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ON TELEVISION (FRIDAY 3/15/19)
NAT. GEO.: Legendary Catch (Premiere) at 10pm
WE TV: Mama June: From Not To Hot (Premiere) at 9pm
WE TV: Bridezilla’s (Premiere) art 10pm
(SATURDAY 3/16/19)
GREAT AMERICAN COUNTRY: Pool Kings (Premiere) at 9pm
HGTV: While You Were Out (Premiere) at 9pm
REELZ: Murder Made Me Famous (Premiere) at 8pm
REELZ: Notorious (Premiere) at 9pm
TLC: Trading Spaces (Premiere) at 8pm
TLC: While You Were Out (Premiere) at 9pm
HGTV: Log Cabin Living (Finale) at 11pm and 11:30pm
ID: Heart of Darkness (Finale) at 9pm
(SUNDAY 3/17/19)
BYU TV: Relative Race (Premiere) at 9pm
CNN: Tricky Dick (Premiere) at 9pm
HGTV: How Close Can I Beach (Premiere) at 8pm
SHOWTIME: Billions (Premiere) at 9pm
HBO: High Maintenance (Finale) at 10:30pm
SHOWTIME: The Circus: Inside The Wildest Political Show On Earth (Finale) at 8pm
Netflix cancelled One Day At A Time, a Latinx-themed reimagining of the original Norman Lear sitcom. “We’ve made the very difficult decision not to renew One Day At A Time for a fourth season,” the streamer announced in a Twitter post. “The choice did not come easily – we spent several weeks trying to find a way to make another season work, but in the end simply not enough people watched to justify another season.” The series is being shopped to other networks.
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Hallmark Channel has cut all ties with Lori Loughlin, following her arrest over an elite college entrance fraud scheme. Said Crown Media in a statement Thursday afternoon, “We are saddened by the recent news surrounding the college admissions allegations. We are no longer working with Lori Loughlin and have stopped development of all productions that air on the Crown Media Family Network channels involving Lori Loughlin, including Garage Sale Mysteries, an independent third-party production.”
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Fear the Walking Dead’s copyright suit was settled ahead of the show’s fifth season premiere. The settlement the parties reached in the past few weeks is confidential. The suit, filed in federal court in June 2018 by comic series creator Melvin William Smith, Jr., alleged that big portions of Season 2 of the Robert Kirkman and Dave Erickson created Fear The Walking Dead were lifted from his zombies at sea Dead Ahead comic.
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Empire actor Jessie Smollett pleaded not guilty Thursday to a 16-count indictment accusing him of staging a hate crime attack on himself on January 29. If convicted, Smollett could face up to three years in prison.
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Netflix documentary series The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann is set to debut on Friday, March 15, exploring the case of the three-year-old British toddler who went missing from a Portuguese resort while on vacation with her parents in 2007. While the girl’s family suggest the project could hinder the long-running police investigation, a tabloid claims there could be explosive new revelations.
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In other Netflix news, Michael Douglas will team with a familiar face in Season 2 of Amazon’s The Kominsky Method – his Romancing the Stone co-star Kathleen Turner. Variety reports the actress has signed on to play Sandy’s (Douglas) ex-wife and mother of his daughter Mindy (Sarah Baker) for one episode.
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Nickelodeon’s Kids’ Choice Awards 2019 will feature appearances by Ariana Grande, Adam Sandler, Chris Pratt, Jason Sudeikis, Noah Centineo, Lana Condor, Joey King, Liza Koshy, Paris Berelc, Caleb McLaughlin, Kiernan Shipka, Ally Brooke, Josh Peck, Lilly Singh and David Dobrik, along with cast members from Disney’s Aladdin, Shazam! and Dora and the Lost City of Gold. Hosted by DJ Khaled, the ceremony will be broadcast live on Saturday, March 23 at 8p from the Galen Center in Los Angeles.
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CMT will live stream the 2019 Country Music Hall of Fame inductees announcement on Monday, March 18 at 10a. Reba McEntire is set to host the event.
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Jupiter Entertainment inked an overall co-production deal with veteran producer Chris Deaux (Trading Spaces) and his Two Fifteen West Entertainment. Under the pact’s terms, Deaux will create, develop and produce unscripted programming to be co-produced by Jupiter in the U.S. as well as internationally.
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NBC greenlit two entertainment competition series to air this summer. Songland, which bows Tuesday, May 28 at 10p, centers on up-and-coming songwriters mentored by three music producers. The concept hails from Eurythmics co-founded Dave Stewart, The Voice producer Audrey Morrissey and director Ivan Dudynsky. Meanwhile, Bring the Funny, set to premiere Tuesday, July 9 at 10p, features comics vying to make audiences laugh for a chance to receive a $250,000 prize.
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Janet Root’s Nutopia and Plan B Entertainment are joining forces to bring the Atlas Obscura phenomenon to television with a docuseries of the same title. The project, which is currently in development, is inspired by Atlas Obscura’s overall mission of drawing out stories of the people, food and culture behind the world’s most unusual places.
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Robert Carlyle (Trainspotting, Once Upon A Time) and Victoria Hamilton (The Crown) are set to star in a British political drama Cobra for Sky. Catherine the Great producer New Pictures is behind the series, which explores what happens in the corridors of power during a national emergency. Production has already begun with a fall launch expected.
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Bravo Media expands its home and design programming with competition series Best Room Wins, premiering Thursday, May 2 at 9:30p. Each episode challenges two top interior designers to create luxury looks for less for couples in desperate need of a room makeover.
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Rachael Ray’s 30 Minute Meals is back on Monday, April 1 at 12p on Food Network. The new season features 30 episodes airing over 30 days.
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Comedy Central’s Tosh.0 heads into its 11th season on Tuesday, March 19 at 10p, immediately followed by The Jim Jefferies Show, returning for its third season, at 10:30p.
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Queen Sugar returns for its fourth season on Wednesday, June 12 at 9p on OWN.
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Double Shot at Love with DJ Pauly and Vinny premieres Thursday, April 11 with back-to-back episodes on MTV. Series features 20 contestants facing off against each other in hopes of winning the love of the Jersey Shore Family Vacation stars.
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Amazon slotted Friday, June 14 as the second season premiere date for Absentia, the thriller starring and executive produced by Stana Katic (Castle). All 10 episodes will debut to Prime members in the US, UK, Germany, Australia, Austria, India, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Singapore, South Korea and other select territories globally.
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Netflix set Friday, May 3 for the premiere of animated series Tuca & Bertie, starring Tiffany Haddish and Ali Wong. Project centers around the friendship of two 30-year old bird women (Haddish and Wong).
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Michael Buble returns to NBC on Wednesday, March 20 at 10p with buble!, his seventh music special on the network.
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Rome’s Chariot Superstar offers an account of the life of Flavius Scorpus and the racing contests he and other champions entered in the Circus Maximus arena. Two-hour special airs Sunday, April 21 at 8p on Smithsonian Channel.
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AXS TV introduces four-part festival series, 80s in the Sand, hosted by Downtown Julie Brown, Mark Goodman, Richard Blade and Alan Hunter and featuring appearances by Bret Michaels, Sebastian Bach, Taylor Dane, Berlin and others, on Sunday, April 7 at 8p. In addition, The Big Interview with Dan Rather returns for its seventh season on Tuesday, April 16 at 8p with guest Steve Perry, followed by Docs That Rock at 9p.
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Following a linear special last November ABC digital original series More in Common is set to launch a second broadcast compilation on ABC Owned Television Stations beginning Saturday, March 16.
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Child actor Seth Carr (Bosch, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Black Panther) was cast as a series regular on Netflix’s Free Rein… Asha Kamali (Milk & Honey) booked a recurring role on FOX’s Star… David DeSantos (The Rookie) landed a recurring role on the fourth season of TNT drama Animal Kingdom.
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On the pilot front, Halston Sage (The Orville) was set as a series regular on FOX drama pilot Prodigal Son…Courtney Grosbeck (Parenthood) nabbed a series regular role on NBC’sLincoln… Elias Koteas (Chicago PD) landed a series regular role on Syfy’s AI drama Cipher.
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Some 30 million unique viewers watched all or part of CBS News’ broadcasts featuring CBS This Morning co-host Gayle King’s interview with R. Kelly and the two women who live with him. Videos from King’s interviewers generated nearly 40 million streams across CBS News Digital platforms and other digital channels including YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. In addition, Friday’ s one-hour special The Gayle King Interview with R. Kelly delivered a time-period winning 6.60 million Live+SD viewers and was the #1 program of the night among A18-49 and A25-54.
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UPtv launched The Librarians series on Wednesday to an average audience of 195,000 HHs, driving UPtv’s strongest Wednesday night since 2014.
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2019 IHEART RADIO AWARDS – WINNER’S LIST
https://www.eonline.com/news/1022556/iheartradio-awards-2019-winners-the-complete-list
MOVIES
Captive State – John Goodman, Ashton Sanders, Jonathan Majors, Machine Gun Kelly, Vera Farmiga, Madeline Brewer, Kiki Layne, Kevin J. O’Connor
Five Feet Apart – Haley Lu Richardson, Cole Sprouse, Moises Arias, Kimberly Hebert Gregory, Parminder Nagra, Claire Forlani, Emily Foxler, Gary Weeks
Wonder Park – Jennifer Garner, Matthew Broderick, John Oliver, Mila Kunis, Kenan Thompson, Ken Jeong, Norbert Leo Butz, Brianna Denski
The Aftermath (Limited Release) – Keira Knightley, Alexander Skarsgard, Jason Clarke, Martin Compston, Flora Li Thiemann, Kate Phillips, Jannik Schumann, Fionn O’Shea
The Hummingbird Project (Limited Release) – Jesse Eisenberg, Alexander Skarsgard, Salma Hayek, Michael Mando, Johan Heldenbergh, Ayisha Issa, Mark Slacke, Sarah Goldberg
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