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Fox’s Cosmos: Possible Worlds, originally set to premiere March 3, has been bumped, as the investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against host Neil deGrasse Tyson continues. Two women have accused Tyson of inappropriate sexual advances, behavior he denies. A Family Guy repeat has been scheduled for the March 3 and 10 timeslots originally intended for Cosmos.
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Alec Baldwin responded to President Trump’s Sunday morning tweet about Saturday Night Live. “Nothing funny about tired Saturday Night Live on Fake News NBC!,” posted the president. “Question is, how do the Networks get away with these total Republican hit jobs without retribution?…This is the real Collusion!” That evening, Baldwin – who had once again played Trump in the show’s cold open – tweeted, “I wonder if a sitting President exhorting his followers that my role in a TV comedy qualifies me as an enemy of the people constitutes a threat to my safety and that of my family?”.
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Netflix canceled The Punisher and Jessica Jones, its last two Marvel series. The Punisher will not return for a third season, and the upcoming third season of Jessica Jones will be its last – at least, its last on Netflix. “Our Network partner may have decided they no longer want to continue telling the tales of these great characters… but you know Marvel better than that,” said Marvel Television.
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Ernest Dickerson (The Walking Dead) will direct ten episodes of CBS All Access’ Interrogation, as well as exec produce. Each episode of the true crime drama is based on an interrogation from real police files.
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Netflix, Hasbro and Rooster Teeth are teaming for animated series War for Cybertron, set in the Transformers universe. Animation studio is Polygon Pictures.
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SNL alum Chris Rock will direct and executive produce NBC’s comedy pilot Saving Kenan, starring and exec produced by SNL’s Kenan Thompson. Project comes from Lorne Michaels’ Broadway Video, with Universal Television.
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ID has some killer premieres lined up for the second half of February. Season five of See No Evil launches Wednesday, February 20 at 9p, while new series Hometown Homicide debuts Tuesday, February 26 at 9p and Killing Time arrives Thursday, February 28 at 10p.
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Hasbro and Nickelodeon are teaming for the return of the Power Rangers with a new television series, Power Rangers Beach Morphers, premiering on Saturday, March 2, at 8a.
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HBO’s Barry starts its sophomore run Sunday, March 31 at 10p. Bill Hader stars as a hitman who decides to pursue an acting career.
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Queen, the subject of Oscar nominee Bohemian Rhapsody, will play at the Academy Awards Sunday on ABC. American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert is vocalist, replacing the late Freddie Mercury. “We will rock the Oscars,” tweeted Lambert on Sunday.
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The Resurgence: DeMarcus Cousins premieres on Showtime Saturday, April 13 at 8p. Documentary chronicles the NBA superstar’s grueling comeback from a career-threatening injury.
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Comedian/former SNL writer John Mulaney will take his second turn at bat as host of NBC’s Saturday Night Live on March 2. Musical guest will be Thomas Rhett.
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Rose Williams (Reign) and Theo James (Downton Abbey) landed the leads in ITV and PBS’s Masterpiece drama based on Jane Austen’s unfinished drama, Sandition…Jessica Garza (The Purge) and Johnathan Nieves (New Amsterdam) have joined the cast of Showtime sequel Penny Dreadful: City of Angels as series regulars…Crazy Rich Asians co-star Ken Jeong will star in CBS comedy pilot The Emperor of Malibu, from Asians writers Kevin Kwan…Wendy Malick (Hot in Cleveland) has boarded the cast of Fox comedy pilot Richard Lovely…Nickie Micheaux (Animal Kingdom) and Alexis Louder (Harriet) will recur on NBC’s Chicago P.D.…Katja Herbers (Westworld) scored the female lead in CBS drama pilot Evil.
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MTV and Viacom Digital Studios International greenlit four new short form originals: Singled Out, a digital reimagining of the dating show; Cribs franchise extender Geordie Cribs; adulting reality series Chloe Ferry is a Grown Up; and cooking show Scotty’s Tea. The shows will be produced by the UK Production arm of Viacom International Digital studios.
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ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy hit a series low 1.4/7 among A18-49 on Thursday, but that was still enough to win the night in the demo on a low viewership Valentine’s Day.
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Emmy nominated writer Christopher Knopf (The Girl Who Spelled Freedom) died February 13 of congestive heart failure. He was 91. Knopf was a former President of the Writers Guild of America.
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