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ON TELEVISION (TUESDAY 8/21/18)
ID: The Devil Speaks (Premiere) at 10pm
TRAVEL: Bizarre Foods: Delicious Destinations (Premiere) at 8pm
MTV: Fear Factor (Finale) at 10pm
TNT: Animal Kingdom (Finale) at 9pm
Camila Cabello picked up trophies for Artist of the Year and Video of the Year at last night’s MTV‘s Video Music Awards, Cardi B was named Best New Artist and Donald Glover‘s (Atlanta) music video for “This Is America” won Best Video With a Message, Best Direction and Best Choreography. Also of note at the VMAs: Ariana Grande dazzled with a rendition of “God Is a Woman,” which ended with her mother, grandmother and cousin joining her on stage; Madonna got no respect on Twitter for a tribute to Aretha Franklin; Jennifer Lopez gave a memorable greatest hits performance before accepting the Video Vanguard award; and Nicki Minaj performed from the Oculus in New York in a gold bodysuit, flanked by unicorns.
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Charter Communications is launching a 24-hour Spectrum News channel in November for its 1.5 million customers in Southern California. Cater Lee, VP of News and Content at Spectrum, is heading the project, which will lean towards community news rather than crime and car chases.
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HBO gave an early second season renewal to Random Acts of Flyness. The late nighter from Terence Nance, featuring interconnected vignettes, launched August 3.
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Viceland is also in renewal mode, ordering a third season of Most Expensivest and a sophomore run of Slutever. And the net is bringing back Bong Appetit with a fresh cannabis cooking format and new co-host, Cypress Hill frontman B Real.
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Noticias Telemundo is boosting its D.C. bench with the addition of Mexican journalist Javier Vega as correspondent. The appointment is part of an initiative to strengthen its operations in the capital.
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Netflix picked up Emmy-nominated GLOW for a third season. Season two of the women’s wrestling dramedy premiered two months ago.
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Trina Braxton (Braxton Family Values) is joining first-year hosts Rashan Ali, Syleena Johnson and Quad Webb-Lunceford on daily talk show Sister Circle, airing in 12 TEGNA markets and nationally on TV One, reaching 60% of U.S. television households.
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Former Miss Americas are calling for the resignations of the organization’s chairman, former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson, and CEO Regina Hopper, after the current title holder claimed she had been bullied and silenced. On Monday, Heather Whitestone (Miss America 1995) and Suzette Charles (1984), told Today’s Megyn Kelly that Carlson and Hopper should step down, a day after Carlson disputed the accusations on social media, saying “actions have consequences.”
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Netflix’s first Mexican reality show will focus on nine of Mexico City’s splashiest socialites. Made in Mexico debuts Friday, September 28, with a cast that includes a nightclub impresario, TV host, model and American expat, among others.
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TNT ordered a late night-themed pilot for Naked with Niecy Nash. It’s an expansion of the net’s relationship with Nash, who stars in Claws, renewed for season three, and a co-production between Turner’s Studio T and Telepictures, and Nash’s production company, Chocolate Chick.
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The Good Doctor star Freddie Highmore signed an overall production deal with Doctor studio Sony Pictures Television to develop scripted series via his Alfresco Pictures. Claire Londy jumped aboard Alfresco as head of development.
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UPtv renewed Expecting, Our Wedding Story and Crazy Beautiful Weddings for second seasons. Season one finales of the wedding shows air Friday, August 31 at 9p and 9:30p.
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Six-part VisionKeepers, exploring how people and organizations are improving their communities through sustainability innovations, launches on public television Create channel on Friday, September 7. Episodes air weekly at 11:30a and 5:30p (check local listings).
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Syndicated Page Six TV returns Monday, September 17 in over 200 markets with new co-hosts – Bevy Smith, Elizabeth Wagmeister and Carlos Greer – an expanded team of contributors from the New York Post and a new look. The half-hour daily pop culture show, which attracted 4 million unique viewers a week during its first season, has been renewed by Twentieth Television through the 2018-2019 season.
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Saturday morning block CBS Dream Team…It’s Epic! is back September 29 at 9a. Live action series Hope in the Wild, following a wildlife rehabilitation expert, joins the lineup.
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Pasiones, which features telenovelas and drama series in Spanish, launched Korean sci-fi romantic comedy No Soy un Robot (I’m Not a Robot) on its Latin American feed starting yesterday. Series airs Monday-Friday.
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Discovery Digital has launched Don’t Blink, a photographic and scientific examination of the extraordinary parts of our daily world that can’t be seen by the naked eye. Series is currently available to stream on Discovery Channel GO and SCI GO.
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Facebook filed court papers saying users suing it over data given to Cambridge Analytica don’t have a case because they consented to share that data; their gripe should be with the app developer who obtained the data and sold in violation of Facebook’s policies. “Plaintiffs’ counsel has admitted that this is not a data breach case, in which users’ data was obtained against their will,” said Facebook. “And if Plaintiffs disagree that people should be permitted to consent to sharing their data with apps, their remedy is not in the courts where they have no viable claim.”
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Facing backlash from subscribers over video promos shown between streaming episodes, Netflix issued a statement explaining it was just testing recommendations to help members discover content they’d enjoy. “It is important to note that a member is able to skip a video preview anytime if they are not interested,” added the company.
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Over 9300 pets found forever homes during NBC4 New York and Telemundo 47’s fourth annual Clear the Shelters adoption drive. A recap special hosted by Jane Lynch will air on NBC 4 on Friday Augst 24, while Chiquibaby and Elva Saray host a program on Telemundo on Saturday, August 25.
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Esai Morales (Superfly) will recur on season ten of CBS procedural NCIS: Los Angeles, launching Sunday, September 30 at 9p….Katy O’Brian (The Walking Dead) landed a series regular role on season 5 of Syfy’s Z Nation.
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Ahead of the September 4 premiere of BET’s The Bobby Brown Story, BET Networks and brand studio WP Narrative_ unveiled an NYC art installation that’s a 30-foot replica of Brown’s head. In the interactive project, “The public physically enters his mind, they experience 3-dimensional storytelling, passing through his ephemeral thoughts, capturing his highs and lows, surrounded by projection mapped brain synapses and floating 3D holograms of key imagery from his life,” according to the press release.
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The season 2 finale of Disney Channel‘s Andi Mack is cable’s number one series telecast for the month of August to date in Tweens 9-14 (464,000/1.9 rating) and the top live-action series telecast in Kids 6-11 (514,000/2.1 rating).
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2018 MTV VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS – WINNER LIST
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