FIRST LOOK
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ON TELEVISION (FRIDAY 10/21/16)
CW: The Vampire Diaries (Premiere) at 8pm
CW: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (Premiere) at 9pm
PBS: Hamilton’s America (Premiere) at 9pm
TBS: eLeague (Premiere) at 10pm
TLC: A Haunting (Premiere) at 9pm
TLC: Kindred Spirits (Premiere) at 10pm
TLC: Ghosts of Shepherdstown (Finale) at 8pm
(SATURDAY 10/22/16)
BBC AMERICA: Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency (Premiere) at 9pm
FOOD NETWORK: Ayesha’s Homemade (Premiere) at 12pm
GREAT AMERICAN COUNTRY: Lake Life (Premiere) at 1pm
NICKELODEON: The Thundermans (Premiere) at 8pm
SPROUT: Dot. (Premiere) at 11am
NBC: Saturday Night Live – Host: Tom Hanks, Musical Guest: Lady Gaga at 11:30pm
DISCOVERY FAMILY CHANNEL: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (Finale) at 11am
(SUNDAY 10/23/16)
AMC: The Walking Dead (Premiere) at 9pm
AMC: Talking Dead (Premiere) at 10pm
DISCOVERY: Edge of Alaska (Premiere) at 10pm
E!: Keeping Up with The Kardashians (Premiere) at 9pm
Fox News Channel grabbed the biggest audience among all cable and broadcast networks Wednesday night, when more than 65 million viewers tuned in for the final debate showdown between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Preliminary Nielsen numbers show FNC averaged 11.3 million viewers, besting ABC’s 11 million, NBC’s 10.4 million, CBS’s 10.12 million, CNN’s 8.7 million, Fox broadcast’s 6.6 million, MSNBC’s 5.5 million, and Univision’s 1.2 million.
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Fusion’s first television collaboration with The Onion comes today in the form of a stylized, satirical election retrospective. The Onion Presents: The Iconic Images Of Election 2016 will look back on the crucial moments that shaped one of the wildest Presidential campaigns in U.S. history, through the lens of The Onion’s esteemed panel of political experts, journalists and historians. Special airs Friday, October 21 at 9p on Fusion.
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SundanceTV will feature iconic television series with a new daytime programming block, The Set, airing weekdays from 6a to 1p starting Monday, November 7. With a tagline of “Timeless, Timely, TV,” the block will feature M*A*S*H, All In The Family, The Bob Newhart Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and The Andy Griffith Show. The shows will air each day with back-to-back episodes in chronological order, starting with the pilots of all five series. To kick off the new programming block, SundanceTV will air a 48-hour marathon of M*A*S*H, beginning Sunday, November 6 at 6.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Time Warner shares had jumped 4.7 percent at deadline yesterday, after a Bloomberg report the company had held meetings with AT&T to discuss a potential merger.
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Former NYC police commissioner Bill Bratton won’t need to carry a gun for his new gig: NBC News’ senior law enforcement and national security analyst. Bratton, also executive chairman of Teneo Risk, was an analyst for NBC News and MSNBC in 2013, before his return to the NYPD in 2014. “The return of Bill Bratton brings a very relevant voice of authority to NBC News and MSNBC as we continue to cover counterterrorism and national security,” said NBC News president Deborah Turner. “Unfortunately this is an area of coverage that we have had to devote more resources to in recent years.”
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Viola Davis is on board to co-produce thriller Head Games for ABC. Series is from The Art of More creator Chuck Rose, Davis & Julius Tennon’s JuVee Productions and ABC Studios. Written by Rose and based on his book, Head Games follows a Park Avenue psychiatrist who’s approached by the government to come work for them as a spy, feeding them crucial intel on one of his patients.
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Enemy of The State, a sequel to the 1998 Tony Scott movie starring Will Smith and Gene Hackman, got a put pilot commitment from ABC. The project hails from the film’s producer, Jerry Bruckheimer, and ABC Studios, and is set two decades after the original film when an elusive NSA spy is charged with leaking classified intelligence and an idealistic female attorney must partner with a hawkish FBI agent to stop a global conspiracy. Series was written by Blackhat’s Morgan Davis Foehl.
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Investigation Discovery’s new series Married With Secrets profiles the dark and twisted psychological warfare of marriages (think Girl on a Train and Gone Girl) via dramatizations of surprising stories of seemingly perfect marriages that turned out to be nightmares. Series premieres Tuesday, October 25 at 10p.
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Univision’s newest novella, Vino el Amor, is premiering Tuesday, October 25 at 9p, replacing the network’s telenovela ‘res Veces Ana. Set in Napa Valley, Vino el Amor (Then Came Love) is a vintage tale about love and the modern challenges of an immigrant family.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Science Channel’s Outrageous Acts of Science, featuring out-of-this-world viral videos and a team of experts revealing the science behind the stunts, returns for a new season Wednesday, October 26 at 10p. The new episodes show mind-boggling displays of science in action while counting down the week’s top 20 videos.
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TBS has a treat for fans of its series People of Earth, returning the show for a new season on Halloween, Monday October 31 at 9p. The show will again center around skeptical journalist Ozzie Graham (Wyatt Cenac), who investigates a support group to write about the members’ supposed alien encounters.
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Discovery Life will debut Project Dad, a new series from Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, Tuesday, November 1 at 7p. Series follows celebrity dads Donnell Rawlings (comedian, Chappelle’s Show), Daniel Cosgrove (Days of Our Lives), and DJ Skribble as they step out of the spotlight and into the role of “mom” for 48 hours.
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Premiering on November 16 at 8p, BBC America’s Undercover is a bold new political thriller told through a family on the brink of destruction. The six-part series follows Maya Cobbina (Sophie Okonedo), a spirited barrister whose life gets turned upside down just as she’s about to become the first black Director of Public Prosecutions.
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A&E is gearing up for the holidays with a big helping of laughs, Wahlberg style. The season premiere of Wahlburgers debuts with back-to-back episodes on Wednesday, November 16 at 10p, continuing to chronicle the lives of the Wahlberg family including matriarch Alma and sons Mark, Donnie and Paul along with the rest of their family and friends. This season includes a visit with Mark on the Transformers: The Last Knight set, and a tour of London from 80s pop singer Rick Astley.
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TLC’s veteran series Little People, Big World returns Tuesday, November 22 at 8p with new challenges on the farm that rock the family dynamics with lasting effects.
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VH1 is prepping the runway. The network will debut the reboot of America’s Next Top Model on Monday, December 12 at 10p. The new season returns to the show’s roots in NY, featuring an all-female cast of aspiring supermodels, and is hosted by singer, actress and entrepreneur Rita Ora.
(Source: Cynopsis)
President Obama will sit down with Jimmy Kimmel on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live on Monday, October 24, just 15 days ahead of the upcoming election. The Commander in Chief last appeared on the late night show on March 12, 2015.
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Skiing star Tina Maze is joining Discovery-owned broadcaster Eurosport on the road to Pyeongchang for coverage of the winter Olympics in South Korea. She joins an Olympics lineup that includes triple Olympic gold medalist biathlete Michael Greis and Polish ski legend Adam Malysz.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Rank the Prank, a practical joke show that empowers kids by pairing them with renowned special effects experts to stage the most entertaining hidden-camera pranks, will debut October 24 on Nickelodeon. The 13-episode series, co-produced by Montreal-based Apartment 11, features a panel of Ranksters who rate which team executed the best prank, offering winners a chance to pull a “Mega Prank” on a target of their choosing.
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The words “Presidential Debate” clocked 53.2 million social media interactions across Facebook and Twitter from 16.9 million people in the US on Wednesday, according to Nielsen. Social media activity peaked between 10:15p and 10:29p, when 4.6 million interactions followed Donald Trump’s pronouncement that he would keep the American people in suspense over whether or not he’ll accept the outcome of the election.
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RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars continues to strike high notes for Logo. The series’ second season is breaking records as the most-viewed season of an original series on the network to date. This season is up 62 percent from Season 1. Host RuPaul returns Thursday, October 27 at 8p on Logo and VH1 when the All Star queens reunite to dish about the most shocking moments of the season.
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On Wednesday, October 19 ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live aired live after the third and final Presidential debate and matched its highest-rated late-night telecast on any night since last November (excluding the NBA Finals-led broadcasts in June) among A18-49 (0.7/4), according to Nielsen, edging out The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on CBS.
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MOVIES
Tyler Perry’s Boo! A Madea Halloween – Tyler Perry, Cassi Davis, Patrice Lovely, Lexy Panterra, Yousef Erakat, Andre Hall, Brock O’Hurn, Bella Thorne
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back – Tom Cruise, Cobie Smulders, Aldis Hodge, Danika Yarosh, Patrick Heusinger, Holt McCallany< Robert Knepper, Austin Hebert
Keeping Up with the Joneses – Zach Galifianakis, Isla Fisher, Jon Hamm, Gal Gadot, Patton Oswalt, Ming Zhao, Matt Walsh, Maribeth Monroe
Ouija: Origin of Evil – Elizabeth Reaser, Annalise Basso, Lulu Wilson, Henry Thomas, Parker Mack, Halle Charlton, Alexis G. Zall, Doug Jones
American Pastoral (Limited Release) – Ewan McGregor, Jennifer Connelly, Dakota Fanning, Valorie Curry, Uzo Aduba, Rupert Evans, Hannah Nordberg, Peter Riegert
In A Valley of Violence (Limited Release) – Ethan Hawke, John Travolta, Taissa Farmiga, James Ransone, Karen Gillian, Toby Huss, Tommy Nohilly, Larry Fessenden
King Cobra (Limited Release) – Garrett Clayton, Christian Slater, Alicia Silverstone, Molly Ringwald, Keegan Allen, James Franco, Sean Grandillo, Spencer Lofranco
NYC STREET FAIRS
Friday October 21, 2016
Martha Stewart American Made Summit – Martha Stewart Living Heaadquarters, 601 West 26th St. http://www.marthastewart.com/americanmade
New Life Expo – Hotel Pennsylvania, 401 7th Ave. at 33rd St. https://www.newlifeexpo.com/
Midtown East Fall Block Party – on 40th St. from Lexington to 3rd Ave.
Saturday October 22, 2016
Halloween Dog Parade – Tompkins Square Park, 111 East 7th St. bet. First Ave. & Ave. A. 12pm – 3pm http://www.tompkinssquaredogrun.com/halloween/
Martha Stewart American Made Summit – Martha Stewart Living Heaadquarters, 601 West 26th St. http://www.marthastewart.com/americanmade
New Life Expo – Hotel Pennsylvania, 401 7th Ave. at 33rd St. https://www.newlifeexpo.com/
USO Ave. of the Americas Autumnfest – on 6th Ave. from 42nd – 56th St.
Bookfest @ Bank Street – Bank Street College of Education, 610 West 112th St. 9am – 4pm http://bankstreet.edu/center-childrens-literature/bookfest/about-bookfest/
9’s Annual Pumpkin Patch Festival (Brooklyn) – 80 Underhill Ave. 11am – 3pm http://www.ps9brooklyn.org/news/2016/09/ps-9s-annual-pumpkin-patch-festival-1022/
Greenpoint Avenue Festival (Queens) – Greenpoint Ave. from Queens Blvd to 44th St.
Fall Festival (Queens) – Joseph P. Addabbo Memorial Park in Tudor Park 12pm – 4pm https://www.nycgovparks.org/events/2016/10/22/fall-festival
Sunday October 23, 2016
West 4th St. Festival – on West 4th St., from 6th Ave. to LaGuardia Place
Martha Stewart American Made Summit – Martha Stewart Living Heaadquarters, 601 West 26th St. http://www.marthastewart.com/americanmade
New Life Expo – Hotel Pennsylvania, 401 7th Ave. at 33rd St. https://www.newlifeexpo.com/
Dessert Goals Fest (Brooklyn) – 64 Dobbin St. Williamsburg Brooklyn http://www.dessertgoals.com/
Brooklyn Bacon Takedown (Brooklyn) – http://thetakedowns.com/
College Point Fair (Queens) – 14th Ave. to 20th Ave.
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