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ON TELEVISION (TUESDAY 3/12/19)
FOX: MasterChef Junior (Premiere) at 8pm
WE TV: Bridezillas (Premiere) at 10pm
ABC: The Bachelor (Finale) at 8pm
HGTV: Windy City Rehab (Finale) at 9pm
HISTORY: Project Blue Book (Finale) at 10pm
SCIENCE: How The Universe Works (Finale) at 10pm
Daytimer Jerry O, hosted by Jerry O’Connell (Carter), will have a three-week summer run on select FOX-owned stations beginning August 12. The entertainment talk/comedy show from Debmar-Mercury and Funny Or Die will feature specially produced Funny or Die comedy segments. “I love daytime. I love watching it and have fallen in love with guest-hosting it,” said O’Connell. “I am thrilled to work with my friends at both Debmar-Mercury and Funny Or Die. I have been collaborating with both companies for years and am so excited to bring a little bit of the traditional – and something brand new – to the audience.” Said Frank Cicha, EVP of Programming for FOX Television Stations, “I’m always willing to give a fellow NY Jets fan a shot.”
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NBC renewed The Blacklist for season seven – and with the show’s leads set to return, it looks like Red’s death sentence might not be so fatal after all, botched prison escape notwithstanding. The drama is averaging 0.6 among A18-49 and 4 million total viewers in this season’s new Friday timeslot, but jumps to a 1.2 in the demo and 7.3 million viewers in Live+7 numbers. The show also ranks as the season’s most upscale drama on the Big 4 nets among A18-49.
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The hour-long series finale of CBS’s The Big Bang Theory will air Thursday, May 16 at 8p. Emmy-winning hit comedy debuted in 2007.
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Peabody named five new members to its board of directors. Joining are Susanne Daniels, Global Head of Original Content at YouTube; Peter Roth, President and Chief Content Officer for Warner Bros. Television Group; Jennifer Salke, Head of Amazon Studios; Michael Schwimmer, President and CEO of Fuse Media; and Paul Telegdy, Co-Chairman of NBC Entertainment.
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DIY Network picked up season three of Holmes & Holmes, starring professional contractor Mike Holmes and his son, home renovation expert Mike Jr. Season two ratings were 136 percent higher than the net’s overall prime average and grew nearly 30 percent over its freshman run. The new 12-episode season is slated to air in late summer 2019.
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Showtime ordered eight-part limited series Good Lord Bird, from Blumhouse Television, based on the novel by James McBride. Ethan Hawke will star as 19th-century abolitionist John Brown and is co-writing and executive producing with Mark Richard (The Ice at the Bottom of the World). Anthony Hemingway (Underground) will direct and executive produce.
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Showtime’s Penny Dreadful: City of Angels will get big bucks to move to California. The sequel(ish) is set to receive $24.7 million in tax credits to relocate from Dublin. “Shooting in California obviously has many attractions, but without the state’s Film and TV tax credit it could become cost prohibitive,” said Showtime co-President of Entertainment Jana Winograde. “We couldn’t be happier about how things worked out or the benefits it will bring to the job market.”
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Mike Judge (Silicon Valley) signed a new two-year exclusive deal with HBO, which has put two projects in development: Qualityland, a co-production between HBO and Lionsgage/3 Arts, and limited series A5, which asks the questions: why do a-holes exist, and can they be cured?
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National Geographic ordered Legendary Catch, a six-episode series from Blackfin that will explore the planet’s most magnificent fish, starting Friday, March 15 at 10p. Series follows globe-trotting angler Carter “Big Boy” Andrews.
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Racecar competition series Celebrity Grand Prix, from Mark Burnett, Tyrese Gibson (Fast & Furious) and MGM TV, is in development. Gibson will exec produce and host.
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Robot-fighting series BattleBots got the go-ahead for a second season on Discovery and Science Channel. Sophomore run is slated to start this summer. BattleBots premiered on Comedy Central in 2000, was revived on ABC in 2015, and picked up by Discovery and Science for more metal-munching mayhem 2018.
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9 Story Media Group inked a deal with King Bert Productions to develop and co-produce The World’s Worst Children, based on the children’s books written by David Walliams. The 2D animated series will be produced by King Bert and 9 Story’s animation studio Brown Bag Films.
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Amazon Studios ordered six-part travelogue Our Man In…Japan with James May, hosted by the Grand Tour star, reports Deadline. Series comes from Plum Pictures.
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Discovery’s Street Outlaws is back for a new season Monday, April 1 at 9p. Ahead of the reality show’s return, two-hour standalone specials Street Outlaws Memphis and Street Outlaws OKC air March 18 and March 25, respectively, at 9p.
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Freeform is transforming the Hollywood Athletic Club into a one-day experiential event for Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists. On Saturday, March 16, fans will “find themselves deep in a forest that is full of surprises.” Series debuts Wednesday, March 20 at 8p.
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The 263rd installment of Hallmark Channel’s Hallmark Hall of Fame, Love Takes Flight, debuts Saturday, April 27 at 8p. Nikki DeLoach (Reunited at Christmas) and Jeff Hephner (Chicago Fire, Chicago Med) star in the latest entry of the franchise, launched in December 1951.
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MTV Spring Break is back for more fun in the sun March 23-28. Programming includes performances and themed editions of shows including Siesta Key (Tuesday, March 26 at 10p) and The Challenge: War of the Worlds (Wednesday, March 27 at 10p), as well as the Spring Break Reunion Special on Thursday, March 28 at 8p.
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Paramount Network is holding a “007 Mission Marathon.” Kicking off a week of James Bond movies is GoldenEye on Monday, March 18 at 7p and 11p.
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MotorTrend is going live for 1000 Miles of Sebring, the sixth round of the 2018-2019 FIA World Endurance Championship season. Live coverage revs up on MotorTrend TV starting Friday, March 15 at 3:30p.
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Lucy Hale (Pretty Little Liars) will play the title role in CW’s Riverdale spin-off pilot, Katy Keene…Michelle Veintimilla (Gotham) landed a series regular role in ABC pilot The Baker and the Beauty, based on the Israeli series… Holly Chou (The Big Sick) will star in ABC’s untitled comedy pilot about a first-generation Chinese-American woman struggling to set boundaries with her maddening family…Bill Bellamy (Def Comedy Jam) won a series regular role on ABC comedy pilot Nana.
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Michael David-Stahl (The Deuce), Trent Garrett (Andi Mack), Liza Colon-Zayas (Titans), Juani Feliz (Shades of Blue), Vered Blonstein (The Good Doctor) and Michael Benjamin Washington (30 Rock) join the cast of ABC romantic drama pilot Until the Wedding.
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Kirby Howell-Baptiste (Killing Eve) will star in CBS All Access comedic drama Why Women Kill, joining Lucy Liu, Ginnifer Goodwin, Sam Jaeger, Reid Scott and Alexandra Daddario.
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