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HGTV: Property Brothers (Premiere) at 9pm
MOTORTREND: Wrench’d (Premiere) at 9pm
MOTORTREND: Last Stop Garage (Premiere) at 10pm
MTV: The Challenge: War of The Worlds (Premiere) at 9pm
CBS: Criminal Minds (Finale) at 10pm
TRAVEL: Beyond The Unknown (Finale) at 10pm
ABC’s top comedy, Modern Family, is headed for the exit – slowly. The Emmy-winning series has been picked up for an eleventh and final season. “For 10 years, our characters have bravely faced turning points in life and moved through them to great personal enrichment; we have chosen a different path by doing one more season of Modern Family,” joked co-creator and executive producer Christopher Lloyd in a statement.
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It’s Viva Las Vegas for Jimmy Kimmel Live!. The late-night talker is heading to Sin City to shoot five original shows. Episodes start airing on Monday, April 1 at 11:30p on ABC.
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The Paley Center for Media announced the initial group of talent and series participating in PaleyFest LA 2019, taking place March 15 to 24 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. This year’s lineup includes The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Grace and Frankie, An Evening with Stephen Colbert, RuPaul’s Drag Race, 9-11, Jane the Virgin and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: The Farewell Seasons, Parks and Recreation 10th Anniversary Reunion, The Walking Dead, Hawaii Five-0, MacGyver, Magnum P.I., Pose, Star Trek: Discovery, The Twilight Zone and This Is Us.
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Actress Wendy Raquel Robinson and R&B singer Tank were tapped to host the 2019 Bounce Trumpet Awards, celebrating African-American achievements and contributions. Event debuts on Bounce on Sunday, February 17 at 9p.
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Congresswoman Maxine Waters will be honored with the NAACP Chairman’s Award at the 50th NAACP Image Awards airing live on Saturday, March 30 at 9p on TV One.
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GLAAD will honor Madonna with the advocate for Change Award at the 30th Annual Media Awards in New York City on Saturday, May 4. “From HIV crisis to international LGBTQ issues, she fearlessly pushes for a world where LGBTQ people are accepted,” said GLAAD President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis.
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CBS ordered two more seasons of Chuck Lorre comedy Mom. The news comes after Warner Bros. TV secured new deals with series stars Anna Faris and Allison Janney.
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ABC doled out early renewals to The Good Doctor, A Million Little Things and Shark Tank. The net also greenlit reality competition series Bachelor in Paradise for a sixth season.
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After garnering over 17 million viewers during its highest rated season ever, HGTV renewed Love It or List it for an additional 26 episodes to premiere in late 2019. Series centers on designer Hilary Farr and real estate expert David Visentin as they help homeowners decide to remodel or purchase a new house.
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Freeform’s grown-ish was picked up for a third season. The net also renewed Good Trouble for a second season. The Fosters spinoff, starring Maia Mitchell and Cierra Ramirez, follows Callie and Mariana as they embark on the next phase of their adult lives in Los Angeles.
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Jordin Sparks (Sparkle), Matt Shively (The Real O’Neals) and newcomer Brooks Brantly have been cast in upcoming Freeform series Besties (wt). Set in Los Angeles, comedy follows two half-sisters who are thrown into each other’s lives by an online genetics test. Besties is produced by ABC Signature Studios. Ranada Shepard, Casey Johnson and David Windsor serve as creators and executive producers, while Kenya Berris also serves as executive producer.
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AGC Television secured the rights to author Christopher Golden’s Ben Walker supernatural thriller book franchise with plans to develop it into a TV series.
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Nickelodeon struck a deal with Netflix for its Nickelodeon Studios division to produce two original, animated feature films based on its hits The Loud House and Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The partnership is part of Nickelodeon and Viacom’s broader efforts to tap into Nickelodeon’s library and produce new content for third-party digital and linear platforms.
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Kyle Gallner (The Outsiders) is set to lead CBS All Access’ straight-to-series true-crime drama Interrogation. The project, co-created by Swedish writer-producer Anders Weidemann and John Mankiewicz, is an original concept based on a true story that spanned over 30 years in which a young man was convicted of brutally murdering his mother and sentenced to life in prison.
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Hulu renewed Light as a Feather, ordering a 16-episode second season of the series from AwesomenessTV, Wattpad and Kelsey Grammer’s Gramnet. Supernatural thriller is based on a story by Zoe Aarsen that has over 3.8 million reads on Wattpad.
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Netflix greenlit Pieces of Her, based on the 2018 book by Karin Slaughter. Series hails from an all-female creative team of executive producers Lesli Linka Glatter (Homeland, Madmen), Charlotte Stoudt (Homeland, House of Cards) and Bruna Papandrea (Big Little Lies) and is being written by Stoudt, who also serves as showrunner.
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Freeform’s Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger debuts its second season with a special two-hour premiere on Thursday, April 4 at 8p, while The Bold Type returns for its third season on Tuesday, April 9 at 8p.
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Epic Yellowstone, a Smithsonian Channel series three years in the making, debuts Sunday, March 10 at 9p. Hosted by Bill Pullman, it gives audiences a front row seat to the spectacle of wildlife and seasonal extremes in the American national park.
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Unsung and Uncensored return to TV One with new seasons exploring the intimate lives of celebrities on Sunday March 3. Unsung bows at 9p, followed by Uncensored at 10p.
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Archaeologists and explorers Blue Nelson and Mike Arbuthnot go on a journey to find out how deep the Vikings may dived into America on Science Channel’s America’s Lost Vikings. Six-episode series premieres Sunday, February 10 at 10p.
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People’s Republic of Desire bows on PBS’s Independent Lens on Monday, February 25 at 10p (check local listings). Series explores China’s stranger-than-fiction online world, where young people gather to worship live-streaming internet stars.
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Slutever is back for a second season on Sunday, February 10 at 10p on Viceland. Created, hosted and executive produced by Karley Sciortino, series explores sex, relationships and intimacy in the modern world.
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Acorn TV’s straight-to-series crime drama London Kills debuts Monday, February 25, while mystery series Queens of Mystery bows Monday, April 8.
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ABC airs a special first-look episode of Videos After Dark on March 12 at 10p. Hourlong comedy reality series, hosted by Bob Saget, is produced by the team behind America’s Funniest Videos.
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The premiere of NBC drama The Village was moved by a week to Tuesday, March 19 at 10p, due to rescheduling demands for Tuesday’s State of the Union address.
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Lifetime tackles the foster care system in new movie I Am Somebody’s Child: The Regina Louise Story. Based on author Regina Louise’s personal experience navigating the broken system, it stars Ginnifer Goodwin (Once Upon A Time) and newcomer Angela Fairley (GodComplx), a foster child herself, and is set to debut Saturday, April 20 at 8p.
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Sony Pictures Television’s getTV showcases African-American entertainers every Sunday this month, from 10p to 12a. Tribute features variety show appearances by Sammy Davis Jr., Diahann Carroll, Patti LaBelle, Richard Pryor and more. Action kick off with Flip Wilson…Of Course on Sunday February 2 at 10p.
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Lost Beasts of the Ice Age bows on Science Channel on Sunday, February 24 at 8p. Two-hour special follows top scientists as they look to uncover evidence of the lives of Ice Age animals.
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Antenna TV presents a wedding party marathon on Valentine’s Day. The net begins airing nuptial-themed episodes of TV classics like Coach, I Dream of Jeannie, Alice, Head of the Class, Three’s Company and more on Thursday, February 14 beginning at 5a through Friday, February 15 at 4a.
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Children of the Snow bows on Investigation Discovery on Monday, February 18 at 9p. Two-night special delves into the deaths of four children abducted and murdered by the Oakland County Child Killer in the 1970s.
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The Bachelor will conclude its current season with a live, two-night finale on Monday, March 11 and Tuesday, March 12. Colton Underwood will join host Chris Harrison and a studio audience on both two-hours shows, airing from 8p to 10p on ABC. Meanwhile, The Bachelor: The Women Tell All airs Tuesday, March 5 at 8p, a day after the season’s final regular episode.
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Barry Watson (7th Heaven) will recur as Lachlan Murdoch in Showtime’s The Loudest Voice, the upcoming limited series about FOX News founder Roger Ailes… Levy Tran (The Haunting of Hill House, Shameless) nabbed a major recurring role on CBS’ MacGyver, reports Deadline.
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Facebook now allows everyone to unsend messages for up to 10 minutes. On Tuesday, Facebook Messenger globally rolled out “Remove for everyone” to help users pull back typos, poor choices or any other messages. After sending a Facebook Message, the sender will have up to 10 minutes to tap on it. The delete button has been replaced by “Remove for you.” Plus, there’s now a “Remove for everyone” option that pulls the message from recipients’ inboxes.
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Viacom addressed the revenue possibilities of Pluto TV, the ad-supported streaming service it’s buying for $340 million. During its fiscal first-quarter earnings call, CFO Wade Davis expanded on CEO Bob Bakish’s comments that the Pluto TV deal could create value for the company at multiples of the purchase price. Wade noted that in ad space alone, Pluto TV is a $1 billion opportunity.
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WildBrain, a popular network of children’s videos on YouTube, expanded its footprint with the launch of four new channels on Apple TV, Amazon Fire and Roku. The new channels include a WildBrain hub channel, as well as three curated channels dedicated to preschool content, kids’ action and Degrassi.
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Michelle Visage is joining the UK version of Drag Race. The BBC confirmed that Visage, who judged eight seasons of the show’s U.S. format and four of its All-Stars spin-off, will appear as a judge on the BBC Three show.
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MTV garnered six consecutive quarters of year-over-year prime growth, marking its best streak in history with P18-34 and longest run in 19 years with P18-49. It was the fastest growing network in prime among top 40 cable and broadcast up +17% for P18-34 and up +22% for P18-49, as well as the #1 cable net in Total Day for P18-34.
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In the last full week before February sweeps Judge Judy (8-week high 7.6 Live+SD national Nielsen, up 4 % from the week before) continued its domination, towering over the ratings for all programs and the entire syndication field for a milestone six straight months. The last time a strip finished ahead of the hit court chow in the weekly household ratings was July 2018.
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Four of the top five talk shows were also in the plus column for the frame. Dr. Phil (10-week high 3.1, up 7%) led the pack for the 125th frame in a row. Live with Kelly and Ryan (new season high 2.4, up 4%) tied Ellen DeGeneres (2.4, up 4%), while Steve Harvey’s Steve (1.4, up 8%) matched its season high and has now grown 27% over the past three weeks.
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