FIRST LOOK
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ON TELEVISION (FRIDAY 5/10/19)
ABC: Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Premiere) at 8pm
SHOWTIME: Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men (Premiere) at 9pm
CBS: MacGyver (Finale) at 8pm
CBS: Blue Bloods (Finale) at 10pm
FOX: Last Man Standing (Finale) at 8pm
FOX: The Cool Kids (Finale) at 8:30pm
FOX: Proven Innocent (Finale) at 9pm
(SATURDAY 5/11/19)
NBC: Saturday Night Live – Host: Emma Thompson, Musical Guest: Jonas Brothers at 11:30pm
(SUNDAY 5/12/19)
HGTV: Beach Hunters (Premiere) at 9pm & 9:30pm
SHOWTIME: Our Cartoon President (Premiere) at 8pm
ABC: Shark Tank (Finale) at 10pm
E!: Very Cavallari (Finale) at 10pm
FOX: The Simpsons (Finale) at 8pm
FOX: Bob’s Burgers (Finale) at 8:30pm
FOX: Family Guy (Finale) at 9pm
PBS: Unforgotten on Masterpiece (Finale) at 10pm
STARZ: Now Apocalypse (Finale) at 9pm
CBS renewed six additional drama series and two news programs for the 2019-20 season. Latest dramas to make the cut are SEAL Team, S.W.A.T., Madam Secretary, Bull, Hawaii Five-0 and MacGyver; news shows 60 Minutes and 48 Hours will also be back, bringing the total renewal tally thus far to18 series.
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Lots of news from yesterday’s Fox investor day. The network is bringing production of its hit series The Masked Singer in-house, said Fox Corp. entertainment chief Charlie Collier, under the new Fox Alternative Entertainment division. The move, which sees Endemol Shine exiting production for the North American incarnation, will bring down the budget for season 2, Collier said. He applauded the series as another risky programming bet that paid off for Fox, noting, “Technically, Masked Singer could have ended up on any platform but you have to note that it didn’t.”
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Although Collier assured Fox is not looking to morph into a sports-centric network like ESPN, Fox Sports is making a big new sports wager. The company is entering the legalized sports betting arena “ambitiously, aggressively, but also responsibly,” division chief Eric Shanks said yesterday. Fox Bet, in partnership with Canadian gambling outfit The Stars Group, will enable those in states given the green light by the Supreme Court to wager, the ability to bet on live games it airs and will be up and running by football season, Shanks assured.
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IFC Center announced the lineup for the third annual Split Screens Festival, May 29-June 3 at the IFC Center in NY. Among honors, Janet Mock, writer, producer and director of FX’s Pose will receive the Vanguard Award.
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truTV unveiled its 2019-20 programming slate, which includes greenlights for its first animated series, This Functional Family from comedian Jo Koy, and new series Game Changers (working title) from Clayton English and Noah Gardenswartz. The network also ordered a third season of At Home with Amy Sedaris, and announced new seasons of Laff Mobb’s Laff Tracks and The Carbonaro Effect, plus additional episodes of Adam Ruins Everything, all slated to launch later this year.
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Netflix inked a first-look deal with The Umbrella Academy producer Dark Horse Entertainment, with Dark Horse’s Mike Richardson, Keith Goldberg and Paul Schwake signed on to produce. The deal gives Netflix first rights of refusal for both film and TV projects.
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Netflix inked an overall multiyear deal with Mexican director Manolo Caro, who created dramedy The House of Flowers (La Casa de las Flores). He’ll develop and produce new projects, first of which is Alguien Tiene Que Morir (Someone Has To Die), a three-part miniseries set in Spain in the ‘50s that follows a family’s travails when a young man’s parents summon him home to introduce him to his future bride and he brings with him Lazaro, a mysterious ballet dancer.
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FX is on for the BBC’s three-part adaptation of Charles Dickens iconic A Christmas Carol. Produced by Ridley Scott’s Scott Free, Tom Hardy’s Hardy Son & Baker and FX Productions, series will bow on the network in December. The two broadcasters previously collaborated on Taboo. The Dickens reboot, starring Guy Pearce, is written by Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight and is directed by Nick Murphy (The Awakening).
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A trailer for season 2 of Spike Lee’s Netflix series She’s Gotta Have It is out and previews Nola Darling grappling with her newfound success as she navigates her journey of self-discovery. All nine eps of the second season will be released May 24.
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New Jordan Klepper docuseries Klepper debuts this week on Comedy Central and will air Thursdays at 10:30p. The former host of The Opposition for the network this time around is engaged in the kind of field work he was known for during his time at The Daily Show.
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Season 3 of Hulu drama Harlots will debut Wednesday, July 10. Set against the backdrop of 18th century Georgian London, Harlots continues to follow the fortunes of the Wells family a year after the dramatic events of season 2.
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Starz announced the first chapter of its series Power will wrap at the conclusion of season 6, slated to play out over 15 episodes beginning Sunday, August 25. Season 6 will also feature the directorial debut of Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson with episode 603.
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ABC will air 90-minute primetime event Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear’s All in the Family and The Jeffersons on Wednesday, May 22 at 8p.
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Nat Geo partnered with Wondery to produce a companion podcast for The Hot Zone. “American Epidemics” will explore disastrous outbreaks in US history, and feature exclusive behind-the-scenes content from the making of series about the Ebola outbreak. Podcast launches today, May 10, leading up to the Monday, May 27 premiere of The Hot Zone.
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Tom Hanks will join Savannah Guthrie to co-host an hour of NBC News’ Today on Thursday, May 23 live from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The day’s 8a hour is being billed as a nod to former Sen. Elizabeth Dole’s Hidden Heroes organization, which supports military caregivers, and also will boost NBC’s first broadcast of the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday, May 26.
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Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus: The Final Farewell will premiere on AXS TV on Monday, May 27 at 8p. Filmed in 2017, doc provides a rare glimpse into America’s first live entertainment franchise as it prepares for the last performances of an unprecedented run.
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Amazon Prime Video set June 4 for the premiere of newly reunited Jonas Brothers doc Chasing Happiness, which promises never-before-seen footage of the Bros from their early days to their stardom and subsequent breakup.
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Telemundo Deportes released its game broadcast schedule for the Women’s World Cup, which includes all 52 matches airing live, including 21 matches on Telemundo. Universo will telecast 24 matches and seven will exclusively air on the TD app. In addition, all matches will be livestreamed in Spanish via the Telemundo Deportes and NBC Sports apps. Coverage begins Friday, June 5.
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Antenna TV is staging a Father’s Day tribute to Father Knows Best with its Father Knows Best 65th Anniversary Father’s Day Marathon, June 16 from 5a-10p.
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Universal Kids is developing two new unscripted series. Top Chef Junior: Remix is a spinoff from Top Chef franchise producer Magical Elves; Create the Escape, created by Universal Kids, is an escape-room construction competition where a host and design experts will assist the kids in transforming their escape room concepts into reality.
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Netflix is adding StoryBots to its corral of kids brands. The streaming company purchased the Emmy-winning brand created by Gregg and Evan Spiridellis, with plans to expand the property and its characters through entertainment and educational content. Ask The StoryBots, a Netflix original animated series that started streaming in 2016, has amassed a significant audience on the service.
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A new season of Thomas & Friends chugs on to Nick Jr. Saturday, May 18, at 9:30a. Season 23 includes 20 new eps, plus three new specials, in which Thomas visits new countries, including Italy, Brazil, China, India and Australia for the first time.
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As a part of Sesame Street’s yearlong 50th anniversary celebration, Sesame Workshop is launching collaborations with a host of mompreneurs. In the coming weeks, Lauren Moshi, ezpz, Milk Snob, Baked by Melissa, and Paul & Joe will launch fresh interpretations of the Sesame Street characters within their niche businesses.
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Audible and Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine are co-producing three audio memoirs exclusively for the Audible platform. The projects all are first-person narratives from women – music industry veteran Sophia Chang, Judge Rosemarie Aquilina and comedian/activist Maysoon Zayid – and will be available Amazon-owned Audible in late 2019/early 2020.
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Netflix ordered an Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt one-off interactive comedy special, set to debut in 2020. Viewers will be able to make choices on behalf of the characters from the series and travel down different story lines, with different jokes. The fourth and final season of the regular series landed in January.
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In advance of ABC’s May 22 primetime special saluting Norman Lear, getTV will air 30 eps of his original groundbreaking ‘70s comedy series All in the Family every night May 13-17 beginning at 7p. The show originally aired from January 12, 1971 to April 8, 1979 and won 22 Emmys.
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In an opinion piece published by the New York Times, Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes says Mark Zuckerberg, his former partner, college classmate and Facebook CEO, holds “unchecked power” that goes “far beyond that of anyone else in the private sector or in government.” Hughes, who liquidated his shares in the social network in 2012 and says that he doesn’t invest directly in any social media companies, says Facebook has become a monopoly that should be broken up. Among other musings, Hughes in the piece proposes Facebook voluntarily or by force reverse its acquisitions of Instagram and Whatsapp. He further advises the US government create an agency to regulate tech companies like Facebook.
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Back in the land of Zuckerberg, Facebook launched a new Birthday Stories feature enabling users to create and share multimedia birthday greetings with a new selection of greetings and tunes. Among newly added songs are “Birthday” by the Beatles; “In Da Club” by 50 Cent, “It’s My Birthday” by will.i.am, “Happy Birthday, Sweet Sixteen” by Neil Sedaka and “Happy Birthday” by Stevie Wonder.
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Peyton Elizabeth Lee (Andi Mack) landed the lead and Skylar Astin is among the ensemble cast in original movie Secret Society of Second Born Royals, a contemporary princess story for Disney+… Dustin Nguyen, who recurs as Zing in season 1 of Cinemax’s Warrior, has been promoted to series regular for the second season. Also, Chen Tang, Celine Buckens and Miranda Raison are in as regular cast members, and Maria Elena Laas will recur… Levy Tran is promoted to series regular for season 4 of CBS’ MacGyver.
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Discovery nets had a big April. Among highlights, Discovery Channel claimed half of cable’s top 10 series among M25-54 with Street Outlaws, Deadliest Catch, Gold Rush: Parker’s Trail, Diesel Brothers and Gold Rush: Dave Turin’s Lost Mine… HGTV finished April as the No. 4 cable net among W25-54 and No. 9 among A25-54… Food Network ranked No. 6 in Prime and No. 3 in Total Day for the month, and ID again was the top ad-supported cable net in Total Day for W25-54, and ranked third among A25-54.
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MOVIES
Pokemon Detective Pikachu – Ryan Reynolds, Justice Jesse Smith, Kathryn Newton, Bill Nighy, Ken Watanabe, Chris Geere, Suki Waterhouse, Josette Simon, Rita Ora
The Hustle – Anne Hathaway, Rebel Wilson, Alex Shrp, Dean Norris, Ingrid Oliver, Nicholas Woodeson, Douggie McMeekin
Poms – Diane Keaton, Jacki Weaver, Celia Weston, Alisha Boe, Charlie Tahan, Rhea Perlman, Phyllis Somerville, Pam Grier
Tolkien – Nicholas Hoult, Lily Collins, Colm Meaney, Derek Jacobi, Anthony Boyle, Patrick Gibson, Tom Glynn-Carney, Craig Roberts
All Is True (Limited Release) – Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, Lydia Wilson, Hadley Fraser, Jack Colgrave Hirst, John Dagleish, Sean Foley, Ian McKellen
The Professor And The Madman (Limited Release) – Mel Gibson, Sean Penn, Natalie Dormer, Jennifer Ehle, Jeremy Irvine, Ioan Gruffudd, Adam Fergus, Aidan McArdle
NYC STREET FAIRS – MANHATTAN
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http://nycstreetfairs.com/schedule-of-festivals/
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NYC STREET FAIRS – BROOKLYN, QUEENS, BRONX, AND STATEN ISLAND
https://socialeyesnyc.com/manhattan/nyc-street-fairs-festivals-parades/
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