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Anchorman Jorge Ramos and his Univision team landed in Miami yesterday, but they were missing their camera equipment and content from their phones. The group had been detained at the presidential palace in Venezuela and interrogated on Monday, after Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro stopped an interview when Ramos showed him videos of young people eating scraps of food out of a garbage truck. Ramos wants the 17-minute recording of the abbreviated interview back. “They are going to say that they already deleted the images of the interview, but they also recorded the interview with three cameras, I saw them, so the interview is there,” Ramos told reporters in Miami. “If Maduro is not a coward… then he should show the complete interview.”
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Noticias Telemundo correspondent Daniel Garrido also faced danger in Venezuela, when was covering the detention and deportation of the Univision crew. Garrido was abducted Tuesday at 6a in Caracas by a group of unidentified armed men, who forced him into a vehicle and covered his head with a hood. After questioning him for six hours and seizing his equipment, the kidnappers freed him without explanation and without returning his equipment. Telemundo said Garrido is “free and in good health.”
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Jenna Bush Hager, daughter of former president George W. Bush, has been named Hoda Kotb’s co-host for the fourth hour of NBC’s Today. She’ll replace Kathie Lee Gifford, who is stepping down in April. “My dad just wrote three words, which made me weep,” she told Kotb and Gifford. “He said, ‘Very proud dad.’ Which I’m like, what is there to be proud of? I’m just drinking wine in the morning!” Tweeted Gifford, “So thrilled for my sweet friend…She will be a beautiful addition to this show.”
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NBC renewed all three of its Wednesday night Dick Wolf Chicago dramas for the 2019-20 season. Chicago Med is currently in its fourth season, Chicago P.D. is in season six and Chicago Fire is in season seven. All three are delivering their most-watched seasons ever, with Med averaging a 2.0 rating in A18-49 and 11.4 million viewers overall in Live+7 Nielsens, Fire averaging a 2.1 in A18-49 and 11.7 million viewers, and P.D. earning a 2.1 in A18-49 and 11.1 million viewers.
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Nicollette Sheridan is leaving the role of Alexis on CW’s Dynasty reboot, “to focus on some personal family responsibilities,” said the network. Sheridan’s last episode will air this spring.
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Another film about Michael Jackson is in the works. The BBC ordered Michael Jackson: The Rise and Fall (wt), produced by BBC Studios and written by British journalist Jacques Peretti, who has made three other films about the late superstar. The Jackson estate is suing HBO for two-part documentary Leaving Neverland, focused on two men who claim they were molested as boys by Jackson, slated to premiere March 3 and 4.
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USA Network picked up revamped reality series Temptation Island for a second season. Mark L. Walberg will return to host an extended 12-episode sophomore run, which will include a reunion special. The series, airing Tuesdays at 10p, has grown its audience +34% among P18-49, +36% among P25-54 and +23% in total viewers since its USA debut on January 15. Island first aired for three seasons on Fox, from 2001-2003.
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HBO renewed docu-series Axios for season two. Four episodes will air this spring, and four will air in the fall, focused on trending stories.
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Facebook greenlit an animated series set in prehistoric times starring Anna Kendrick (Pitch Perfect) and Zac Efron (High School Musical). Human Discoveries is slated to premiere on Facebook Watch later this year.
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Cartoon Network’s DC Superhero Girls premieres on International Women’s Day, Friday, March 8 at 6p with one-hour special, #SweetJustice.
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Eight years after its first season, Telemundo’s most successful series ever, drama La Reina del Sur, returns for season two on Monday, April 22 at 10p. Kate del Castillo will be back as Teresa Mendoza. The network is airing a “Special Edition Season 1” beginning Monday, March 4 at 10p, which will also be available with English subtitles across all platforms.
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The the Facebook community will play a role in casting the three reimagined versions of MTV’s Real World series. For each of the shows taking place in the U.S., Mexico and Thailand, the seventh and final cast members will be picked based on Facebook poll results. MTV’s The Real World, co-produced by Bunim/Murray Productions, launches exclusively on Facebook Watch this spring.
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Turner Classic Movies celebrates the life and career of director and choreographer Stanley Donen with a five-film tribute on Monday, March 18, starting with 1952’s Singin’ in the Rain at 9p. Programming is preceded by a 2006 interview with Robert Osborne and Donen, who died February 21 at age 94.
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Music mogul DJ Khaled is set get slime-y as host of Nickelodeon’s Kids’ Choice Awards 2019, airing live Saturday, March 23, at 8p.
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Nathan Lane (The Producers) is joining the cast of Showtime’s Penny Dreadful: City of Angels. Lane will play a veteran officer in the LAPD…Mary Steenburgen (The Last Man On Earth) co-stars in NBC musical dramedy pilot Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist…Ben J. Pierce (Fuller House) won a lead role opposite Brooke Shields in CW drama pilot Glamorous…Rekha Sharma (Battlestar Galactica) will recur on Facebook Watch’s Limetown, based on the podcast…Matthew Barnes (Atlanta) landed a recurring role on CBS All Access drama Strange Angel…Clive Standen (Taken) will co-star in NBC drama pilot Council of Dads…Megan Echikunwoke (Vixen) co-stars opposite Brittany Snow in Fox’s untitled drama pilot based on Australian series Sisters.
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Facebook is planning to renew only about a third of the news shows it launched for Facebook Watch since June. Partners have included CNN, ABC News, Univision and more. “We’re going to continue experimenting with news publishers in Watch and sharing what we learn,” said Shelley Venus, Facebook’s video lead for news partnerships. “We’re partnering with these organizations to build sustainable video businesses, where Facebook can be one part of their overall strategy.”
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Opposite NBC’s premiere of The Voice (10.75 million viewers, 2.1 rating), ABC’s The Bachelor grew 3% week to week in Total Viewers to a new season high (6.7 million) and held steady with A18-49 (1.8/8 vs. 1.9/8). The premiere of NBC’s The Enemy Within won the demo at 10p (1.2), and was second in total viewers (5.77 million) to CBS’s Bull (6.66 million).
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Monday’s edition of Live with Kelly and Ryan’s “Live’s After Oscar Show” scored a 3.2/11 in Households in the 56 Metered Markets to deliver Live’s highest-rated single-day telecast since the show’s 2017 post-Oscar special. The special grew over the 2018 broadcast by +7% in Households (3.2/11 vs. 3.0/10) and held even year to year among W25-54 (1.3/11) in the 25 LPM Markets.
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Bernie Sanders’ town hall meeting on Monday delivered 1.4 million viewers to CNN, beating CNN town halls for candidates Howard Schultz (1.018 million viewers) and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (1.152 million), but behind Kamala Harris’ tally of 2 million.
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For the week of February 18, Univision delivered week-over-week audience growth during primetime among Total Viewers 2+ (+9% to 1.5 million), A18-49 (+11% to 641,000) and A18-34 (+16% to 261,000).
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Onboard President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground Productions is Qadriyyah “Q” Shamsid-Deen, formerly program director at Ryan Murphy Television’s Half Initiative. Shamsid-Deen joins Higher Ground co-heads Priya Swaminathan and Tonia Davis. “With Higher Ground Productions, we hope to bring people together around common values and uncommon stories – and Priya, Tonia and Q are precisely the people to bring that vision to life,” said Barack Obama.
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