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CELEBRITY NEWS: JULY 28, 2017
http://www.imdb.com/news/celebrity

Cher Lloyd (Pop Singer) – 24 years old
Soulja Boy (Rapper) – 27 years old
Shantel Jackson (Reality Star on “Nellyville”) – 33 years old
Mack Maine (Rapper) – 35 years old
Jacoby Shaddix (Papa Roach) – 41 years old
Afroman (Rapper) – 43 years old
Elizabeth Berkley (Saved By The Bell) – 45 years old
Lori Loughlin (Full House) – 53 years old
Georgia Engel (The Mary Tyler Moore Show) – 69 years old
Sally Struthers (All In The Family) – 70 years old
Jim Davis (Cartoonist who created Garfield) – 72 years old
Peter Cullen (voice of Optimus Prime in The Transformers) – 76 years old

FIRST LOOK
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ON TELEVISION (FRIDAY 7/28/17)
HBO: Room 104 (Premiere) at 11:30pm
PBS: Food Flirts (Premiere) at 10pm
UP: Date My Dad (Finale) at 9pm

(SATURDAY 7/29/17)
REELZ: Scandal Made Me Famous (Premiere) at 9pm
REELZ: The Kitty Kelley Files (Premiere) at 10pm
ABC: Still Star-Crossed (Finale) at 10pm
DIY: First Time Flippers (Finale) at 9pm
GREAT AMERICAN COUNTRY: Docked Out (Finale) at 9pm

(SUNDAY 7/30/17)
ADULT SWIM: Rick & Morty (Premiere) at 11:30pm
BBCA: Top Gear America (Premiere) at 8pm
DISCOVERY: Naked And Afraid (Premiere) at 10pm
GREAT AMERICAN COUNTRY: Flea Market Flip (Premiere) at 8pm
MTV: Teen Wolf (Premiere) at 8pm
NAT. GEO.: Wicked Tuna: Outer Banks (Premiere) at 10pm
TELEMUNDO: Gran Oportunidad (Premiere) at 9pm
TV ONE: Unsung: The Dramatics (Premiere) at 10pm
COMEDY: Kevin Hart Presents (Finale) at 11pm
PBS: Remember Me (Finale) at 10pm
SMITHSONIAN: American In Color (Finale) at 9pm

Discovery Communications stands alone in a bid for Scripps Networks Interactive. Viacom out of the picture, reports Reuters, and Discovery has entered exclusive talks for a deal that could be announced as early as net week. Scripps is reportedly looking to sell for a per-share acquisition price of over $90, in a deal would be valued at more than $12 billion. An agreement, however, is no sure thing – Discovery has held talks before to buy Scripps.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Krista Vernoff is checking back in to Grey’s Anatomy. Vernoff served as head writer and executive producer for the drama’s first seven seasons and will join the showrunning team of Shonda Rhimes and Betsy Beers for season 14. The move is part of an overall deal with ABC Studios and fills the spot vacated by Stacy McKee, the writer, EP and co-showrunner who is heading to Grey’s firefighter spinoff slated to bow in 2018.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins and male lead Chris Pine are reteaming for TNT drama One Day She’ll Darken. The news was announced at Turner ‘s TCA session on Thursday. The network issued a straight-to-series order to the six-episode hour-long show from author Sam Sheridan. Jenkins is set to direct the pilot and potentially other episodes, as well as serve as EP. Pine and Sheridan serve as EPs. The series is inspired by the autobiography of Fauna Hodel, a white woman who was given up by her teenage birth mother and raised by an African American family.
(Source: Cynopsis)

TNT and TBS president Kevin Reilly updated the status of new TNT drama Will and TBS comedy Wrecked, which debuted last summer. Reilly said “it’s looking good” for a second season renewal for the plane crash comedy. The future of young Shakespeare series, Will, however, is tentative after a soft linear premiere, with 633,000 total viewers and a 0.16 A18-49 rating in Live+SD. Reilly noted that Will is an expensive show to produce, and “I don’t know where we go from here….”
(Source: Cynopsis)

As for TBS’s Drop the Mic, which started as a rap face-off between James Corden and Anne Hathaway, the encounter “was one of those things that sort of blew up and we knew there was a series in it,” said Late Late Show and Drop the Mic EP Ben Winston at TCA. Dream guests? “I’d love to see Judi Dench versus Maggie Smith, dame and dame, going at it,” said Corden. Series premieres later this year.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Amy Sedaris was on hand to talk up truTV’s upcoming spoof At Home with Amy Sedaris, in which she’ll play multiple characters who sometimes offer homemaking tips. “I don’t know how much you’re actually going to learn,” said the actress/author/comedian. “But I’ll tell you, I’m doing my best.” Series premieres Tuesday, October 24 at 10:30p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

It’s TGIF all over again on Hulu starting September 29, when one-time ABC comedy block staples Full House, Family Matters, Step by Step, Perfect Strangers and Hangin’ with Mr. Cooper start streaming via an excusive SVOD deal with Warner Bros. Domestic Distribution. “These shows are more than just beloved hits, they were part of a cultural tradition to tune in every Friday night,” said Craig Erwich, Hulu’s SVP Content. “Now, it can be Friday any day of the week on Hulu.”
(Source: Cynopsis)

Hulu also announced that all episodes of Future Man will be released at once. “Who wants to wait for things? The world could end,” pointed out director and producer Seth Rogen. “The idea of having a serialized comedy that has a lot of plot and story coming out in one big chunk was an exciting prospect.” Comedy drops – all of it – on November 14.
(Source: Cynopsis)

HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm returns Sunday, October 1 after an extended break for season 9, with appearances by Elizabeth Banks, Ed Begley, Jr., Carrie Brownstein, Bryan Cranston, Lauren Graham, Jimmy Kimmel, Nick Offerman, Nasim Pedrad and Elizabeth Perkins. But actress Susie Essman  was focused on the room full of reporters. “You guys sit here all day doing this?” she marveled. “Jesus f—-ing Christ.”
(Source: Cynopsis)

Jennifer Aniston is heading back to the small screen. The Friends alum and Reese Witherspoon are set to star in a series about TV morning shows, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The untitled series, spearheaded by Michael Ellenberg, former HBO head of drama, is expected to be shopped to premium cable outlets like HBO and streamers like Netflix. Jay Carson (House of Cards) is attached to write the script.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Showtime picked up 1990s Boston crime drama pilot City on a Hill, executive produced by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon and written by Chuck MacLean (Boston Strangler). “Chuck wrote a pressure cooker of a script steeped in the tribal codes of a Shakespeare play – family, blood, betrayal, honor. His take on the ties that bind is handled with a deep honesty and insight,” said director and EP Gavin O’Connor (The Accountant).
(Source: Cynopsis)

Van Jones and Charles D. King’s Macro joined forces to produce Indivisible (wt), an hour long drama that takes a fresh approach to Washington dynamics as it follows an unlikely young couple who come to occupy the White House. Production begins in 2018.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Lifetime greenlit original movie Faith Under Fire, Based on the book Prepared for a Purpose: An Inspiring True Story of Faith,  Courage and Compassion in Crisis by Tuff and Alex Tresniowski. Toni Braxton will star in and EP the film, scheduled to bow in 2018.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Discovery’s Bering Sea Gold returns on Friday, August 11 at 9p….AMC’s fourth and final season of Halt and Catch Fire debuts with a 2-hour premiere on Saturday, August 19 at 9p….En Foco, an investigative series presented by journalist Neida Sandoval, bows Thursday, August 24 at 10p on ITN TV. Rebroadcasts air Saturdays at 8p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Smithsonian Channel airs The Lost Tapes: Son of Sam on Sunday, July 30 at 9p. “The Lost Tapes: Son of Sam plunges us back in time, so that we experience events unfold, unfiltered, as if we were there,” David Boyle, EVP of Programming and Production, tells Cynopsis. “There are no interviews, no voice-overs, no reactions; just raw footage. It’s mesmerizing… not simply because it’s about a notorious murderer, but because it evokes the dark, steamy New York of Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver – while conveying the indomitable spirit of New Yorkers and some of the larger-than-life personalities of the time, such as newsmen Jimmy Breslin and Geraldo Rivera. Director Tom Jennings does a masterful job. He doesn’t tell the audience what to think, he trusts us to draw our own conclusions.”
(Source: Cynopsis)

Wild Wednesdays return to Smithsonian Channel with two new specials that journey into the depths of exotic habitats. Honey Badger Grit bows August 9 at 8p; Cobra King arrives August 16 at 8p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

CNBC airs special episode The Profit: Marijuana Millions on Tuesday, August 8 at 10p, as entrepreneur Marcus Lemonis goes inside the booming drug industry.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Maria Bello nabbed a series regular role on the 15^th season of NCIS, bowing Tuesday, September 26 at 8p… Elizabeth Lail (Once Upon A Time) will star opposite Penn Badgley in Lifetime straight-to-series psychological thriller You…Dexter’s Desmond Harrington is boarding season 6 of Elementary on CBS… Garcelle Beauvais will recur on the sophomore season of E!’s The Arrangement.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Sister Circle, a live talk show hosted by a panel of four female hosts, premieres Monday, September 11 in 12 TEGNA markets and live nationally at 9a on TV One. It marks the first time TV One will carry original programming from a local station group.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Telemundo’s second season debut of Sin Senos Si Hay Paraiso delivered 1,835,000 total viewers, 965,000 A18-49 and 436,000 A18-34, according to Nielsen, ranking as the net’s best premiere at 9p in five years.
(Source: Cynopsis)

The premiere of Disney Channel’s Raven’s Home was the top live-action cable TV series premiere in two years among its targeted demographics, Kids 6-11 (1.3 million/5.3 rating) and Tweens 9-14 (1.5 million/6.1 rating), as well as Kids 2-11 (1.6 million/4.0 rating). It was also the #1 series premiere among all kid cable TV networks in Total Viewers (4.0 million) since Bunk’d (July 31, 2015).
(Source: Cynopsis)

MOVIES
Atomic Blonde – Charlize Theron, James McAvoy, Eddie Marsan, John Goodman, Toby Jones, James Faulkner, Roland Moller, Sofia Boutella
The Emoji Movie – T.J. Miller, James Corden, Anna Faris, Maya Rudolph, Steven Wright, Jennifer Coolidge, Patrick Stewart, Christina Aguilera
Detroit (Limited Release) – John Boyega, Will Poulter, Algee Smith, Jacob Latimore, Jason Mitchell, Hannah Murray, Kaitlyn Never, Jack Reynor
Brigsby Bear (Limited Release) – Kyle Mooney, Greg Kinnear, Matt Walsh, Michaela Watkins, Mark Hamill, Ryan Simpkins, Jane Adams, Andy Samberg
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power (Limited Release) – A Documentary by Al Gore

NYC STREET FAIRS
Friday July 28, 2017
Grand Central Food Block Party – on 41st St. from Lexington to 3rd Ave.
Panorama Music Festival – Randall’s Island http://splash.panorama.nyc/

Saturday July 29, 2017
Rally Healthfest with Kevin Hart – Nelson A. Rockefeller Park, Murray St. & River Terrace 10am – 2pm https://www.rallyhealth.com/event/rally-healthfest-new-york-2017/
Bleecker Street Festival – on Bleecker St. from Lafayette Street to Broadway
Festival of The Americas – on 6th Ave. from 42nd – 56th St.
Obstacle Race and Jungle Gym Fair – 3rd Ave. bet. 115th – 117th St. 11am – 3pm http://www.junglegymrace.com/
Hamilton Heights Weekend Walk – Hamilton Place from West 142nd – West 144th St. 12pm – 7pm
Summer Family Day and Colonial Ice Cream at Morris Jumel Mansion – 65 Jumel Terrace (off Edgecombe Ave.) 12pm – 2pm http://www.morrisjumel.org/upcoming-events/2017/7/29/family-day-colonial-ice-cream
Panorama Music Festival – Randall’s Island http://splash.panorama.nyc/

Sunday July 30, 2017
Union Square North Festival – Union Square North and 17th St.
Lexington Ave. Merchandise Fair – from 34th – 42nd St.
30th Ave. Astoria Festival (Queens) – on 30th Ave. from Steinway to 29th St.
Panorama Music Festival – Randall’s Island http://splash.panorama.nyc/

MEGA MILLIONS
Today’s Jackpot is $282 million

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POWERBALL
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CELEBRITY NEWS: JULY 27, 2017
http://www.imdb.com/news/celebrity

Alyvia Alan Lind (Young & The Restless/ Dolly Parton’s Coat of Many Colors) – 10 years old
Winnie Harlow (Model with Vitiligo) – 23 years old
Jordan Spieth (Golfer) – 24 years old
Tory Lanez (Rapper) – 25 years old
Taylor Schilling (Orange Is The New Black) – 33 years old
Kenny Wormald (Fear The Walking Dead/ “Footloose” remake) – 33 years old
Jonathan Rhys Meyers (Vikings/ The Tudors) – 40 years old
Alex Rodriguez (NY Yankees) – 42 years old
Maya Rudolph (NBC’s Maya & Marty/ “Bridesmaids”) – 45 years old
Kim Gravel (TV Show Host/ Kim Of Queens) – 46 years old
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game Of Thrones) – 47 years old
Triple H (Wrestler) – 48 years old
Julian McMahon (Nip/Tuck) – 49 years old
Jacqueline Walters (Married To Medicine) – 59 years old
Bill Engvall (Comedian) – 60 years old
Peggy Fleming (Olympic Gold Medalist Figure Skater) – 69 years old
Betty Thomas (Director/ Hill Street Blues) – 70 years old
Jerry Van Dyke (Coach) – 86 years old
Norman Lear (Producer, All In The Family, The Jeffersons) – 95 years old

FIRST LOOK
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ON TELEVISION (THURSDAY 7/27/17)
A&E: The First 48: Scared Silent (Premiere) at 10pm
LIFETIME: Date Night Live (Premiere) at 10pm
NBCSN: Grudge Race (Premiere) at 9pm
NBCSN: Journey To The Hammers (Premiere) at 11pm
REVOLT: Drink Champs (Premiere) at 10pm
LIFETIME: Married At First Sight (Finale) at 8pm
TRAVEL: Mysteries At The Museum (Finale) at 9pm

Viacom is reportedly making a $10.6 billion all-cash offer for Scripps Networks Interactive, according to Reuters, a proposal that could appeal to family members controlling Scripps looking for a cash deal. A deal with Discovery Communications would reportedly involve stock and cash. Over at Scripps, they’re not commenting on the headlines, just sticking to business as usual.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Fox 21 Television responded to Olivia de Havilland’s request that an LA court judge speed up proceedings in her lawsuit against Ryan Murphy, Fox 21 and FX over her portrayal in Feud: Bette and Joan. The 101-year-old is asking for a jury trial in November, “based on her unusually advanced age.” Saying they would “vigorously defend” the project, the studio argues, “The law on this is very clear: no permissions of any kind were required in order to tell the tale….By the logic of Ms. de Havilland’s attorneys, no producer would be able to tell any stories about famous people, living or dead, without their consent.” De Havilland may not be a fan, but Feud was nominated for 18 Emmys.
(Source: Cynopsis)

TEGNA’s NBC affiliate in Sacramento, CA, today announced a partnership with millennial-focused, streaming financial news net Cheddar that makes KXTV the first local network affiliate to incorporate Cheddar Local segments into news broadcasts. Twice daily segments will feature the day’s top business headlines before the market opens and after it closes.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Fusion TV joined more than 60 other companies and associations to launch the Creative Thread Foundation, a non-profit organization focused on breaking down barriers of entry for underrepresented content creators and those working behind the scenes in media. “We are committed to moving the dial when it comes to ensuring we see more accurate representation and diversity across the media and entertainment industries, but we know that it takes more than one company to make a difference,” said Henry Louis Gates Jr., who will serve as the Chair of the new Foundation.
(Source: Cynopsis)

OWN renewed Ava DuVernay’s hit drama Queen Sugar for season 3, and roped in DuVernay for a first-look deal with Harpo Films for TV and digital media. The season 2 premiere of Sugar in June delivered 2.3 million viewers, .7 among A18-49 and series high 2.09 in key OWN demo W25-54.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Animal Planet is promoting animal adoption with Puppy Bowl Presents: The Dog Bowl, a football competition for adult dogs living in shelters that will be paired with the net’s popular Puppy Bowl. Hosted by animal advocate Jill Rappaport, the one-hour special will (spoiler alert) have a happy ending: all the competing shelter dogs find homes.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Animal Planet also announced a premiere date for new series Rescue Dog to Super Dog. The unscripted show that matches people with disabilities with shelter-turned-service dogs launches Saturday, August 12 at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Comedy Central extended the first season of new late nighter The Jim Jefferies Show by 10 episodes. “I’m very grateful to Comedy Central for making our relationship more official,” said Jefferies. “Like all my relationships, I look forward to a few more months with Comedy Central before it starts crying outside of a bar at 2am. Or spray paints ‘liar’ on the side of my car.”
(Source: Cynopsis)

AMC is launching two viewer engagement initiatives. The Walking Dead Fan Rewards Club, coming in early September, will allow viewers to earn points toward virtual and actual goods by interacting with episodes, and a quarterly subscription box ($49.99/quarter) will include items like t-shirts, action figures and mugs. “Much has been written about the ‘Golden Age of Television,’ yet with more outlets for, and more consistent expressions of, passion for the content fan’s love, it has also become a ‘Golden Age of Fandom,’” said Charlie Collier, president of AMC, SundanceTV and AMC Studios. “The Fan Rewards Club and Subscription Box are two examples of extensions beyond the screen.”
(Source: Cynopsis)

The first 2 episodes of the fifth and final season of Showtime’s Episodes will be screened at the Paley Center for Media on August 16. Cast members, including Matt LeBlanc, as well as series creators will be on hand to watch and discuss. Show premieres on Showtime Sunday, August  20 at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

AXS TV is presenting an “All Hail the King” block of Elvis Presley films every Tuesday in August, starting the first of the month with Elvis: That’s the Way It Is at 10p. Wednesday, August 16, the 40^th anniversary of the singer’s death, will include a two-pack starting at 9p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

New GSN game show Snap Decision launches Monday, August 7 with 4 back-to-back episodes starting at 9p, moving to its regular Tuesday-at-9p slot on August 8. David Alan Grier (The Carmichael Show) hosts.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Lifetime’s Date Night Live premieres tonight at 10p, but everything doesn’t come up roses for this show’s contestants. “Dating culture has become really ‘gamified’ in recent years with apps and people developing new dating benchmarks, so having the opportunity to show the good, the bad and the awkward in a live, unadorned format is incredibly fresh,” says President and founder of Big Fish Entertainment, Dan Cesareo. “Lifetime gave us the perfect platform to spotlight the ‘real’ in reality.”
(Source: Cynopsis)

Tamron Hall may have left Today’s 9a hour early this year, but ID is keeping her busy. The journalist is back for season 5 of Deadline: Crime with Tamron Hall on Sunday, September 3 at 10p. Hall also recently inked a deal with Weinstein Television to develop a daytime talk show.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Another Today alum, Ann Curry, is taking on a new job: host of PBS’s We’ll Meet Again, reports Variety. The 6-parter featuring reunions of people separated by historical events outside their control is slated for a 2018 debut.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Sibongile Mlambo (Black Sails) landed a series regular role on upcoming Freeform drama Siren….Li Jun Li (Quantico) also won a series regular role, on season 2 of Fox drama The Exorcist….Britt Robertson (Girlboss) will star in upcoming ABC midseason legal drama For the People. She replaces Britne Oldford, who starred in the pilot….Jaylen Moore was upped from recurring to series regular for season 2 of History’s Six.
(Source: Cynopsis)

The 5-minute trailer for season 8 of AMC’s The Walking Dead, debuted at Comic-Con, has been viewed online over 31 million times in 4 days, breaking its own record.
(Source: Cynopsis)

El Rey Network’s “The People’s Network Showcase” returns with “Suspense”, 12 films released both on-air and on El Rey’s YouTube page. The special features 2 hours of short films and interviews with rising independent filmmakers from around the world.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Reelz has launched on Sling TV, as it prepares to premiere new series The Kitty Kelley Files (July 29), Broke and Famous (September 8), US Weekly’s Famous Feuds (September 8), It Happened Here (November 10) and The Stalker Files (November 10). “We’re committed to growing our viewership with Sling TV and expanding our distribution at every turn,” said John DeGarmo, EVP of distribution.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Add CNN and Turner Sports to subscribers of Nielsen’s Out-of-Home Reporting Service, measuring viewers like businesspeople watching TV in offices, and sports fans cheering teams in bars. ESPN was first to jump aboard, in April.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Food Network Star posted a .7 rating among A25-54 (630,000 IMP) on Sunday night, ranking 6^th among cable in the 9p time slot. On FoodNetwork.com, show content generated season-high traffic on Saturday, besting the previous season high by 15 percent.
(Source: Cynopsis)

The premiere of Descendants 2 across Disney Channel, ABC, Disney XD, Freeform, Lifetime and Lifetime Movies delivered a Live+3 audience of 21 million, up 61% from its Live+SD number.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Bravo’s Below Deck Mediterranean was the highest rated episode of the season to-date among P25-54 and total viewers, delivering 1 million P18-49 in Live+3 (up +5% versus the prior week’s episode), 1.3 million P25-54 (up +4%), and 2 million total viewers (up +5%). The Real Housewives of New York City delivered a season high among all key demos, earning 1.3 million  P18-49 (up +15% versus week ago), 1.6 million P25-54 (up +18%), and 2.7 million total viewers (up +13%).
(Source: Cynopsis)

ABC summer drama Somewhere Between dropped from 2.9 million total viewers and a .5 rating among A18-49 on its Monday opener to 1.8 million viewers and a .3 rating for its second episode on Tuesday.
(Source: Cynopsis)

ALLISON SWEENEY (DAYS OF OUR LIVES) GETS A RESTRAINING ORDER EXTENDED TO 3 YEARS AGAINST OBSESSED FAN
http://www.eonline.com/news/869396/abby-lee-miller-talks-maddie-ziegler-surviving-behind-bars-and-losing-everything-in-pre-prison-interview