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FOOD NETWORK: The Flay List (Premiere) at 10:30pm
ID: Dead of Night (Finale) at 9pm
UP TV: Bringing Up Bates (Finale) at 9pm
Discovery yesterday hosted its NY Upfront at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, with CEO David Zaslav, chief US advertising sales officer Jon Steinlauf, chief lifestyle brands officer Kathleen Finch and chief brand officer for Discovery & Factual Nancy Daniels touting the company’s premium ad solutions and 2019-20 content portfolio for Discovery Channel, HGTV, Food Network, TLC, Investigation Discovery, OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network, Animal Planet, MotorTrend, Travel Channel and Science Channel. “TV remains the most powerful storytelling and brand-building medium, but consumers face an avalanche of content that’s not commercial friendly,” noted Steinlauf. “Sports is expensive, and news can be polarizing, but we’ve proven time and again that our compelling, real-life programming provides the safe and engaging environment that works for advertisers.” Check out more Discovery news throughout today’s edition.
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Discovery and Magnolia, the lifestyle brand led by Chip and Joanna Gaines, made their joint media venture official. The company, to be named soon, will comprise a linear television network and TV Everywhere app to be unveiled in summer 2020, as well as a subscription streaming service to debut at a later date. The Gaineses will serve as chief creative officers of the company, and current HGTV president Allison Page will serve as president. Next summer, Discovery’s DIY Network, currently in more than 52 million US homes, will be renamed for the channel, which will feature primarily long-form programming around topics including community, home, garden, food, wellness, entrepreneurialism and design. The network also will be home to the complete library of Fixer Upper, which premiered on HGTV in 2013 and was one of the highest-rated series on the network during its four-year run.
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ABC is going all-in on its Bachelor franchise this summer, extending the dating shows all summer long. The Bachelorette returns for season 15 on Monday, May 13 at 8p, one week after a reunion special airs in the time slot, then season 5 of Bachelor in Paradise kicks off in the block beginning July 29. The latter series initially had been set to launch Wednesday, August 7.
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Additionally, ABC will expand its slate of game shows to three nights per week during the summer months: Press Your Luck and Card Sharks will debut back-to-back Wednesday, June 12 beginning at 8p, and mini golf competition Holey Moley and cooking competition Family Food Fight will bow in succession Thursday, June 20 beginning at 8p. Season 5 of Celebrity Family Feud and seasons 4 of both The $100,000 Pyramid and To Tell the Truth return Sunday, June 9, beginning at 8p, and season 4 of Match Game hits June 12 at 10p. The network will also debut new series Reef Break on June 20, and set July 10 for The 2019 ESPYs.
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Don Mischer Productions and Done+Dusted will co-produce the 71st Emmy Awards, slated to air live Sunday, September 22 on Fox.
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Long-running Hallmark Channel series When Calls the Heart, whose season 6 has been sidelined since March 17 when now-former star Lori Loughlin was first indicted in the college scandal, will return May 5 with a two-night back-to-back premiere event.
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HBO ordered a third season of its Emmy-winning comedy series Barry, created by Alec Berg and Bill Hader, who stars in the series. Barry debuted its eight-ep season 2 on March 31.
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Timing is everything. Exactly one year after Fox Searchlight launched its TV division, the company has landed its first series order, for The Dropout, starring and exec-produced by Kate McKinnon and based on ABC News/ABC Radio’s podcast about disgraced entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes and her company, Theranos.
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Investigation Discovery gave a green light to Twisted Love (wt), a new original series exec-produced by Khloe Kardashian and the production team behind ID’s current Twisted Sisters series. The new six-parter explores what happens when love and affection spiral into a web of obsession and jealousy. Series is produced by 44 Blue Productions, a Red Arrow Studios company, and will premiere on ID in 2020.
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OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network ordered new eps of its Saturday-night unscripted series Ready to Love and Love & Marriage: Huntsville.
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Lots of news from upcoming streaming service Disney+, which is developing a limited adventure series based on the Marvel Hawkeye character, with Jeremy Renner attached to star. Renner has played the Marvel comics character since 2011.
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Disney+ also inked a two-year overall exclusive deal with Supper Club, the production team behind Netflix’s Chef’s Table and Ava DuVernay’s 13th, that includes culture-focused doc series Marvel’s 616 (wt), created in collaboration with Marvel New Media, plus doc Earthkeepers (wt), a joint venture from Supper Club and Wellworth Pictures, focused on conservationists and the planet’s most endangered species. Series will launch in late 2019; Supper Club will create additional nonfiction programming for Disney+ as well as other platforms and networks within The Walt Disney Co.
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Smithsonian Channel will put viewers in the passenger seat of the journey toward a cutting-edge outer space discovery with Black Hole Hunters, premiering Friday, April 12 at 9p.
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Veteran horror movie icon Robert Englund (A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise) resurrects the creepiest stories ripped straight from the headlines of yesteryear in Travel Channel’s new series Shadows of History (wt). The six-ep series will air later this year.
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From the producers of Animal Planet’s The Zoo and the upcoming The Aquarium comes The Zoo: San Diego (wt), a new series that goes behind the scenes at San Diego Zoo Global. Series features a range of animals including pandas, giraffes, Galapagos tortoises, koalas, elephants, mountain lions, two baby cheetahs that are learning how to be ambassadors for their species, as well as a flock of ostriches known as the “Spice Girls.”
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BET Networks will broadcast and live-stream coverage of deceased LA rapper Nipsey Hussle’s funeral services today (April 11) at 1p. BET Remembers Nipsey Hussle will pay homage to the Grammy-nominated rapper, entrepreneur and advocate for his native South Los Angeles.
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Filmmaker Jonathan Demme goes onstage and behind-the-scenes with music legend Neil Young to capture a two-night performance at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium in Docs That Rock – Neil Young: Heart of Gold, premiering Tuesday, April 30 on AXS TV.
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Worlds will collide once again when ABC airs a TGIT crossover promo on Thursday, May 2, featuring new eps of Grey’s Anatomy and Station 19 from 8-10p that includes a new episode of Grey’s Anatomy where Maggie treats one of Station 19’s own, and Jo learns a hard lesson. Meanwhile, when working with a family seeking asylum, Meredith makes a call that could jeopardize her career on Grey’s Anatomy.
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Couple of new specials from CBS News are on the way in May. CBS This Morning co-host Gayle King will anchor Meghan and Harry Plus One, marking the one-year anniversary of the marriage of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, along with the birth of their first baby, to be broadcast Friday, May 17 at 8p… Following on May 17 at 9p, CBS News’ Jane Pauley will anchor No Exit!, a one-hour primetime special exploring America’s love/hate relationship with our highways and byways, and how millions cope with an increasingly difficult daily commute.
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On July 20, 1969, the world watched Neil Armstrong’s giant leap for mankind. Two-hour special Apollo: The Forgotten Films, which will premiere this summer on Discovery and Science Channel, tells the unseen story behind the iconic images 50 years after the Apollo 11 moon landing. Special uses footage from a resources including NASA Research Centers, The National Archives, and news reports of the time.
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BROADWAY
Burn This with Adam Driver and Keri Russell is opening on Tuesday April 16, 2019.
https://ppc.broadway.com/shows/burn-this/
Hadestown is opening on Wednesday April 17, 2019
https://ppc.broadway.com/shows/hadestown/
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