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ON TELEVISION (TUESDAY 5/29/18)
FOX: Beat Shazam (Premiere) at 8pm
FOX: Love Connection (Premiere) at 9pm
HISTORY: Hunting Isis (Premiere) at 10pm
NBC: America’s Got Talent (Premiere) at 8pm
NBC: World of Dance (Premiere) at 10pm
OWN: Queen Sugar (Premiere) at 10pm
TNT: Animal Kingdom (Premiere) at 9pm
VELOCITY: Fantomworks (Premiere) at 9pm
WGN AMERICA: 100 Code (Premiere) at 10pm
Amazon picked up Expanse, the sci-fi drama currently in its third and final season on Syfy, for a fourth run. Amazon chief Jeff Bezos broke the news at the National Space Society’s International Space Development Conference. A change.org petition by fans calling for Amazon or Netflix to buy the rights had collected almost 140,000 signatures by the time Bezos made the announcement.
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Fixer Upper power couple Chip and Joanna Gaines got an apology from writer Daryl Austin, who accused them in a column for USA Today of putting their businesses over their children. ”Frankly, I wonder where they even find time to brush their teeth, let alone spend quality, one-on-one time with each child daily,” wrote Austin. On Twitter, Chip Gaines said his family (four kids, soon to be five) came first, and if he needed to, he’d “shut down this circus so fast it will make your head spin.” In a column for Fox News, Austin corrected his take on the Gainses. “Mine was a flawed argument that projected my if/then belief system onto another family,” he said. “My intention was to start a conversation about what it actually means to put family first, but my means of doing so were way off course.” Although episodes of Fixer Upper are still airing on HGTV, the Gainses decided to stop doing the show last year.
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Sarah Jeffery, one of the stars of CW’s upcoming Charmed reboot, jumped to the defense of her new show after one of Charmed’s original stars, Holly Marie Combs, tweeted, “I will never understand what is fierce, funny, or feminist in creating a show that basically says the original actresses are too old to do a job they did 12 years ago.” Jeffery responded on Saturday by saying that while the original show will always be respected, “I know our show will have a positive effect on so many women, youth and anyone who is receptive to being on the right side of history.”
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Sesame Street creators filed a lawsuit against STX Entertainment, alleging that the marketing campaign for R-rated The Happytime Murders will hurt the house of Elmo. The film starring Melissa McCarthy centers on a puppet cast from a 1980s TV show that get murdered; the Jim Henson Company helped produce. The movie features scenes of drug use and sex by puppets, but it’s the promo’s tag line, “No Sesame. All Street.”, that has kids’ show’s creators riled. “While the trailer at issue is almost indescribably crude, ‘Sesame’ is not trying to enjoin defendants’ promotion or distribution of their movie,” says the suit. “It is only defendants’ deliberate choice to invoke and commercially misappropriate ‘Sesame’s’ name and goodwill in marketing the movie – and thereby cause consumers to conclude that ‘Sesame’ is somehow associated with the movie – that has infringed on and tarnished the ‘Sesame Street’ mark and goodwill.”
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The U.S.’s fourth annual Red Nose Day campaign raised over $42 million. The seven-week initiative wrapped with three hours of themed programming on NBC, with Anne Hathaway getting dunked in water when the fundraising goal of $40 was passed.
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Season two of Floribama Shore launches on MTV Tuesday, June 19 at 10p. The reality show was the number one original cable series and the number two new original unscripted cable series in 2017, per Nielsen Live+SD P18-34 data.
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New seasons of true crime series set to debut on ID next month include Fear Thy Neighbor (Saturday, June 2 at 10p), Scene of the Crime with Tony Harris (Sunday, June 3 at 10p), The Real Story with Maria Elena Salinas (Monday, June 4 at 10p), and Murder Comes to Town (Tuesday, June 5 at 9p). Newcomers joining the lineup are People Magazine Investigates: Cults, offering untold stories of cult leaders starting Monday, June 4 at 9p, and Wonderland Murders, focused on Portland homicide investigators, debuting on Tuesday, June 5 at 10p.
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Seasons 1-5 of The Mindy Project launch on Fuse Friday, June 1, with a “Mindy’s Allstars” marathon from 5p-11p. Season 6 of the series comes to linear TV for the first time with its Fuse premiere on Wednesday, September 12. The comedy ran on Fox for its first three season, moving to Hulu for seasons 4-6.
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The Paley Center for Media is presenting “An Evening with Dear White People” on June 5 at 7p in Beverly Hills. Cast and creator will take part in a panel discussion.
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Alyson Hannigan (How I Met Your Mother), Connie Ray (The Big C), Todd Stashwick (12 Monkeys), Taylor Ortega (JonTron), Ciara Wilson (OMG!) and Erika Tham (Make it Pop) have joined the cast of the live-action Kim Possible, a Disney Channel original movie. Comedy-adventure is set to debut in 2019.
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Leading into Sunday’s season one finale, BBC America’s Killing Eve posted an unbroken streak of ratings growth among A25-54 and A18-49 demos stretching back to its premiere. Across seven weeks, the series grew a total of 47% in total viewers, 90 percent in A25-54 and 94% in A18-49 from its premiere episode on April 8 in Nielsen Live+3 ratings, with the penultimate episode delivering 986,000 total viewers, 455,000 A25-54, and 367,000 A18-49.
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Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals matched ESPN’s highest-rated game ever, with a 9.1 metered rating on Sunday.
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Univision stations finished the May Sweep as the leader in Early News across LA, New York, Houston, Dallas, San Francisco, and Sacramento, regardless of language, among A18-49. Univision stations also delivered the number one late local news among A18-49 in Dallas and A18-34 in Dallas and Chicago.
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E!’s season three premiere episode of Total Bellas on May 20 delivered a series high in P18-34 (331,000) and W18-34 (253,000), and garnered 893,000 total viewers in Live+3.
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