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DISCOVERY: Expedition Unknown (Premiere) at 9pm
DISCOVERY: Mummies Unwrapped (Premiere) at 10:13pm
ID: Homicide In The City (Premiere) at 10pm
ID: The Last 24 (Premiere) at 11pm
VICELAND: Dark Side of the Ring (Premiere) at 9pm
POP: Schitt’s Creek (Finale) at 10pm
FX Networks snapped up off-network rights to Fox series Family Guy, starting with season 16 (2017-18). The animated comedy launches on FXX on April 16, and will air Tuesdays (9-11p), Thursdays (12-1a) and Sundays (7-9p), as well as on new corporate sib Freeform in once-a-week, hour-long blocks starting April 17.
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Sara Gilbert, creator and exec producer of CBS daytimer The Talk, is leaving the show at season’s end. The mother of three and producer and star of ABC’s The Conners explained during yesterday’s show that she realized she could not “do it all.” The announcement comes seven months after Julie Chen left in the wake of her husband Les Moonves’ stepping down as CEO of CBS.
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NBC’s The Voice is switching it up with a new round called the Live Cross Battles. Coaches Kelly Clarkson, John Legend, Adam Levine and Blake Shelton will each select one artist from their team to compete against an artist from an opposing team in a Live Cross Battle performance, with America’s voters deciding the winners. Live Cross Battles begins Monday, April 15 at 8p.
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Sixty nominees for the Peabody Awards, honoring compelling and empowering stories in broadcasting and digital media during 2018, were selected from more than 1,200 entries from television, radio/podcasts. Thirty winners selected from among the nominees will be announced beginning next week; nominees will be celebrated on Saturday, May 18 in NYC. For a list of nominees, go here.
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The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced the timetable for the 77th Annual Golden Globe Awards, which will air Sunday, January 5 on NBC. First date to put on the calendar: submission website opens Monday, July 15.
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Actress Lori Loughlin (Fuller House) and her husband Mossimo Giannulli were among the parents indicted on Tuesday in the college cheating scandal. The defendants are charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud and money laundering.
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Meanwhile, the premiere date for Netflix movie Otherhood, starring another actress embroiled in the cheating scheme, Felicity Huffman, has been postponed. The comedy had been scheduled to start streaming April 26; Huffman pled guilty on Monday. Huffman also appears in Netflix limited series When They See Us, based on the true story of the Central Park Five, but there has been no change in that May 31 launch date.
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Apple ordered limited series Lisey’s Story from J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions and Warner Bros. Television. Thriller stars Julianne Moore as a widow dealing with repressed memories about her late husband.
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Discovery also ordered Rob Riggle: Global Investigator (w/t), following the actor, comedian and retired Marine criss-crossing the globe in hopes of solving some of the world’s greatest mysteries. Series is produced for by Will Packer, Will Packer Media, Anomaly Entertainment, and Haunted Steel Mill in association with Hazmat Productions.
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ID gave the green light to The Whole Truth with Sunny Hostin (wt), following Senior Legal Correspondent for ABC News and former federal prosecutor Hostin as she explores the stories behind controversial homicides. “She is the ultimate triple threat: a great journalist, top prosecutor and a woman whose personal background gives her special insight and compassion into these tragic stories,” said Henry Schleiff, Group President of ID, Travel Channel, Destination America and AHC. “This unique constellation of skills, experience and character along with her advocacy for those who are most vulnerable, is at the heart of this series.” Show launches on ID in 4Q19.
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Season two of Showtime animated comedy series Our Cartoon President arrives Sunday, May 12 at 8p, with an animated appearance from Queer Eye’s Jonathan Van Ness.
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Director Jason Winer, EP on ABC’s Single Parents and CBS’s Life in Pieces, inked a new overall deal with 20th Century Fox Television. Winer and his Small Dog Picture Company will develop, executive produce and direct projects.
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Brother and sister Celine and Fabien Cousteau carry on their family’s legacy of underwater adventure in four-episode Legends of the Deep, debuting Sunday, June 9 at 9p on Science Channel.
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FX’s Pose returns with the first of ten new episodes on Sunday, June 9 at 9p. Season two flashes forward in time to 1990, as the AIDS crisis worsens and the reaction from a group of activists reaches a fever pitch.
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In more FX news, New York Times docu-series The Weekly makes its debut Sunday, June 2 at 10p, with next day premieres on Hulu. Series follows Times journalists investigating pressing issues of the day.
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TLC is adding to its 90 Day Fiance franchise with The Family Chantel, premiering Monday nights in July. Fan faves Pedro and Chantel, hot off their upcoming appearance on 90 Day Fiance: Happily Ever After?, will anchor the real-life drama.
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OWN’s The Haves and the Have Nots is back for season six on Tuesday, May 7 at 9p. Prepare for more scandal, destruction and tragedy.
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Season six of Younger arrives on TV Land Wednesday, June 12 at 10p. The Darren Star show has been the #1 series on ad-supported cable for two consecutive years among W18-49 and W25-54.
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In new Discovery and Science Channel series Uncharted (wt), urban explorer Justin Fornal will use detailed historical maps along with high tech imaging to investigate mysteries that have remained elusive to others. Series is set to premiere in 4Q19.
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High Fidelity, a drama inspired by the 1995 novel and 2000 film, is moving from upcoming streaming service Disney+ to Hulu. “As the series’ creative evolved, our Disney+ team, collectively with ABC Signature, recognized that the show would be better suited for another platform,” said Agnes Ghu, SVP, Content, Disney+. Disney’s recent acquisition of Fox assets gave it a controlling stake in Hulu.
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As it celebrates 25 years on the air, TCM will showcase popular programing from the TCM vault including six TCM originally produced special, among them Robert Osborne’s Best of Private Screenings and Live From The TCM Classic Film Festival: Norman Lloyd, as well as double features of The Best of The Essentials. The net will also air a two-week special primetime tribute with 25 of TCM’s biggest fans joining TCM host Ben Mankiewicz as guest programmers.
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REVOLT and AT&T announced the launch of multi-city cultural event REVOLT Hip Hop Summit, a multi-city cultural event inspired by the former REVOLT Music Conference. The re-imagined summit will serve as an immersive experiential opportunity, offering young people real-life networking experience. AT&T joins REVOLT as a co-creator and exclusive presenting sponsor to help expand reach. “Now more than ever we need to own our culture,” said REVOLT Chairman Sean “Diddy” Combs. “At the REVOLT Hip Hop Summit we will empower young people with sessions on the issues they care about.”
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In its effort to thwart the bad guys, Twitter cut the number of accounts users can follow per day from 1000 to 400. “To prevent spam and manipulation of follow relationships and to ensure site reliability, there are technical limits regarding how many Twitter accounts you are able to follow,” said the company, which is also putting into place follow ratios.
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In celebration of Game of Thrones, the number one series on Xfinity On Demand, Comcast has launched an immersive destination on Xfinity X1 in partnership with HBO that includes every episode, character recaps, season wrap-ups, behind-the-scenes interviews, extra web content, and more.
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Billy Crystal and John Goodman will be back as Mike and Sulley for Disney+ animated series Monsters at Work…Richard E. Grant (Can You Ever Forgive Me?), Sally Field and Eve Lindley (Mr. Robot) will star opposite Jason Segal in AMC anthology series Dispatches From Elsewhere… Donald Trump ex Marla Maples will appear in upcoming HBO comedy The Righteous Gemstones.
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Hallmark Channel had its highest-rated and most-watched quarter in 1Q19 outside of holidays since its 2001 launch. In addition, on weekends in Total Day, Hallmark Channel is ranking as the highest-rated and most-watched network across all of cable.
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In syndication, Live with Kelly and Ryan (2.1, down -5%) lost ground without co-host Kelly Ripa for five days, but still finished second for the fifth week in a row. Ellen DeGeneres (new season low 1.7, down -11%) declined with encore episodes, while Wendy Williams (1.5), Maury (1.4) and Steve Harvey’s Steve (1.3) held last week’s numbers. Steve rose 20% in the W25-54 demo.
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Killing Eve hit a series high 1.2 million viewers and 327,000 among A18-49 with its season two premiere on Sunday. Simulcast on BBC America and AMC, the drama was up +67% from its previous viewer high, and up +99% in the demo.
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Thursday’s season three premiere of Mysteries of the Abandoned scored Science Channel its highest rating in primetime since March 29, 2016. The two-hour premiere saw an +82% increase over the March 2018 season two premiere with A25-54, and its 648,000 total viewers made it the most watched episode in in series history.
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Emmy Award-winning ABC News producer Alexa Valiente died April 5. She was 27. ABC said Valiente had been facing health issues for several months. “She was known for her infectious laugh and one-of-a-kind personality that stretched far beyond the walls the newsroom,” wrote colleague Kelly McCarthy.
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