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The CW Network set its summer 2018 premiere dates, including new scripted series and returning shows. The network’s summer trio of Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Penn & Teller: Fool Us and Masters of Illusion will return with new episodes on June 4, 25 and 29, respectively. Additionally, the network’s two new summer dramas will debut on consecutive nights in July with new 10-ep fantasy adventure series The Outpost premiering Tuesday, July 10 at 8p and investigative legal drama Burden of Truth premiering Wednesday, July 11 at 8p. Docu-series My Last Days, hosted and exec produced by Jane the Virgin’s Justin Baldoni, returns for its second installment airing Friday, May 25, Friday, June 1 and Friday, June 8. Summer finales include Life Sentence on Friday, June 15 and Supergirl on Monday, June 18. New eps of The Originals and The 100 will also continue to air throughout the summer.
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HBO’s Insecure, Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Netflix’s One Day at a Time are among the contenders in the 77th annual Peabody Awards. The ceremony will be hosted by Hasan Minhaj of The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, who is nominated for his Netflix comedy special. Event takes place May 19 in NY.
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Will Bruce Willis get the last laugh? The TV and film star is the target of Comedy Central’s annual roast, which will take place in LA and air at a later date. “This ain’t the first time I’ll be tied to a chair and held hostage by a group of humorless —holes for a couple hours,” Willis teased in a promo.
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Ricky Martin will return as a special guest at this year’s GLAAD Media Awards, which will be televised exclusively on Logo on April 18 at 8p.
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Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt stars Jane Krakowski and Tituss Burgess will announce the noms for the 63rd annual Drama Desk Awards on Thursday, April 26. The ceremony will be hosted by Michael Urie on Sunday, June 3 in NY.
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Former Silicon Valley star T.J. Miller reportedly has been charged with phoning in a false bomb threat from an Amtrak train. He was arrested by federal authorities Monday night at LaGuardia Airport.
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Apple came out on top in the bidding war for a TV series adaptation of Foundation, based on the Isaac Asimov sci-fi trilogy. The project hails from Skydance Television and has been put in development for straight-to-series. David S. Goyer and Josh Friedman will executive produce and show-run. Skydance’s David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Marcy Ross will also exec produce.
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Paramount Network has put in development missing-person thriller series I Know Who You Are. Based on the 2017 Spanish limited series Se Quien Eres, the series is from The Last Ship co-creator Steven Kane, director David Semel (Star Trek: Discovery) and CBS TV Studios.
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John Walsh will topline real-time investigation series In Pursuit for Investigation Discovery. Series, which engages ID’s audience to aid in the pursuit of justice, is produced by Zero Point Zero and is slated to premiere in Q1 2019.
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AMC greenlit supernatural horror series NOS4A2, based on the novel of the same name by Joe Hill, who will also executive produce. Series follows a young, working class artist who discovers she has a supernatural ability to track the seemingly immortal and heinous Charlie Manx. Jami O’Brien (Fear The Walking Dead, Hell On Wheels) created the show and will serve as showrunner and executive producer along with executive producer Lauren Corrao, co-president of Tornante Television.
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Amazon is in talks to develop a series about Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Titled Sandstorm, the project will be written by Carter Harris (Bloodline) will and directed by Mohamed Diab (Clash). It’s a co-production between Anonymous Content and O3 Productions.
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Universal Kids will debut its first original comedy, Greenfields, produced by Six Eleven Media in association with DHX Television’s Family Channel in Canada, in fall 2018. Live-action series consists of 20 half-hour episodes.
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Original MythBuster Adam Savage returns to host and exec produce MythBusters Jr., a new series that will give six kids a chance to show off their ingenuity and STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and math) skills. The 10-episode series will debut on Science Channel in the Q4 2018.
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Paramount Network is looking to capitalize on the buzz around the Roseanne reboot by adding classic episodes of the series to its weekday lineup beginning Tuesday, April 17. Classic Roseanne will debut with a marathon from 9a-8p, and beginning Wednesday, April 18, four half-hour classic eps will run each weekday from 4-6p.
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A Dangerous Son, a documentary from director Liz Garbus about children who are suffering with serious mental illness and the parents who try to obtain treatment in the face of limited resources, will debut on HBO on Monday, May 7.
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Discovery launched its first Shark Week promo last night during the season premiere of Deadliest Catch; its 30th anniversary begins July 22.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg yesterday had the first of his hearings before Congress in the wake of the data breach scandal that exposed data from 89 million users. Zuckerberg testified before a joint session of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary and Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Among toplines at deadline: Zuckerberg confirmed Facebook is working with special counsel Robert Mueller in his investigation into possible collusion in the US presidential election; Zuckerberg does not believe Facebook has a monopoly; Zuckerberg claimed FB doesn’t sell data to advertisers, but rather “We allow advertisers to tell us who they want to reach and we do the placement.”
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Broadcaster Tegna and Snap are partnering to bring public Snapchat stories to its local news programs. Tegna owns stations in 39 US markets.
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Ahead of the season 2 premiere, HBO’s Westworld added cast members Tao Okamoto (Man in the High Castle), Julia Jones (Wind River), Martin Sensmeir (Magnificent Seven), Kiki Sukezane (Heroes: Reborn) and Zahn McClarnon (The Son) in recurring roles.
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Also in: Aleksa Palladino (Halt and Catch Fire) will recur on CBS All Access’ thriller series $1… Lois Robbins has a recurring role on the upcoming fifth season of TV Land’s Younger… Lili Simmons (Ray Donovan), Hannah Anderson (New Mutants) and Lee Tergesen (Oz) scored series regular roles in The Purge for USA Network and Syfy.
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Epix announced that undefeated boxing champ Andre “Son of God” Ward (who’s reprising his role in Creed II this November) will host The Contender. Additionally, Freddie Roach and Naazim Richardson join the show as trainers.
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MTV’s Jersey Shore revival is smoking hot. Last week’s debut of Jersey Shore Family Vacation drew a 4.2 rating among MTV’s core demo of A18-34 in Live+3, making it the network’s highest rated series premiere ever in Live+3.
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In syndication, the week ending April 1 was an explosive one for Dr. Phil, although many other daytime shows fizzled with the notable exception of syndication champion Judge Judy. Dr. Phil (3.2 Live+ Same Day national Nielsen rating, up 7% from the week before), which has finished first in the category for 82 straight weeks with just one tie, was the sole top 10 talk show in positive territory, widening its lead among the yakkers to more than a full point despite being in reruns for part of the week. Live with Kelly and Ryan (2.1, down 9%) aired only repackaged episodes all week but remained the second highest talk show for the fourth consecutive week. Ellen DeGeneres (new season low 1.8, down 18%) was also in repeats, and Steve Harvey’s Steve (1.3, steady), also in repeats, was one of the few top daytime shows able to avoid a decline, tying Wendy Williams (1.3, down 7%) for fifth place in talk.
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Hallmark Channel’s annual programming “Spring Fever” programming event culminated Saturday night with the world premiere of Once Upon a Prince, which marked the most-watched and highest-rated cable program of the day, excluding news and sports with a live plus same day HH rating of 2.4, 2.6 million Total Viewers and 488,000 W25-54, according to Nielsen data.
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Emmy-winning cinematographer Ralph Woolsey, whose television work includes Batman and It Takes a Thief, has died at age 104.
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