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ON TELEVISION (FRIDAY 10/7/16)
CW: iHeart Radio Music Festival – Night Two (Premiere) at 8pm
DISCOVERY LIFE: Untold Stories of The E.R. (Premiere) at 10pm
FUSE: Uproarious (Premiere) at 11pm
GSN: Hellevator (Premiere) at 9pm
SCIENCE: How It’s Made (Premiere) at 9pm
WE TV: Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars (Premiere) at 9pm
WE TV: My Life Is A Telenovela (Premiere) at 10pm
DIY: Texas Flip And Move (Finale) at 9pm
DISCOVERY: Bering Sea Gold (Finale) at 9pm
(SATURDAY 10/8/16)
AMERICAN HEROES CHANNEL: Ancient Assassins (Premiere) at 10pm
BBCA: The Graham Norton Show (Premiere) at 10pm
NBC: Saturday Night Live – Host: Lin-Manuel Miranda, Musical Guest: Twenty One Pilots (Premiere) at 11:30pm
(SUNDAY 10/9/16)
NBC, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, CNBC, CNN: Presidential Debate at 9pm
COOKING: Unwrapped 2.0 (Premiere) at 9pm
HBO: Divorce (Premiere) at 10pm
HBO: Insecure (Premiere) at 10:30pm
NAT. GEO. WILD: Mountain Gorilla: Mission Critical (Premiere) at 9pm and 10pm
TELEMUNDO: Don Francisco Te Invata (Premiere) at 10pm
HALLMARK CHANNEL: Chesapeake Shores
Filming in Savannah, GA for season 2 of WGN America’s Underground was canceled for Thursday and today amid concern about Hurricane Matthew. Shooting is scheduled to resume on Monday. Also postponed is ESPN’s LSU-Florida football game, which had been scheduled for Saturday in Gainesville, FL.
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Dr. Phil McGraw is TV’s top-paid host, according to Forbes Magazine, raking in $88 million in pre-tax earnings between June 2015-2016. And that was before Bull, the CBS drama based on McGraw’s early career as a trial consultant, for which he holds creator and executive producer credits, got off to a strong start. Ellen DeGeneres was runner-up, with $75 million, while Ryan Seacrest placed third, with $55 million.
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They’re with her: An ad directed by Lee Daniels, co-creator of Empire, features several of the Fox drama’s cast members. The pro-Hillary Clinton spot (“There’s only one person in this race who said Black Lives Matter”) aired during the show Wednesday night.
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The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers and its global arm, the International Society of Broadband Experts, announced the creation of an Internet of Things Working Group within the SCTE/ISBE Standards Group. “Even as it opens the door to new business opportunities, the massive number of Internet of Things devices that are being connected to our networks present unique reliability and security requirements,” said Chris Bastian, SVP and CTO of SCTE/ISBE. “Our new IoT working group is intended to bring together network operators and vendors to determine how best to standardize and operationalize these new services.”
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The Nonfiction Producers Association, founded in 2014, has broadened its criteria for membership, establishing three tiers of participation for production companies and producers, now based on company size and volume of work, as well as adding a new “Associate” class of membership for vendors and service providers to the industry. The changes were made to “make it easier for more segments of the business to join, including emerging talent with new skill sets and fresh points of view,” said NPA GM John Ford.
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Monica Macer (Nashville) has joined OWN drama Queen Sugar as exec producer and showrunner for season 2. Macer fills the gap left by season one co-showrunner Ava DuVernay, busy prepping for Disney film A Wrinkle in Time.
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Rapper Shawn “Jay Z” Carter and Weinstein Television are teaming for TIME: The Kalief Browder Story. The six-part docu-series, slated to premiere on Spike TV in January, tells the story of the high school student who was a tragic victim of the New York criminal justice system.
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Fairy tale drama Freaks of the Heartland was put in development at MTV. Based on the Dark Horse Comics graphic novel by Steve Niles, the show comes from Dark Horse Entertainment and Universal Cable Prods.
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Nickelodeon is celebrating the 30th anniversary of game show Double Dare with a special premiering Wednesday, November 23 at 9p on Nick at Nite. The half hour will feature original host Marc Summers, along with vintage footage, and new (still messy) games. Double Dare aired from 1986-1993. The holiday weekend also includes the premiere of original TV movie Legends of the Hidden Temple, inspired by the 90s game show, on Saturday, November 26 at 8p.
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New episodes of Supercar Superbuild are raring to go on Smithsonian Channel on Sunday, October 30 at 9p. Series focuses on the design teams and performances of rare driving machines. First up: Pagani, with a price tag of $1.5 million.
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Diane Keaton will receive the 45th AFI Life Achievement Award at a Gala Tribute in June 2017. A special marking the occasion will air for the fifth year on TNT, with encore presentations on sister net Turner Classic Movies.
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This morning’s broadcast of TV One’s NewsOne Now will be devoted to actor and humanitarian Harry Belafonte’s “Many Rivers to Cross” music festival. The event, which took place October 1 and 2 in Atlanta, is dedicated to racial healing. Show time is 7-8a.
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getTV’s “Horror Icons” Halloween event airs Sundays in October at 10p. October 9 brings Peter Lorre: The Master of Menace, followed by The Face Behind the Mask (deformed watchmaker with an axe to grind) at 11p.
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Mexican hit movie Casese Quien Pueda (Marry If You Can) premieres in the U.S. on pay-TV on Cinelatino Sunday, October 9 at 9p and 11p. The romantic comedy was the number one film upon its 2014 release in Mexico.
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Season 2 of Years of Living Dangerously premieres on Nat Geo on a special date and time, Sunday, October 30 at 8p, moving to Wednesdays at 10p on November 2. Lineup of correspondents traveling the globe to raise awareness of climate change includes Jack Black, Gisele Bundchen, Ty Burrell, Don Cheadle, America Ferrera, Thomas Friedman, Joshua Jackson, David Letterman, Aasif Mandvi, Nikki Reed, executive producer Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ian Somerhalder, Cecily Strong, Sigourney Weaver and Bradley Whitford.
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Discovery is back on the Edge of Alaska starting Sunday, October 23 at 10p. New season reveals the dangerous force behind a once-tight knit community’s tensions.
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Outdaughtered has a two-hour season 2 premiere on Tuesday, November 15 at 9p on TLC, before settling into its regular 10p slot the following week. Series features the only all-female set of quintuplets in the country. And now they’re walking.
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Freeform gave the green light for a third season of Stitchers. Among A18-49, the drama about a young woman recruited to hack into the minds of the recently deceased is the net’s number 2 new series of the past two seasons, behind Shadowhunters.
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Jim Belushi (According to Jim) will co-star opposite Taran Killam in Showtime comedy pilot Mating (wt), about a recently divorced man (Killam) unprepared for single life.
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Marin Hinkle (Two and a Half Men) landed a co-starring role in Amazon dramedy pilot The Marvelous Mrs. Maiesel, opposite Rachel Brosnahan, Tony Shaloub and Michael Zegen.
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Alex Roe (The 5th Wave) and Fola Evans-Akingbola (An American Exorcism) have joined the cast of Freeform pilot The Deep (wt), now in production in Vancouver.
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Busy Philipps (Cougar Town) will guest on CBS’s The Odd Couple as a love interest for Felix, reports EW. Season three bows Monday, October 17 at 9:30p.
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Also from EW: Lea Thompson (Switched at Birth) nabbed the role of Paige’s mother on Scorpion, which could become recurring. CBS drama airs Mondays at 10p.
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Elisabeth Rohm (The Last Ship) will recur in season 2 of Netlflix comedy Flaked, starring Will Arnett.
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Factor in Live+3 viewing, and the season 42 premiere of NBC’s Saturday Night Live was the show’s most-watched bow in 22 years, growing from 8.3 million to 11.8 million viewers.
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The MLB game on ESPN Wednesday (sorry, Mets fans) was the highest-rated Wild Card match-up since the play-in games began in 2012, scoring a 5.8 overnight rating.
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Season 2 of Bounce’s In the Cut delivered over 5.8 million viewers, up 64 percent versus season one, and 3.9 million homes, up 58 percent, across all plays. The season 4 premiere telecasts of time slot replacement Family Time were seen by 954,000 unduplicated viewers, an increase of 27 percent versus the season 3 launch.
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Monday’s VP candidate debate between Democrat Tim Kaine and Republican Mike Pence delivered 37.4 million viewers, the lowest for a VP debate since 2000. NBC grabbed the biggest group of debate viewers (7.03 million), followed by CBS (6.46 million), ABC (6.15 million), Fox News (6.08 million), CNN (4.17 million), MSNBC (3.13 million), Fox (2.21 million) and Fox Business Network (392,000). Last week’s presidential debate totaled a record 84 million.
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The season five premiere of CW’s Arrow on Wednesday drew 1.9 million viewers and .7 A18-49, down 30 percent and 36 percent, respectively, from last year’s debut. The launch of new drama Frequency delivered 1.4 million viewers and .4 in the demo.
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Week 3 of ABC’s Speechless matched its 1.8 rating among A18-49 for week 2, which had dipped just 10 percent from the comedy’s launch.
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MOVIES
The Birth Of A Nation – Nate Parker, Armie hammer, Mark Boone Junior, Colman Domingo Aunjanue Ellis, Dwight Henry, Aja Naomi King, Esther Scott
The Girl On The Train – Emily Blunt, Haley Bennett, Rebecca Ferguson, Justin Theroux, Luke Evans, Edgar Ramirez, Laura Prepon, Allison Janney
Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life – Griffin Gluck, Lauren Graham, Rob Riggle, Thomas Barbusca, Andy Daly, Adam Pally, Retta, Efren Ramirez
NYC STREET FAIRS
Friday October 7, 2016
The Big Chocolate Show – Terminal Stores, Waterfront Building, 269 11th Ave. at 28th St. https://www.facebook.com/TBCSNYC
Comic Con – Jacob Javits Center, 34th St. & 12th Ave. http://www.newyorkcomiccon.com/
Saturday October 8, 2016
Bleecker St. Festival – on Bleecker St. from Lafayette St. to Broadway
he Big Chocolate Show – Terminal Stores, Waterfront Building, 269 11th Ave. at 28th St. https://www.facebook.com/TBCSNYC
Comic Con – Jacob Javits Center, 34th St. & 12th Ave. http://www.newyorkcomiccon.com/
Lexington Ave. Fair – on Lexington Ave. from 42nd – 57th St.
The Ice Skating Rink at Rockefeller Center Opens for the 2016 – 2017 Season – 48th – 51st bet. 5th & 6th Ave. https://www.rockefellercenter.com/attractions/the-rink-at-rockefeller-center/
24th Annual Upper Broadway Fall Festival – on Broadway from 110th St. – 116th St. 10am – 6pm
Harlem Festival – A. Philip Randolph Square, St, Nicholas Ave. bet. 116th St. and 117th St. 11am – 4pm https://www.eventbrite.com/e/harlem-harvest-festival-tickets-27653434166?aff=es2
Brooklyn Panamanian Pre-Independence Parade (Brooklyn) – Franklin Ave. & Pacific St. http://www.dicpny.org/events.html
Brooklyn Columbus Day Parade (Brooklyn) – 18th Ave. bet. 60th St. – 84th St. http://www.fiaobrooklyn.org/news/columbus_parade/
Rock ’N Roll Half Marathon (Brooklyn) – 13.1 miles through Brooklyn http://www.runrocknroll.com/brooklyn/
Kings County Fiber Festival (Brooklyn) – Old Stone House & Washington Park, 336 Third St. 10am – 1pm http://www.kingscountyfiberfestival.org/
Halloween Family Fun Day and Movie Night (Brooklyn) – Wingate Park, Brooklyn Ave. and Rutland Road 11am – 10pm https://www.nycgovparks.org/events/2016/10/08/friends-of-wingate-parks-5th-annual-halloween-family-fun-day
Fall Into Fall Harvest Festival (Bronx) – Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum, 895 Shore Road, Pelham Bay Park http://www.bartowpellmansionmuseum.org/events/calendar.php
Woodside Festival (Queens) – on Woodside Ave. from 65th Place to Roosevelt Ave.
Deluxe Pumpkin Festival/Street Fair (Queens) – All Saints Church at 11am, 43-12 46th St. http://www.jacksonheightslife.com/community/index.php?topic=15461.0
Queens Columbus Day Parade (Queens) – 34th Ave. bet. 35th & 36th St. 12pm – 1:30pm http://www1.nyc.gov/events/columbus-day–parade/69422/1
Fold Music Festival (Queens) – Forest Hills Stadium, 1 Tennis Place 5pm with Nile Rodgers, Earth Wind & Fire, Bette Midler and more. http://foldfestival.com/
Queens Night Market (Queens) – New York Hall Of Science in Flushing Meadows Corona Park http://queensnightmarket.com/
Staten Island Walk To End Alzheimer’s (Staten Island) – Clove Lakes Park, 1150 Clove Road at 10am http://act.alz.org/site/TR/Walk2016/NY-NewYorkCity?pg=entry&fr_id=9188
Annual Greenbelt Pumpkin Festival (Staten Island) – Willowbrook Park, eton Place off Richmond Ave. 12pm – 4pm http://sigreenbelt.org/mc-events/annual-greenbelt-pumpkin-festival-12-noon-4pm-in-willowbrook-park/?mc_id=1397
Sunday October 9, 2016
World Trade Center Block Party – on Liberty St. from Broadway to Trinity Pl.
6th Ave. Festival – on 6th Ave. from 8th St. – 14th St.
Jefferson Market Garden Children’s Harvest Festival – Greenwich Ave. bet. 6th Ave. and West 10th St. 11am – 2pm http://www.jeffersonmarketgarden.org/2016-community-events-1
The Big Chocolate Show – Terminal Stores, Waterfront Building, 269 11th Ave. at 28th St. https://www.facebook.com/TBCSNYC
Comic Con – Jacob Javits Center, 34th St. & 12th Ave. http://www.newyorkcomiccon.com/
Halloween Harvest Dog Parade & Costume Contest at Luna Park (Brooklyn) – Luna Park, Coney Island, Brooklyn 12pm – 5pm http://coneyislandfunguide.com/Events/Halloween-Harvest-Dog-Parade-Costume-Contest-at-Luna-Park_10_9_2016-4939.htm
Oktoberfest (Brooklyn) – Aviator Sports 2159 Flatbush Ave. 12pm – 4pm http://www.aviatorsports.com/events/events-calendar/oktoberfest/
The Annual Narrows Botanical Harvest Festival (Brooklyn) – Shore Road bet. Bay Ridge Ave. and 72nd St. 12pm – 5pm http://www.narrowsbg.org/#!events/c1po1
Bronx Columbus Day Parade (Bronx) – Morris Park Ave. to Rhinelander Ave. http://www.uft.org/events/bronx-columbus-day-parade
Queens Night Market (Queens) – New York Hall Of Science in Flushing Meadows Corona Park http://queensnightmarket.com/
Steinway Street Fair (Queens) – 25th Ave. to 28th Ave.
Monday October 10, 2016
Columbus Day Festival – on Broadway from Liberty St. to Battery Pl.
Columbus Day Parade – on 5th Ave. from 44th to 72nd St. http://www.columbuscitizensfd.org/columbus-celebration/columbus_parade.html
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