets-24012495019?aff=ebrowse
Empire State Tattoo Expo – New York Hilton Midtown 1335 6th Ave. (bet. 53rd & 54th St.) http://www.empirestatetattooexpo.com/
Broadway Movie Day Festival – on Broadway from 47th to 57th St.
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