FIRST LOOK
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ON TELEVISION (THURSDAY 3/7/19)
ABC: For The People (Premiere) at 10pm
ID: Dead of Night (Premiere) at 9pm
NBC: AP Bio (Premiere) at 8:30pm
SCIENCE: Mega Machines: Sea Giants (Premiere) at 7pm
A&E: 60 Days In (Finale) at 10pm
BRAVO: Backyard Envy (Finale) at 10pm
LIFETIME: The Wrap Game (Finale) at 10pm
TLC: Dr. Pimple Popper (Finale) at 9pm
Arrow’s upcoming eighth season will be its last. Series star Stephen Amell announced the news on social media. Executive producers Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim and Beth Schwartz addressed the show’s end in a joint statement: “This was a difficult decision to come to, but like every hard decision we’ve made for the past seven years, it was with the best interests of Arrow in mind. We’re heartened by the fact that Arrow has birthed an entire universe of shows that will continue on for many years to come.”
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After portions of Gayle King’s interview with R. Kelly, which aired on Tuesday’s CBS Evening News and Wednesday’s CBS This Morning, set Twitter ablaze, CBS News announced it will broadcast a one-hour primetime special showing more of King’s 80-minute sit-down with the embattled R&B singer. The Gayle King R. Kelly Interview is set to air Friday, March 8 at 8p on CBS.
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Jeopardy host Alex Trebek, 78, revealed that he has been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. “Now, normally, the prognosis for this is not very encouraging, but I’m going to fight this, and I’m going to keep working,” Trebek said in a YouTube video posted Wednesday. “And with the love and support of my family and friends and with the help of your prayers also, I plan to beat the low survival rates statistics for this disease.”
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The Mad About You revival, with original stars Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt, has finally found a home. Spectrum Originals, Charter Communications’ premium content platform, has picked up the project to air as a limited series. Peter Tolan will serve as showrunner, writer and executive producer on the half-hour comedy, from Sony Pictures Television in association with Comedy Dynamics.
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The Democratic National Committee won’t partner with Fox News for its upcoming primary debates. Tom Perez, DNC Chairman, said in a statement that “recent reporting in the New Yorker on the inappropriate relationship between President Trump, his administration and Fox News has led me to conclude that the network is not in a position to host a fair and neutral debate for our candidates.” MSNBC, NBC and Telemundo will partner for the first primary debate, slated for June. CNN has the rights for the second debate in July. Bill Sammon, SVP and Managing Editor of Fox News in Washington, said, “We hope the DNC will reconsider its decision to bar Chris Wallace, Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum, all of whom embody the ultimate journalistic integrity and professionalism, from moderating a Democratic presidential debate. They’re the best debate team in the business.”
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Comedy Central expanded its digital footprint with the launch of YouTube channel, Comedy Central Originals, complete with a robust development slate that features new and returning series, pilot orders, stand-up and social content. The move comes on the heels of the brand’s recent Comedy Central Stand-Up channel on the streamer, which premieres Emily Heller: Ice Thickeners on Friday, March 8.
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Freeform changed the title of upcoming comedy Besties to Unrelated. The series, which stars Jordin Sparks and Gigi Zumbado, follows Becca (Sparks) and her newly discovered half-sister Jesi (Zumbado).
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The amount of cord cutters nearly doubled in 2018, according to the latest study by Leichtman Research Group, with the largest pay-TV providers losing about 2.9 million video subscribers. That’s up from 1.5 million subscriber losses in 2017. The research firm, which tracks providers covering about 95% of the market, found that gains from virtual MVPD services, aka “skinny bundles,” aren’t making up for the conventional subscriber losses. A growing number of viewers are doing without pay-TV totally, presumably in favor of subscription services like Netflix, Hulu or Amazon Prime Video. Satellite distributors DirecTV and Dish Network suffered the bulk of the losses – a collective 2.36 million in 2018, up from 1.55 million in 2017.
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Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg outlined a new vision for privacy on the world’s biggest social platform on Wednesday, in a nearly 3,300-word post. Zuckerberg wrote, “I believe we should be working towards a world where people can speak privately and live freely knowing that their information will only be seen by who they want to see it and won’t all stick around forever. If we can help move the world in this direction, I will be proud of the difference we’ve made.” Among the points in the new privacy plan, Zuckerberg noted that Facebook will introduce a way to make messages time-out, so that they will disappear by default after a preset time limit, with users able to control when their messages vanish.
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NCIS alum Pauley Perrette is heading back to CBS as a co-lead opposite Jaime Camil in comedy pilot Broke, from Jane the Virgin creator and EP Jennie Snyder Urman and Will & Grace EP Alex Herschlag, CBS TV Studios and Propgate. Written by Herschlag, the project centers on Miguel (Camil) a wealthy trust fund baby who is cut off by his father, so he and his wife move into the Reseda condo of her estranged sister Jackie (Perrette).
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USA Network picked up a third season of The Sinner. Bill Pullman is returning to reprise his role as Detective Harry Ambrose, with Matt Bomer (Doom Patrol, Will & Grace) joining as a series regular.
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AXS TV renewed WOW-Women Of Wrestling. The net upped its order to 24 additional episodes from the initial eight in its debut season. The show’s Season 1 finale airs Friday, March 8 at 9p.
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Brie Larson signed on to star in and executive produce an untitled drama that scored a straight-to-series commitment from Apple. The project is based on the real-life experiences of CIA undercover operative Amaryllis Fox and her upcoming memoir, Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA. In addition to Larson, Michael Ellenberg will also executive produce via Media Res, as well as Lynette Howell Taylor under her 51 Entertainment banner.
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Michael Schur reupped his overall deal with Universal Television with a multi-year contract. Schur, who is currently EP on NBC comedies The Good Place and Brooklyn Nine-Nine, will also serve as executive producer on upcoming series Abby’s, bowing Thursday, March 28.
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Netflix acquired the rights to Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude and is developing it into a Spanish-language series. Garcia Marquez’s sons, Rodrigo Garcia and Gonzalo Garcia Barcha, will serve as executive producers on the project.
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Imagine Kids & Family inked a deal with JIMMY Patterson Books to develop five children’s books written by author James Patterson into film, TV and digital properties. Projects in development include Patterson’s House of Robots, Treasure Hunters, and I Funny.
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OBB Pictures and Denver Broncos all-pro linebacker Von Miller are collaborating on Mars Martians, a half-hour animated comedy about the NFL’s first expansion team on Mars, according to Deadline. Miller will voice the lead role and serve as EP.
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Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories and Agatha Christie LTD joined forces on a new series centered on Christie’s iconic sleuth Miss Marple. The project is inspired by the author’s Miss Marple books and short stories and will be developed together with Endeavor Content.
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Deadliest Catch returns for its 15th season on Tuesday, April 9 at 9p on Discovery.
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Freeform’s new drama, Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists, bows Wednesday, March 20 at 8p.
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Netflix announced an April 15 premiere date for No Good Nick. The multi-camera comedy, which stars Melissa Joan Hart and Sean Astin, received a 20-episode order in September.
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Marcos Doesn’t Live Here Anymore debuts on PBS as a special presentation of Independent Lens, Frontline and Voces on Monday, April 15 at 9p (check local listings). The latest film from David Sutherland (The Farmer’s Wife, Country Boys, Kind-Hearted Woman) tells the story of Elizabeth Perez, a US Marine fighting to reunite her family after her husband is deported to Mexico.
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Gerald McRaney nabbed the lead opposite Kim Cattrall in Filthy Rich, Fox’s soapy drama pilot… Ron Perlman (Hellboy) and Famke Janssen (X-Men) will star in BBC One spy drama The Capture… Jon Beavers (The Long Road Home) and Grant Harvey (The Crossing) nabbed recurring roles in the fourth season of TNT’s Animal Kingdom… Ernie Hudson (LA’s Finest) landed a guest spot on The CW’s Arrow… … Rio Mangini (Everything Sucks) and Del Zamora (Mayans MC) were set as series regulars in The CW’s The Lost Boys pilot.
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Victor Rasuk was cast as the male lead in ABC’s romantic comedy pilot The Baker and the Beauty, reports Deadline, while Alexa Nisenson was upped from recurring to series regular in Season 5 of Fear the Walking Dead. Michael Angarano (This Is Us) and Briga Heelan (Great News) will headline CBS hybrid comedy pilot To Whom It May Concern.
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Shopify Studios launched two new digital series. Beauty Mark follows hosts Jess Sanchez and Rachel Hale as they travel to meet female entrepreneurs who have carved out their space in the beauty industry, while Unpacking Business with Shay Mitchell features Shay Mitchell heading to businesses across Los Angeles to meet the women behind them. Both projects debuted on YouTube yesterday as part of Shopify’s International Women’s Day Playlist.
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Univision’s premiere of revamped morning show Despierta America on Monday averaged 671,000 Total Viewers, 242,000 A18-49, and 73,000 A18-34.
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BROADWAY
Be More Chill opens on Sunday March 10, 2019.
https://ppc.broadway.com/shows/be-more-chill/
Choir Boy is closing on Sunday March 10, 2019.
https://ppc.broadway.com/shows/choir-boy-broadway/
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